Scottish Parliamentary Briefing by Friends of the Earth Scotland, Biofuelwatch, No Leith Biomass and Grangemouth Community Council: How Scottish Government proposals will support destructive, low-efficiency, large-scale biomass (updated 29th October 2012)
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Objection to Estover Energy’s proposed biomass plant at Craigellachie
Biofuelwatch objection to proposed biomass plant by Estover Energy at Craigellachie Wood, Moray
Biofuelwatch Report – Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth
Biofuelwatch has released a new report, 'Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth'. It explores the certification companies certifying biomass as sustainable, the UK government's proposed sustainability criteria for biomass, and developer's 'promises' to source...
‘Companies’ claims of sustainable biomass are greenwashing’ say environmental campaigners
'Companies' claims of sustainable biomass are greenwashing' say environmental campaigners
An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South
An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles, EJOLT Report No. 3, authors: Winfridus Overbeek (World Rainforest Movement), Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki) and Julien-François Gerber
International organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguan, Honduras
International organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguan, Honduras
US Corn crisis update: will Environmental Protection Agency suspend ethanol mandate?
The US drought is having serious impacts on the global food supply which will impact the world's poorest. Yet 40% the US' maize crop will be fed to cars, not people, to hit the US' bioethanol target. On Monday, the USA Environmental Protection Agency announced it will...
Scottish Parliamentary Event on Biomass 13th September: Register Your Place Now!
Biofuelwatch is teaming up with Friends of the Earth Scotland to host a FREE event in the Scottish Parliament on the human rights and environmental atrocities associated with industrial-scale biomass and biofuels. The event is timed to coincide with Biofuelwatch's...
FAO director general: ‘The US must take biofuel action to prevent a food crisis’
The UN's Food & Agricultural Organisation has called for the US to suspect its biofuels mandatory targets. Writing in the Financial Times yesterday (9th Aug), FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said that the drought currently being suffered in the US,...
80 MW Biomass power station threat in Cumbria – Register your objection today!
Centrica have applied to build a 80MW biomass power station in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. At a time when scientists warn that burning biomass on an industrial scale threatens to worsen global warming, speed up deforestation, and lead to ecosystems destruction...
First Biofuelwatch objection to Edgeley Green Power’s biofuel power station in Shoreham
First Biofuelwatch objection to Edgeley Green Power's application for a biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea (focussing on air quality impacts)
DECC announcement on ROCs: continued subsidies for biomass
DECC has today announced that it will continue to heavily subsidise biomass and liquid biofuels under the Renewable Obligation Certification scheme. This will effectively give millions of pounds to developers to cut forests, increase greenhouse gas...
Closing Submission to Grangemouth Public Inquiry
Biofuelwatch was a member of the Grangemouth Community Council Coalition which made representations against a 100MW Biomass Power station proposed for the Port of Grangemouth, in Scotland, in May 2011. The Coalition's closing submission can be found here
Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped
Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped - Civil society statement on the finance of land grabs
Indigenous Terra Livre Declaration at Rio+20
Indigenous Terra Livre Declaration at Rio+20: Final Declaration of Freen Land Camp IX - Living Well/Healthy Full Life
GJEP and Biofuelwatch disrupt industry event with Richard Branson
GJEP and Biofuelwatch disrupt industry event with Richard Branson, Joint Press release by Global Justice Ecology Project and Biofuelwatch
Bio-Economies: The EU’s real ‘green economy’ agenda?
Bio-Economies: The EU's real 'green economy' agenda? Report by Ronnie Hall and Joe Zacune, published by Transnational Institute and World Development Movement
Kari-Oca 2 Declaration
Kario-Oca 2 Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth