Campaigners welcome Drax's decision to pull out of destructive energy project: Biofuelwatch Media Advisory, 25th September 2015 Environmental campaigners welcome today’s news that Drax Plc has withdrawn from the proposed White Rose Project. The power station would...
Plantations are not Forests: Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Thousands demonstrated outside the World Forestry Congress in Durban on 10th September. The protest, organised by the Civil Society Alternative Programme in Durban, denounced the false definition of industrial tree plantations as forests by the Food and Agriculture...
Can sustainability standards for bioenergy protect forests? Biofuelwatch and Global Forest Coalition poster presented to the World Forestry Congress 2015, in Durban. Download the poster here
Press release: Tuesday 8th September, 2015 International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood, warning of their disastrous impacts on biodiversity, communities and climate Briefing published...
Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive, Joint briefing by NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Biofuelwatch, Econexus, Global Forest Coalition, World Rainforest Movement, Rettet den Regenwald e.V./Rainforest...
Biofuelwatch objection to a 49.9 MWe biomass power station proposed in Norwich
Biofuelwatch comments about biochar and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, submitted by Rachel Smolker to the Convention on Biological Diversity's consultation "Update on climate geoengineering in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity potential...
[add-this] In the centre of Norwich, "Generation Park" want to build the UK's biggest straw-burning power station. It would burn up to 250,000tonnes of straw pellets a year - and if the company cannot get enough straw then they might burn wood instead. If the power...
Biofuelwatch submission to Environmental Audit Committee about key policies needed to adequately protect the environment, promote growth in the low carbon sector and improve wellbeing
Biofuelwatch submission to the UK's Energy and Climate Change Committee about their 2015-20 workplan
US NGO Dogwood Alliance have released a video of their recent Tour of hotspots of the wood pellet industry in the southern US. They travelled 2,200 miles through 8 states, held 10 community events in 6 different cities and, with the help of 37 diverse partner...
Blazing a trail of deception: the White Rose Project and “negative emissions” technologies by Oliver Munnion, published on OpenDemocracy In the UK, a new coal fired power station is being developed by Drax that, if built, would be the first new coal fired power...
Biofuelwatch has just published a new report on biomass gasification and pyrolysis (so-called "advanced conversion technologies") in the UK. In addition, a series of questions to the Green Investment Bank has also been published, highlighting serious concerns about...
Biofuelwatch objection to a proposed waste wood gasification plant by Balfour Beatty and Nexterra at Fiddlers Reach, Grays, West Thurrock
"Jurassic World" and the Dinosaurs at the USDA, Rachel Smolker, Truthout
update September 2015: Drax has pulled out of the consortium which was to build this coal power station, which makes it highly unlikely that the proposal will go ahead. read the full background briefing here read the Press release here At 9am this morning,...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Thursday, June 18, 2015 CONTACT: Oliver Munnion, 07917693337, oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Suzie Gilbert, 07523 742 072, suzie@fitzgibbonmedia.com Giant White Elephant Delivers Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New...