00:00So many people have pictures of Taylor Swift on the bedroom wall, but I've got pictures
00:19of cooling towers. I'm not even lying. I'm very proud to be part of DRAX. Anybody that
00:24knows me knows that I constantly go on about working here. I love the cooling towers. My
00:29news feed on my Facebook is absolutely covered in cooling tower pictures. I absolutely love
00:33DRAX and everybody says that I bleed turbine blue. My job role is to maintain, to carry
00:39out the repairs, to ensure that it can go into the future for another 50 years and do
00:43the job that it's planned to do. DRAX is really important to me and to my family. I live near
00:48the station, so I wake up in the morning and I see DRAX. My children, they go to school
00:52in DRAX Village. They all want to work here when I'm older. So I've been here 50 years
00:56now. We've come a long way from burning coal, so moving from coal to biomass, it's changed.
01:01So we're more than ready to be able to take on what's next and to be able to support the
01:05UK with energy. Yeah, DRAX isn't just a job to me. It's a really big part of my family
01:11and plenty of families that are in the community around here. It really is my life. I love
01:16our cooling towers too. I drive in every day. Immensely proud of what I see. Immensely proud
01:23of seeing the power station from the train on the way down to London. So I can totally
01:27get why you'd have a cooling tower on your wall. It is, for many people here, myself
01:33included, very much a vocation. So as we come into our half century here, we look back with
01:40pride at what's been achieved. We contribute over £358 million to the local economy. We
01:48are producing enough power for 4 million homes from using renewable biomass, converted
01:55over from using local Selby coal. But we also look forward to what our legacy will be, capturing
02:02carbon and putting that underground to lock it away forever in a direct reversal of fossil
02:08fuel use.
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