Vermont Biomass Working Group Recommendations Threaten Public Health, Forests, Climate and Clean Energy Future. Joint press release by Biofuelwatch and Massachusetts Forest Watch
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Biofuelwatch opinion on the role of bioenergy and the meaning of “renewable” in a “Green Economy” – On the Road to Rio+20 Open Letter to DECC and the Scottish Government against ROCs for electricity produced from bioliquids, by ActionAid UK, Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Greenpeace, Sumatran Orangutan Society, War on Want and World Development Movement The U.S. EPA has just released its “2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Large Facilities.” Emissions from biomass are still not included in these national inventories. A “Request for Correction of Information”, submitted back in July 2010 by the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups remains entirely unaddressed. The EPA, unsure how to account for biogenic emissions under the “tailoring rule”, accepted public comments on the matter late last year, (Biofuelwatch submitted comments) and then meanwhile granted industry a three year exemption from reporting.
To access EPA’s GHG Reporting Program Data and Data Publication Too, click here. For background information about EPA’s GHG Reporting Program click here. For the EPA report ” Information on the U.S. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sources and Sinks”, click here. A Request for Correction to the EPA, submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity e and others can be found here.
The $6 billion Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit subsidy for corn ethanol expired at the end of 2011, but the Renewable Fuel Standard remains and will require 12 billion gallons of corn ethanol in 2012 alone. Click here for more information. Signed by 87 organisations worldwide
As the impacts of climate change escalate, efforts to develop new technologies and new approaches to reducing emissions are promoted. One proposal is to sequester carbon in soils using biochar. Biochar is essentially fine grained charcoal. Advocates claim that adding biochar to soils will store carbon safely away from the atmosphere for hundreds or even thousands of years, while boosting soil fertility and providing other benefits. What is the basis of these claims? Is biochar really a viable approach? This is the final version of a report first published in June 2011, and a substantially expanded update of our 2009 “Biochar for Climate Mitigation: Fact or Fiction”. It takes a critical look at the claims around biochar, reviews the science underlying the claims, provides an overview of what biochar advocates are pushing for in terms of policies and supports, and presents an outline of the companies involved. The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures Winnie Overbeek from the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) reports for Corporate Watch about the current situation regarding corporate and state land grabs for biomass monoculture plantations in Brazil. Submission to Rio Plus 20 Zero Draft, from: Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, Global Justice Ecology Project, EcoNexus, Biomass Accountability Project, Partnership for Policy Integrity, PT AirWatchers (Port Townsend, Washington) and Ozark Riverkeepers Network. November 1 2011 A “Green Economy” Cannot Run on Biofuels or Bioenergy Biofuelwatch Briefing about a proposed 100 MW biomass power station by RES Biomass Energy in North Blyth. |
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