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FLYING ON GARBAGE? FULCRUM BIOENERGY’S TRASH TALK
Update: In May 2024, Fulcrum closed down its plant in Reno, Nevada, and laid off most employees. For Then, in September 2024, they filed for bankruptcy. more information, click here to read article in The Chemical Engineer. Fulcrum-briefing-Feb-2024-1Download
STOP DRAX: EMERGENCY DEMO 5th MARCH 2024
Thank you for everyone who Joined us at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to demand an end to tree burning subsidies. Below is a selection of photos from the day and speeches...
Public Participation Obstructed In Rubber Stamp Review Hearing of Phillips 66 Biofuels Refinery Project in California
The saga of the repurposing of two of the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area to manufacturing liquid biofuels from high deforestation risk commodities like soy took another anti-democratic twist this week. Local authorities sped through a hearing on January 16,...
Government approval of Drax’s BECCS project will cause more forest destruction, campaigners warn
Government approval of Drax’s BECCS project will cause more forest destruction, campaigners warn For immediate release 16th Jan 2024 Secretary of State Claire Coutinho’s decision to approve Drax’s planning application for a carbon capture project, published today [1],...
LETTERS AND RESOLUTIONS
Letter by 200 scientists to US Congress opposing a proposal to promote logging and wood consumption, especially for biomass industry as a “natural climate change solution”, May 2020 Five Reasons the Earth’s Climate Depends on Forests, Statement by 40 Scientists, May...
NGO FACT SHEETS AND REPORTS
The Burning Question: Should the UK end tax breaks on burning wood for power?, Ember, June 2020 Climate finance for bioenergy and tree plantations is fueling conflicts with communities in Brazil, Federica Giunta and Oliver Munnion, FASE (Federação de Órgãos para...
INFORMATIVE WEBSITES ABOUT WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY
Biomess101: A project by Partnership for Policy Integrity which exposes the misinformation about wood-based bioenergy and counters it with fact-based information Climate and Forest: A website created by Protect the Forest, Sweden which analyses and rebuts...
RESOURCES ON (WOOD) BIOMASS FOR HEAT AND POWER
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS Climate Change Solutions: Sensible or Misguided?, The School of Public Policy Publications, University of Calgary, September 2019 - It concludes: "We argue that emissions from bioenergy should be treated in the same way as emissions...
Who We are
Biofuelwatch provides information and undertakes advocacy and campaigning in relation to the climate, biodiversity, land and human rights and public health impacts of large-scale industrial bioenergy. We are a small team of staff and volunteers based in Europe...
New Biofuelwatch briefing exposes Tuzla power plant’s planned biomass unit as a dead end
A new briefing by Biofuelwatch, launched today, has revealed that the planned use of biomass energy crops in a new unit at the Tuzla coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an unfeasible and environmentally risky endeavour. 21st December 2023 - The briefing is...
Short-rotation coppicing: No credible option for fuelling new biomass plants in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Click here to download the briefing Summary: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) is proposing to at least partly convert two coal plant units in Bosnia and Herzegovina to biomass. The company has stated that it would rely largely on Short-Rotation Coppicing (SRC), namely...
Plantažni zasadi kratke ophodnje: nema isplative opcije za razvoj novih postrojenja na plantažnu biomasu u Bosni i Hercegovini
Kliknite ovdje za preuzimanje Sažetak: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) predlaže da se dvije elektrane na ugalj u Bosni i Hercegovini u jednom dijelu konvertuju u postrojenja na biomasu. EPBIH je navela da će se u velikoj mjeri oslanjati na zasade iz plantaža kratke...
NEWSLETTER DEC 2023
Welcome to our final newsletter of 2023 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Click here to sign up to our mailing list 1. Reflection on the year 2. MP Pledge 3. Fundraising appeal 4....
Court Orders, Refinery Fires and Deforestation Drivers: California Push for Liquid Biofuels Ignores Red Flag Warnings
Despite a series of dramatic red flag warnings about public safety and climate impacts, compounded by errors in governance, California authorities continue to push hard for completing the conversion of refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area to operate as the largest...
Become an MP Outreach Volunteer
Do you want to create political change and are you passionate about stopping the disastrous subsidy regime that is using UK energy bills to fund dirty tree-burning power stations like Drax in Yorkshire and Lynemouth in Northumberland? We are looking for a number of MP...
NEWSLETTER NOV 2023
Welcome to our latest newsletter full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. 1.Global weekend of action against fossil fuels 2.International Day of action against Big Biomass 3. Take action with your...
International Day of Action Against Big Biomass 2023
We were delighted to take part in the International Day of Action Against Big Biomass on the 19th October. We were part of a network of over 200 NGOs globally taking action to highlight the negative environmental and social impacts of large scale biomass energy. ...