Biochar: A Cause for Concern?, Almuth Ernsting, The Ecologist Blog
Almuth
Out of the Frying Pan
The article below appeared in the July/August edition of the Ecologist & Resurgence publication. It can be accessed here Burning wood is not the solution to climate change. Under the guise of ‘green energy’, burning wood in power stations has become a massive...
Battersea Against Biofuels Public Meeting against plans for a biofuel (palm oil) power plant at the Battersea Power Station development
Battersea Against Biofuels Public Meeting against plans for a biofuel (palm oil) power plant at the Battersea Power Station development
Biofuelwatch targets Green Bank with banner protest and questions at first year review over biomass concerns
Biofuelwatch targets Green Bank with banner protest and questions at first year review over biomass concerns Banners outside GIB AGM
Green Investment Bank: Don’t fund Forth Energy’s destructive Grangemouth biomass power station
[add-this] [NOTE: This alert is now closed and for information only. Forth Energy has announced that they will not proceed with their plans in Grangemouth and Rosyth and they have withdrawn he application in Dundee. They are looking for a potential buyer for their...
UK Government response to the campaign against Green Investment Bank funding for big biomass
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has asked us to publish their response to our campaign against Green Investment Bank funding for big biomass and biofuels. Please click here to download a copy of their response. We believe that the response...
Biofuelwatch briefing about the Scottish Government’s decision to approve Forth Energy’s Grangemouth biomass application
Update: Forth Energy eventually abandoned plans for biomass power stations in Scotland. The planning consent granted for this plant in Grangemouth expired in 2019: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2018/grangemouth-success/ Biofuelwatch briefing: Will the Scottish...
Food for fuels? Last chance lobbying for the agrofuels industry
Food for fuels? Last chance lobbying for the agrofuels industry, Report by Corporate Europe Observatory
Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering
Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering, article by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch for Hands off Mother Earth website
Modernising African Agriculture: Who Benefits?
Modernising African Agriculture: Who Benefits? African Civil Society Statement on the G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition For a solidarity statement by UK Civil Society groups, see here.
Grangemouth residents and campaign groups outraged by decision to approve Forth Energy biomass Plant
Joint press release by Grangemouth Community Council, Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth Scotland Response to the decision to approve Forth Energy's biomass power station: Energy Minister Fergus Ewing announced today that consent has been granted to Forth Energy...
Week of Protests Against GE Trees at US Industry Conference
A week of protests is under way against the International Tree Biotechnology 2013 conference in Asheville, North Carolina, from 25th May to 1st June. ArborGen, one of the conference sponsors, wants to commercially sell millions of GE eucalyptus trees in seven southern...
Climate Crisis: Radical action or a new battlefront in the war on nature?
Climate Crisis: Radical action or a new battlefront in the war on nature?, Almuth Ernsting and Rachel Smolker, Common Dreams
Opponents of genetically engineered (GE) trees join March Against Monsanto
Opponents of genetically engineered (GE) trees join March Against Monsanto Joint press release by Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First!, Dogwood Alliance, Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, REAL...
Battersea Against Biofuels
LATEST: 5.11.2013 The Developers are holding an informal public consultation prior to applying for planning permission for Phase 2. They write: 'Following a review of proposed fuels for the energy centre the use of first generation bio-oil as a fuel source is no...
Hundreds Protest against Genetically Engineered Trees
Joint Press Release by Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project, Earth First!, Dogwood Alliance, Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch Click here to read
Drax Plc lobbying of Government is misleading MPs and the public over biomass sustainability claims
Drax Plc lobbying of Government is misleading MPs and the public over biomass sustainability claims
Response to Forth Energy’s Addenum to their Dundee application
Biofuelwatch response to Forth Energy's Addendum to their application for a biomass power station at Dundee Port