UK biofuel and biomass campaign groups
Green Alternatives to Incineration Scotland (GAINS)
Scottish campaign for sustainable methods of waste management
www.gainscotland.org.uk/index.shtml
UK Without Incineration Network (UK WIN)
Network devoted to anti-incineration campaigning in the UK. UK WIN provides support and contacts to groups campaigning against waste incinerators.
LOCAL GROUPS
Blackrod and Horwich Environmental Action Group
Group campaigning against Blue NG’s/2OCs proposals for a biofuel power station in Blackrod, Bolton Council
Breathe Clean Air Group
Campaign against a biomass power station proposed by Peel Energy in Trafford
www.breathecleanairgroup.co.uk
Coedbach Action Team
Group which successfully campaigned against biomass power stations in Swansea and Coedbach and continues to work closely with other local groups against biomass power stations
Food not Fuel,London
London-based campaign group
No2 Shoreham Biofuel Power Station
Campaign against a proposed biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea, near Brighton
No Oil Palm Energy
Dorset-based campaign against W4B’s planned palm oil power station in Portland
No To Leith Biomass Plant
Campaign against Forth Energy’s proposed biomass power station in Leith, Edinburgh
No Southampton Biomass
Campaign against a biomass power station proposed by Helius Energy in Southampton
http://nosouthamptonbiomass.co.uk/
Port Talbot Residents Against Power Stations
Campaign against a planned biomass power station by Prenergy in Port Talbot
Say NO to North Blyth Biomass Station
Campaign against 100MW Power Station proposed in North Blyth
Wight Biomess
Campaign against 49.9MW Biomass Plant at Stag Lane, Newport
Yorkshire Against Biofuels
Campaign resources against Rocpower’s biofuel power station plans and activities in Yorkshire
NGOs
ActionAid
ActionAid is running a campaign against biofuel mandates.
Down to Earth, UK
“Down to Earth monitors and campaigns on the social and human implications of environmental issues in Indonesia.”
Econexus, UK
“Econexus offers a rigorous scientific critique of genetic engineering (GE) and genetically modified organisms,and more recently of agrofuels (biofuels), synthetic biology and other new technological applications.”
Gaia Foundation
www.gaiafoundation.org/content/agrofuels
US BIOMASS CAMPAIGN GROUPS
Biomass Accountability Project
Massachusetts-based campaign group
Energy Justice Network
The Energy Justice Network is a grassroots energy campaigning network which supports communities threatened by polluting energy and waste technologies. They take direction from their grassroots base and the Principles of Environmental Justice and advocate a clean energy, zero-emission, zero-waste future for all.
Floridians Against Incinerators in Disguise
http://gretnaflorida.biomess.us/
Massachussets Forest Watch
Massachusetts Energy Environment Alliance
No Biomass Burn
A grassroots coalition which aims to expose and confront the myth of sustainable biomass energy, based in Washington State
Partnership for Policy Integrity
“The Partnership for Policy Integrity uses science, policy analysis and strategic communications to promote integrity in public policy. To date our work has focused on biomass energy. ”
Save Americas Forests
Scottsburg Biomass
“a group of local citizens who currently are working against the building of the biomass power plant in Scottsburg, Indiana”
http://scottsburgbiomass.com/Home_Page.php
Stop Spewing Carbon
“The Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign is a grassroots effort to stop taxpayer subsidies for polluting, forest-burning biomass power incinerators in Massachusetts.”
http://www.stopspewingcarbon.com/
INTERNATIONAL
ETC Group
“Dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights.” Issues include synthetic biology/cellulosic ethanol.
Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab
A weblog set up by Grain with news reports about the global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit.
Food First – Institute for Food and Development Policy
“Food First analyses the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.”
Friends of the Earth International
Agrofuel campaign
Global Justice Ecology Project
“Global Justice Ecology Project explores and exposes the intertwined root causes of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic domination with the aim of building bridges between social justice, environmental justice and ecological justice groups to strengthen their collective efforts.”
http://globaljusticeecology.org
GM Watch
GM Soy is Toxic Soy
A campaign by La Soja Mata, supported by ASEED and Corporate Europe Observatory, which aims to raise awareness about the problems of GM soy and to stop GM soy being labeled as ‘responsible’.
Grain
“An international non-governmental organisation which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people’s control over genetic resources and local knowledge.”
La Soja Mata:
“Informs on human rights violations and enviornmental destruction due to the expansion of soy monocultures”
Rainforest Rescue
English-language website of Rettet den Regenwald
Stop-Agrocombustibles
Weblog by Guadalupe Rodriquez which documents the impacts of agrofuel production on the lives of local communities, food sovereignty and the environment in the South.
stop-agrocombustibles.nireblog.com (in Spanish)
Stop GE Trees
www.globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php
Via Campesina
World Rainforest Movement
“An international network of citizens’ groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world’s rainforests.”
RELATED CAMPAIGNS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES/REGIONS
Africa
African Biodiversity Network
Argentina
Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina
www.grr.org.ar (in Spanish)
Germany
INKOTA-network
German non-profit organisation which is campaigning against the agrofuel boom with public actions, information events, background materials and an online email action. Website in German.
Rettet den Regenwald
Charity/campaign group based in Germany “organising protest actions and email protests against rainforest destruction by oil companies. loggers and development projects, supporting NGOs in Africa, Ecuador and Indonesia, providing information”
Watch Indonesia!
“Working group for democracy, human rights and environmental protection in Indonesia and East Timor”, based in Berlin
www.watchindonesia.org/Index-engl.htm
Europe
Corporate Europe Observatory
“Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.”
Nicaragua
La Isla Foundation
Chronic Kidney Disease is extremely prevalent on sugar cane plantations – with an incidence of around 30% amongst women and 70% amongst men. ”La Isla Foundation is working with officials at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health (MINSA), Autonomous National University of Nicaragua-León (UNAN-León), and other institutions to attack the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) epidemic on all fronts.”
http://laislafoundation.org/La_Isla/Home.html
Nigeria
World Family
Nigerian website with articles about agrofuels and the push for an African Green Revolution (AGRA).
South Africa
African Centre for Biosafety
A non profit organisation, based in Johannesburg which provides information, research and policy analysis on genetic engineering , biosafety and biopiracy in Africa.
Timor-Leste
L’ao Hamutuk, Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis
La’o Hamutuk is a joint Timor-Leste-international organization that seeks to monitor and to report on the activities of the principal international institutions present in Timor-Leste as they relate to the physical and social reconstruction of the country. Their website gives information about various planned agrofuel developments in the country.