Please note: Last minute venue change for #biomessawards - please meet at 7pm at Grange St Paul's Hotel, 10 Godliman St, EC4V 5AJ - just south of St Pauls, in from Café Rouge Photographs will be available from our website shortly after the event...
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Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal, by Mary S. Booth, Partnership for Policy Integrity
Failed investment in biomass calls industry into question
Failed investment in biomass calls industry into question: Bad news for biomass industry: failed investment marks a sobering conclusion to annual industry event in Florida Joint Press release by Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance and Global Justice Ecology Project
Forth Energy drops all biomass plans in Scotland – campaigners welcome news but issue warning to new developers
Biofuelwatch media release – for immediate use 27th March 2014 Media contact: Oliver Munnion 07917693337 Forth Energy drops all biomass plans in Scotland – campaigners welcome news but issue warning to new developers Forth Energy, formerly a joint venture between...
Fundraising appeal: Please support communities in Maranhao defending their lands from eucalyptus plantations
[This Fundraising Appeal is now closed. Many thanks to all who have generously contributed!] In the Brazilian state of Maranhão, communities, the livelihoods and land rights of traditional communities are under serious threat from large-scale eucalyptus...
Treasury response to MP about public loan guarantees for big biomass
See here and here for a response by the Treasury to a letter sent by Charlotte Leslie MP. Note that + The Treasury states that they do not consider sustainability in their assessment and due diligence under the Guarantee Scheme, i.e when deciding to which projects...
Joint Response to EC Consultation on Community Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection
Joint response by Biofuelwatch and Econexus to the European Commission's consultation on Consultation on Community Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection
What Is Climate Geoengineering? Word Games in the Ongoing Debates Over a Definition
What Is Climate Geoengineering? Word Games in the Ongoing Debates Over a Definition , Article in Truthout by Rachel Smolker of Biofuelwatch
Consultation Response to RTFO Draft Post-Implementation Review
Biofuelwatch Response to Consultation on Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Draft Post-Implementation Review
Biomass industry “playing with fire” say campaigners as Ironbridge power station suffers blaze
Biofuelwatch media release – for immediate use 4th February 2014 Media contacts: Almuth Ernsting - 01316232600 Duncan Law - 07958635181 Biomass industry “playing with fire” say campaigners as Ironbridge power station suffers blaze Today's fire at Ironbridge biomass...
Biomass Sustainability Standards – a Credible Tool for Avoiding Negative Impacts from Large-scale Bioenergy?
Biomass Sustainability Standards – a Credible Tool for Avoiding Negative Impacts from Large-scale Bioenergy? Briefing by Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition and Econexus
Biofuelwatch briefing about Contracts for Difference and bioenergy
Note: The information in the briefing was accurate in 2014, at the time of publication. There have been changes since then and Biofuelwatch intends to publish an update following an expected further Government announcement expected in December 2015. Subsidising...
No more subsidies for big biomass
- Note: This consultation is now closed and the alert only remains as a record, for information - The UK Government is introducing new subsidies for energy classed as renewable, called Contracts for Difference. Their subsidy rules and proposals are a major boost for...
“Scottish Government’s Rosyth Biomass approval a betrayal of promises” say campaigners
Biofuelwatch & Friends of the Earth Scotland media release – for immediate use 27th January 2014 Media contacts: Biofuelwatch - Oliver Munnion 07917693337 Friends of the Earth Scotland - Lisa Trainer on 0131 243 2715 “Scottish Government’s Rosyth Biomass approval...
South West Extreme Energy Gathering Media Release
Biomass, Fracking and Anti-nuclear campaigner are getting together to share ideas, resources and campaign energy in Bristol on Saturday 1 February. It will focus on action planning. See media release here See flier here
Biochar’s Unproven Claims – Factsheet
Biochar's Unproven Claims A 3-page factsheet summing up the main findings of the 2011 Biofuelwatch report "Biochar: A Critical Report of Science and Policy" as well as recent scientific and policy developments, substantially updated 1st July 2013
Videos from the handover of NGO Open Letter to HM Treasury
Videos from the handover of the Open Letter "Prequalified biomass and waste incineration projects must be rejected from the UK" by Friends of the Earth, Biofuelwatch, UK Without Incineration Network and Campaign Against Climate change to HM Treasury: + Speech by...
Where’s The Lorax When We Need Him?
Where’s The Lorax When We Need Him?, Rachel Smolker, Huffington Post