Biofuelwatch response to UK government consultation "Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): business models"
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Biofuelwatch is delighted to support the Global Climate Strike on Friday 20th September
On Friday 20th September, millions of people around the world will go on strike and join young climate protestors on the street to call on governments to take urgent climate action. Biofuelwatch is delighted to join the Global Climate Strike and we stand in...
Consultation response about Green New Deal for Europe
Biofuelwatch input into consultation on a Green New Deal for Europe
Objection to amended planning proposal for a waste and biomass gasification plant in Monmouthshire
Biofuelwatch planning objection to the amended proposal for a mixed waste and biomass gasifier at Trostrey Court Farm, Uskmouth, Monmouthshire
Joint Response to UK Decarbonisation Enquiry
Joint response to Treasury Committee Inquiry "Decarbonisation of the UK Economy and Green Finance" by Biofuelwatch, Partnership for Policy Integrity, Dogwood Alliance, Southern Environmental Law Center, Fern, & Natural Resources Defense Council
Objection to Lough Ree power station conversion
Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance and Friends of the Irish Environment have submitted objections to Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB)'s latest plan to convert another peat power station - Lough Ree, in Lanesborough - to run on biomass instead. FIE cited the...
Burned Screening and Q&A in Amsterdam, 27th July
Where? NieuwLand, Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 93-95, 1093 XN Amsterdam When? 7pm for a 7.30 pm start [add-this] What? "Burned - Are Trees the New Coal?" is an award-winning documentary that reveals the destruction of southern US forests for biomass energy, much of it...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter July 2019
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our latest newsletter 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 concerned...
Campaign resources
Do you ever wish you had a two-page info sheet to explain the basics of what’s wrong with biomass electricity and why we campaign about Drax Power Station? Well, now you have. Biomass fact sheet web view Biomass fact sheet print quality Drax fact sheet web view...
Drax wins award for…?
Last week, Drax Plc received a prize for “Green Innovation“ at the Humber Renewables Awards for its carbon capture efforts - despite the fact that no carbon is actually being stored at the power station. Drax announced last year that it would start trialling BioEnergy...
Open Letter to California Governor Newsom about California Tropical Forest Standard and Aviation
Click here to read the letter with full details of all signatories and with references [add-this] We write to express our concern about the dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector and the lack of a transparent and science-based plan for the...
Broad Coalition Sends Letter to California Governor, Urging Rejection of Controversial Global Aviation Climate Scheme
California Tropical Forest Standard endorsement would put California stamp of approval on dubious plan of global aviation industry to address climate damage with carbon offsets and biofuels for “carbon neutral growth” San Francisco, 19 June 2019 – A diverse coalition...
Please join The Time is Now mass lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies
Please join “The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People” and ask your MP to take urgent climate action by redirecting huge renewable energy subsidies from biomass burning to genuine renewables On Wednesday 26th June thousands of individuals and...
Please Join The Time is Now Mass Lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies – Information Page
Join "The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People" and urge your MP to demand that renewable energy subsidies be redirected from high-carbon biomass to true renewables. On Wednesday 26 June thousands of individuals and organisations will gather in...
Environmental campaigners protest against Humber Renewables Awards for UK’s single biggest CO2 emitter, Drax Plc.
Hull, 14th June 2019 – Last night, environmental campaigners greeted attendees of the 2019 Humber Renewables Awards ceremony [1] in Hessle, Hull with a banner protest against the presentation of one of the awards to Drax Plc, owners of the UK’s single biggest power...
Drax Plc: a terrible candidate for the Humber Renewables Awards
Drax Plc has been shortlisted in two categories for the Humber Renewables Awards. Such awards should be going to businesses that invest in clean and low-carbon renewable energy – not to the owners of the UK’s single biggest CO2 emitter! While Drax likes to present...
Open Letter to California State Assembly Opposing California Tropical Forest Standard
Click here to read Open Letter to Assembly Members Cristina Garcia and Eduardo Garcia ahead of the June 3rd Tropical Forest Standard Stakeholder Meeting Signed by Amazon Watch Asian Pacific Environmental Network System Change not Climate Change Biofuelwatch California...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter May 2019
Dear Biofuelwatch supporters, Welcome to our latest newsletter 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 concerned...