Trees from clearcutting in Portuguese nature reserve found to have gone to Drax pellet supplier 21st March 2024 - A new video investigation by Biofuelwatch and the Portuguese NGO ZERO [1] reveals that the Pinewells pellet plant in Portugal, whose biggest customer is...
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Video expose of Portuguese pellet supplier of Drax
video investigation by Biofuelwatch and Portuguese NGO Zero shows impacts of drax's pellet supplier pinewells on pine forests, including on natura 2000 site A new video investigation by Biofuelwatch and the Portuguese NGO ZERO reveals that the Pinewells pellet...
International Day of Forests – 21st March 2024
What’s happening? The United Nations International Day of Forests (21st March) is a day to celebrate, and most importantly, protect our vital forests around the world. Yet the Government is subsidising the destruction of these forests by using our energy bills to fund...
Climate activists stage musical protest over Government proposals for new tree-burning subsidies
Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees Press Release For immediate release Climate justice campaigners from across the UK environmental movement gathered outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)1 in London today in a colourful and...
Pläne zur Ausweitung der Holzverbrennung für die Berliner Fernwärme
Gemeinsames Informationspapier, veröffentlicht von NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch, Greenpeace Berlin, BUND Landesverband Berlin, PowerShift und Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz Aktualisierte Version, Januar 2025 Zusammenfassung: Der Großteil des...
Ausweitung der Holzverbrennung in Berlin geplant – Umweltorganisationen veröffentlichen Infopapier und fordern Absage an geplante Holzheizkraftwerke
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von NABU, DUH, Robin Wood, biofuelwatch, BUND Berlin, Greenpeace Berlin, BBK und PowerShift Ausweitung der Holzverbrennung in Berlin geplant – Umweltorganisationen veröffentlichen Infopapier und fordern Absage an geplante Holzheizkraftwerke...
Joint response to UK government consultation about ‘Transitional Subsidies’ for Drax and Lynemouth Power stations
Joint Response by Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees to DESNZ consultation about Transitional Subsidies for large-scale biomass electricity plants (i.e. Drax and Lynemouth Power Stations)
New investigation shows Drax has sourced logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests for its pellet mills
28th February 2024 - A new investigation [1] published today by Conservation North, Biofuelwatch and Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition reveals that, throughout 2023, Drax routinely sourced whole logs from logging Primary and Old Growth Forests, including from...
Logging what’s left: How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests
Joint investigation into wood sourcing for Drax pellet mills in British Columbia by Conservation North, Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition and Biofuelwatch Drax Group Plc is a UK-based company that operates the world’s biggest biomass power station, and is also the...
NEWSLETTER FEB 2024
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2024 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Click below to share this newsletter! Sign up to our mailing list 1. Submit your consultation response 2. Call on your MP...
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...