Climate and Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders against acquisition of Pinnacle Pellets, as a new investigation reveals risk of Pinnacle pellet mills turning some of last remaining primary forests in Canada into wood pellets New maps show critical primary forests and...
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Biofuelwatch Joins Coalition in Demanding Exhaustive Environmental Review of San Francisco Bay Area Biofuel Refinery Project
A broad coalition of local, national and international organizations have together submitted comments on the initiation of the review process for a proposed biofuels refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area. The letter, facilitated and coordinated by expert legal staff...
Joint Letter to Drax Shareholders warning against proposed acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc.
Joint Civil Society letter to Shareholders of Drax Group PLC about the proposed acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc Recommendation: Vote AGAINST the resolution to approve the acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc by Drax Canadian Holdings Inc an...
Open letter against Albioma’s coal-to-biomass conversion plans on Réunion
Financial actors should not support the conversion from coal to biomass of Albioma in Réunion Open Letter signed by 19 French and international NGOs, March 2021 Click here to read (in French)
Swallowing Indonesia’s forests
Blog by Rachel Smolker New report reveals how Indonesia’s proposed food estate projects threaten social and environmental disaster of global concern. Read full report here in English Read full report here in Bahasa Read report summary in Bahasa Read report summary in...
Report about Germany’s Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project in Namibia
German development and climate finance project used to create biomass supply chain for German energy providers Click here to download the report And click here to read an open letter by 40 civil society organisations opposed to this project. An related article on a...
NEWSLETTER Feb 2021
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Important reading for anyone who wants to see meaningful responses to climate change and who is...
Critique of UNIQUE GmbH’s report “Greenhouse Gas Assessment of Bush Control and Biomass Utilization in Namibia”:
Background: Since 2013, the German government has been financing a development and climate finance project in Namibia called “Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation (BCBU)”. It is managed by the German Development Corporation, GIZ. Since 2019, the project’s focus has...
Open Letter to German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development regarding the GIZ project „Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation“ (BCBU)
Please click here to read the full letter with references and with the details of the 40 signatory organisations as well as scientists Open Letter to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr Gerd Müller, regarding the GIZ project „Bush Control...
Burned: are trees the new coal
Screening Wednesday 9th June at 19:30 -21:00 BST If you’re free on Wednesday 9th June from 19:30, please join Biofuelwatch, West Bristol Climate Action and Cut Carbon not Forests for an online screening of the award-winning documentary “Burned: are trees the new...
Podcasts
We are pleased to share podcasts from our colleague in California Gary on a range of topics which are related to Biofuelwatch's work. Click to listen to the KPFA Terra Verde podcast on Chile and California connections, very interesting history - recorded on 5th...
CALIFORNIA REFINERY SWITCH TO BIOFUELS NOT AS GREEN AS IT SOUNDS
By Gary Graham Hughes, February 2021 The Carquínez Strait is a wonder of powerful tide waters that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Sacramento-San Joaquín Delta. Every salmon born in the extensive Sacramento and Central Valley watersheds will make the journey...
Netherlands campaign against new biomass plant
Comite Schone Lucht starts a campaign against the new biomass plant of the (Swedish) energy company Vattenfall in Diemen. The biomass plant is planned for the heatnetwork of Amsterdam. It will be the biggest biomassplant in the Netherlands. Yearly 200.000 tonnes of...
NEWSLETTER December 2020
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our final update of the year. Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout the year. With your continued support, we will keep working to ensure we see meaningful responses to climate change and protection of forests and...
Negative Emissions Technologies: can they deliver?
A negative emission technology (NET) is a technological approach to removing greenhouse gases that have already been emitted into the atmosphere. That differs from “mitigation” which focuses on preventing emissions in the first place. Aside from concerns about how...
New Scottish Climate Change Plan relies on dangerous and unproven “negative emissions technologies”, environmental campaigners warn
Photo: Dogwood Alliance - clear-felled forest in theSouthern USA Edinburgh - 16th December 2020 Environmental campaign organisation Biofuelwatch warns that the Scottish Government’s updated Climate Change Plan for 2018-32, [1] published today, relies heavily on...
Dirty Wood Pellet Plant In California Redwood Region Raises Further Doubt About Biomass Sustainability Standards
The surreptitious installation of pollution controls at a controversial wood pellet manufacturing plant in Mendocino County on the North Coast of California has raised doubts about the failures of biomass and forest management sustainability standards to protect...
New report by NGOs in Estonia and Latvia shows wood pellets burned by Drax Power Station linked to forest degradation in their countries
Wood pellet use by Drax Plc in Yorkshire, together with bioenergy demand from other countries in Europe, is driving intensive clearcutting in protected forests in Estonia and Latvia, a new report reveals. Hidden inside a wood pellet: intensive logging impacts in...