Aire valley power stations Aire valley power stations Aire valley power station may refer to one or all of: By the 1990s the collection of three power stations generated 20% of Britain's electricity, and contributed 56% of the Yorkshire and Humber regions greenhouse gas emissions, which was primarily CO (~2010). In 2006 the generating capacity was approximately 8 GW total (Ferrybridge C, 2 GW; Eggborough, 2 GW, Drax 4 GW). The power stations were built during the post-Beeching era, close to the Selby Coalfield which supplied them via Gascoigne Wood until the field's closure at the beginning of the 21st century. After the Selby
James Drax James Drax Sir James Drax (d. 1662) was a Barbados plantation owner who accumulated extraordinary wealth as a pioneer of the sugar trade in the English colonies. The Caribbean sugar plantations established by James Drax and those who followed his example would be at the epicenter of the growing British and French empires, helping to fuel economic growth and imperial expansion. James Drax was the son of William Drax, a gentleman of the village of Finham, in the parish of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. In the late 1620s, James Drax became one of the earliest English migrants to the island of Barbados: