Leading environmental groups call for an end to UK subsidy programme for power plants relying on forests for fuel and highliht need for the Govenrment to invest in genuine renewables to meet net zero emissions target The UK government’s continued support for burning...
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Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business
Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks 2nd May 2019 - The Environmental Paper Network [1], Global Forest Coalition [2] and Biofuelwatch [3] have today issued a briefing to investors [4] that highlights the...
Risky Biomass Business: The reputational and financial risks of investing in forest biomass energy
Joint briefing to investors by the Global Forest Coalition, Environmental Paper Network and Biofuelwatch Click here to read the briefing. Summary: Investors in electricity generated from burning forest wood are facing increasing reputational risks, as well as facing...
Joint Report about Genetically Engineered American Chestnut trees
Biotechnology for Forest Health? The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Report by the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) and Biofuelwatch, written by Rachel Smolker and...
#AxeDrax protests outside Drax AGM, Drax Power Station and in Sheffield
A colourful and musical protest was held outside Drax Plc's AGM on 17th April 2019. Simultaneous banner protests took place outside Drax power station in Yorkshire and in Sheffield. Campaigners denounced Drax for burning more wood than the UK produces every year, for...
Protesters denounce Drax’s ‘major contribution to UK climate change emissions’ outside company AGM
Two solidarity protests held outside Drax Power Station in York and in Sheffield London, 17th April – Climate justice campaigners held a colourful and musical protest outside Drax Plc’s Annual General Meeting in London earlier today, denouncing the company’s power...
Press release: 96,000 call on Secretary of State to refuse permission for largest-ever UK gas power station
London, 4th April 2019 - A petition of over 96,000 signatures [1] was handed to the Office of Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark this morning, accompanied by an Open Letter [2] signed by 92 organisations – and by a...
Petition and Open Letter urge UK Government to stop Drax’s mega gas plans
A petition signed by over 96,000 people and an Open Letter signed by 92 environmental groups have been handed over to Greg Clark, Secretary of State at te Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The petition and letter urge Greg Clark to refuse...
BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal
A documentary about the burning of wood at an industrial scale for energy, "BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?" tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and blatant...
Joint response to European Commision consultation on high-ILUC biofuels
Joint response by Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch: "High and low Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC) - risks biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels", March 2019
Environmental groups from around the world urge French Government to ensure coal power plants are shut down, not converted to biomass
Paris, 28th February 2019 - An Open Letter by 46 environmental NGOs and networks from 19 countries (1) is being delivered to French Environment Minister, François de Rugy today, urging the government to rule out permission to convert Cordemais power station or any...
Joint response to European Commission consultation about action on deforestation and forest degradation
Joint response by Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch to European Commission consultation "Deforestation and forest degradation – stepping up EU action", February 2019
Biofuelwatch Newsletter February 2019
Dear supporters, welcome to Biofuelwatch's first newsletter of 2019. Apologies for a longer than usual gap between newsletters, we have all been busy. For news of what we're up to, read on... Contents 1. Subsidies...
BECCS: Discourse about unicorns descends into real-world farce
This month’s “breaking news” on BECCS: Small UK startup company to test some unproven new solvent nobody’s published anything about in order to help Drax put fizz into beer The ‘world’s first’ Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) ‘pilot project’ has...
Next biomass documentary screenings
“What we’re up against is that our economic system values forest destruction over forest protection, and at the end of the day that’s what we have to change.” – Danna Smith, Dogwood Alliance If you're new to the issues around large scale biomass, or are trying to...
Aviation biofuels made from wastes and residues cannot be scaled up, new report shows
Biofuelwatch report about aviation biofuel producer WorldEnergy boosts fears that large-scale biofuel use for aircraft would have to rely on palm oil 11th February 2019 - A new report [1] about aviation biofuels, published by the environmental NGO Biofuelwatch [2]...
How green and scalable are WorldEnergy’s aviation biofuels made from wastes and residues?
Click here to read Biofuelwatch’s report about WorldEnergy's aviation biofuels, sourced by KLM and United Airlines amongst others Executive Summary World Energy’s refinery in Paramount remains the world’s only regular producer of aviation biofuels, although it refuses...
Joint objection to permit extension and biomass conversion of West Offaly Power Station, Ireland
Letter by Dogwood Alliance and Biofuelwatch We are writing to you on behalf of Dogwood Alliance (dogwoodalliance.org), an NGO working to protect forests across the southern USA, and Biofuelwatch (biofuelwatch.net), an organisation that carries out research, advocacy...