Groups Demand Ireland Protect Forests & Our Climate Open Letter Calls on Ireland to Reject West Offaly Power Station extension and biomass conversion - for immediate release – 31st January 2019 - An Open Letter signed by 33 environmental NGOs objecting to biomass...
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Finland’s Neste set to drive aviation palm oil deforestation, new report shows
9th January 2019 - A report published by the environmental NGO Biofuelwatch [1] reveals that the Finnish biofuel and oil company Neste, which expects to become the world’s biggest producer of aviation biofuels in 2019 [2], relies heavily on palm oil, a leading cause...
Neste: The Finnish company preparing to put palm oil in aircraft fuel tanks
Click here to read Biofuelwatch's report about the Finish biofuel and oil company Neste and its aviation biofuel plans. [add-this] Executive Summary: Neste aims to become the world’s largest aviation biofuel producer in 2019 and to rapidly scale up its production...
Drax takeover of ScottishPower’s hydro and gas power assets is bad news for the climate, campaigners warn
Biofuelwatch warns that Drax’s acquisition of hydro assets could spell the end for ambitious Scottish scheme to expand Cruachan pumped storage plant, vital for running the grid on low-carbon renewable energy 21st December 2018 - With Drax shareholders set to approve...
Success: How a large, polluting biomass power plant in Grangemouth got stopped
Update: In March 2019, Falkirk Council rejected a planning application which would have extended planning consent. This means that there is now no planning consent that would allow a biomass power plant to be built at Grangemouth Port. On 19th October 2018, a subsidy...
Civil society groups reject the impact of an exponential growth of the Bioeconomy
Open Letter to the members of the BioFuture Platform, signed by 120 organisations from 40 countries. Click here for a referenced version with the list of signatories. Civil society groups reject the impact of an exponential growth of the Bioeconomy In recent...
Objection to Planning application related to a biomass gasification plant at Trostrey Court Farm, Monmouthshire
Biofuelwatch objection to a planning application related to a wood gasification plant at Trostrey Court Farm, Monmouthshire
Written Representation to Drax Re-Power planning inquiry
Biofuelwatch submitted this Written Representation to the Drax Re-Power planning inquiry Written Representation on Drax Repower from Biofuelwatch The Drax Re-Power planning documents are accessible on the Planning Insprectorate's website here, which included...
Response to Scottish Government Consultation about a National Investment Bank
Biofuelwatch Response to the Scottish Government Consultation on the Scottish National Investment Bank
The Dark Side of the Bioeconomy: Climate Catastrophe, Forest Destruction, and Human Rights Abuses
Over 120 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform” (November 7, 2018) - An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries today warns that the rapid global growth of the so-called bioeconomy poses a...
Over 120 groups from around the world denounce large scale forest biomass energy
Over 120 civil society organisations around the world expose the "biomass delusion" and call for an end for subsidies for burning forest biomass. Click here to read the position statement with the full list of signatories Position Statement on Forest Biomass Energy We...
International civil society says no to geoengineering – “Hands off Mother Earth!” manifesto issued
110 organizations and social movements, including renowned environmental activists, Friends of the Earth International, La Via Campesina, Indigenous Environmental Network, Third World Network, ETC Group, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation have issued a manifesto...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter September 2018
Dear Biofuelwatch supporters Welcome to our latest newsletter, with updates about Drax Power Station, subsidies for biomass, cellulosic biofuels and a few things we've been getting up to internationally. Please read and share and, as always, contact us if you...
Biofuelwatch briefing about EDF’s proposals to convert Le Havre and Cordemais power stations to biomass
EDF proposal to convert Cordemais and Le Havre power stations to waste wood or mixed waste: A Trojan Horse for burning coal and forest wood from 2022? Update: EDF decided not to go ahead with a biomass project at Le Havre. In July 2021, EDF cancelled plans for the...
New report exposes worldwide failure of cellulosic biofuels
Biofuelwatch press release about launch of cellulosic biofuels report 17th September 2018 - A report [1] published by Biofuelwatch [2] today busts the myths around the supposed ‘promises’ of cellulosic biofuels, tracking the history and recent commercial failures of...
Biofuelwatch report: Dead End Road – The False Promise of Cellulosic Biofuels
Biofuelwatch has published its new in-depth report about cellulosic biofuels, with an in-depth look at each of the commercial-scale facilities worldwide claimed to have been commissioned or operational since 2010. Click here to download the full report (4 MB) Click...
More information on the 2018 UK biomass subsidy changes
The two changes announced by the Government apply to Contracts for Difference (CfDs), which are the new scheme for renewable electricity subsidies phased in from 2014-17. Previously, all biomass plants attracted a different subsidy, called Renewable Obligation...
Environmental campaigners applaud Government decision which effectively stops subsidies for burning imported wood in new power stations
Government urged to review subsidies already granted for wood burning in power plants 3rd September 2018 - Environmental campaigners welcome a new Government decision to rule out future subsidies for biomass power stations with greenhouse gas emissions above 29kg CO2...