A Call For Conservation with Conscience: No Place For Gene Drives in Conservation. A letter initiated by the Civil Society Working Group on Gene Drives, signed by scientists and civil society organisations
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EPH-owned Lynemouth Power Station: Impacts on Forests and Communities
The briefing was fully updated 1st May 2023 Click here to download the full version with photos and references. Lynemouth Power Station in Northumberland is the UK’s second biggest biomass power station after Drax. Lynemouth, like Drax Power Station, burns...
Sustainability certificate obtained by Drax ‘reveals UK biomass sustainability standards to be a scam’, say environmental campaigners
[add-this] 5th August 2016 – Biofuelwatch [1], an environmental campaigning organisation warns that a sustainability certificate obtained by Drax plc, whose Yorkshire power station burns more wood than any other plant in the world, reveals the UK’s biomass...
Biofuelwatch briefing about Egnedol’s proposed Blackbridge Biomass Gasification plant in Milford Haven
The Blackbridge Biomass Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven: A high-risk, unproven technology for burning wood and waste [add-this] This is a fully updated briefing about Egnedol's proposal to build a 49.9 MWe waste and biomass gasification plant at Blackbridge,...
Biofuelwatch Position: What does Brexit mean for Energy Justice Campaigning?
Download the pdf version of this statement Right now, none of us can foresee what future UK energy and climate policy will look like following the Brexit Referendum. Clearly, much will depend on who will end up in government over the next few years, and what...
Secretary of State issues dismissive response to #AxeDrax petition
Biofuelwatch will continue to build the #AxeDrax campaign to shut down Drax by getting their subsidies stopped. Find out more here and email us at biofuelwatch@ymail.com to subscribe to our announcement list and find out how else you can get involved in the campaign....
E.On’s ambitious wood power station plans in France pose threat to forests
Open Letter: E.On’s ambitious wood power station plans in France pose threat to forests - for immediate release - Press release by Biofuelwatch, Denkhaus Bremen and SOS Forêt du Sud [add-this] 30th June 2016 – 26 civil society society groups worldwide have sent an...
Biofuelwatch response to DECC consultation about Feed-in tariffs for biogas
Biofuelwatch response to the biogas-related questions of the consultation "Review of support for Anaerobic Digestion and micro-Combined Heat and Power under the Feed-in Tariffs scheme"
Mascoma: The biggest mis-spending of public funds for cellulosic biofuels ever?
Biofuelwatch investigation into Mascoma Corporation, who took at least $100 million and possibly over $155 million in public subsidies, mostly for building commercial cellulosic ethanol refineries which they never started to build. [add-this] Executive Summary: This...
Comments on Egnedol’s Environmental Impact Assessment for their proposed Blackbridge development
Joint submission by Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth Cymru and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth about Egnedol's pre-application consultation for a proposed 49.9 MWe waste and biomass gasification plant with associated developments, including algal biofuels,...
Objection to SiBOR’s planning application for a waste wood gasifier in Andover
Biofuelwatch objection to SiBOR's proposal for a 10 MWe waste wood gasification plant at Walworth Business Park, Andover
New summary BECCS report: Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking?
Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Foundation, has re-released a summarised version of "Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage". It offers the first critical and in-depth analysis of a technology that...
Submission to European Commission consultation about a post-2020 bioenergy policy
Biofuelwatch response to European Commission consultation "A sustainable bioenergy policy for the period after 2020"
Extreme Energy Gathering Leeds – June 4th 2016
Coal Bioenergy Fracking POST Event Update: Extreme Energy Gathering in Leeds on Sat 4th June 2016 Thank you to all who attended this successful event. If anyone else would like to join the new local campaign against Drax, please get in touch –...
#AxeDrax AGM Protest 2016
Axe The Draxosaurus Scores of demonstrators took to the streets on April 20th 2016 to demand an end to subsidies for Drax power station, during the Drax PLC Annual General Meeting in the City of London. Highlight moments captured in this engaging video,...
UK’s largest power station hit by simultaneous protests at AGM in London and in Yorkshire, protesters demanding an end to subsidies
For immediate release London, 20th April 2016 - Environmental and human rights activists have gathered in London today for a colourful protest organised by Biofuelwatch [1] and Coal Action Network. [2] The protest targeted the AGM of Drax PLC, whose power station in...
#AxeDrax 2016 photos
Press release: Drax targeted at power station in Yorkshire, on day of company AGM
Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and the single greatest emitter of carbon in the UK and is now the biggest biomass power station in the world. People and Planet Sheffield, a human rights and environmental activist group, is protesting at Drax Power...