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Do you ever wish you had a two-page info sheet to explain the basics of what’s wrong with biomass electricity and why we campaign about Drax Power Station? Well, now you have. Biomass fact sheet web view Biomass fact sheet print quality Drax fact sheet web view...
Drax wins award for…?
Last week, Drax Plc received a prize for “Green Innovation“ at the Humber Renewables Awards for its carbon capture efforts - despite the fact that no carbon is actually being stored at the power station. Drax announced last year that it would start trialling BioEnergy...
Open Letter to California Governor Newsom about California Tropical Forest Standard and Aviation
Click here to read the letter with full details of all signatories and with references [add-this] We write to express our concern about the dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector and the lack of a transparent and science-based plan for the...
Broad Coalition Sends Letter to California Governor, Urging Rejection of Controversial Global Aviation Climate Scheme
California Tropical Forest Standard endorsement would put California stamp of approval on dubious plan of global aviation industry to address climate damage with carbon offsets and biofuels for “carbon neutral growth” San Francisco, 19 June 2019 – A diverse coalition...
Please join The Time is Now mass lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies
Please join “The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People” and ask your MP to take urgent climate action by redirecting huge renewable energy subsidies from biomass burning to genuine renewables On Wednesday 26th June thousands of individuals and...
Please Join The Time is Now Mass Lobby of Parliament on 26 June to call for an end to biomass power subsidies – Information Page
Join "The Time is now: A Mass Lobby for Climate, Nature and People" and urge your MP to demand that renewable energy subsidies be redirected from high-carbon biomass to true renewables. On Wednesday 26 June thousands of individuals and organisations will gather in...
Environmental campaigners protest against Humber Renewables Awards for UK’s single biggest CO2 emitter, Drax Plc.
Hull, 14th June 2019 – Last night, environmental campaigners greeted attendees of the 2019 Humber Renewables Awards ceremony [1] in Hessle, Hull with a banner protest against the presentation of one of the awards to Drax Plc, owners of the UK’s single biggest power...
Drax Plc: a terrible candidate for the Humber Renewables Awards
Drax Plc has been shortlisted in two categories for the Humber Renewables Awards. Such awards should be going to businesses that invest in clean and low-carbon renewable energy – not to the owners of the UK’s single biggest CO2 emitter! While Drax likes to present...
Open Letter to California State Assembly Opposing California Tropical Forest Standard
Click here to read Open Letter to Assembly Members Cristina Garcia and Eduardo Garcia ahead of the June 3rd Tropical Forest Standard Stakeholder Meeting Signed by Amazon Watch Asian Pacific Environmental Network System Change not Climate Change Biofuelwatch California...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter May 2019
Dear Biofuelwatch supporters, Welcome to our latest newsletter full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Important reading for anyone who wants to see meaningful responses to climate change and who is concerned...
Environmental coalition warns against false climate solutions in Committee on Climate Change report
Leading environmental groups call for an end to UK subsidy programme for power plants relying on forests for fuel and highliht need for the Govenrment to invest in genuine renewables to meet net zero emissions target The UK government’s continued support for burning...
Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business
Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks 2nd May 2019 - The Environmental Paper Network [1], Global Forest Coalition [2] and Biofuelwatch [3] have today issued a briefing to investors [4] that highlights the...
Risky Biomass Business: The reputational and financial risks of investing in forest biomass energy
Joint briefing to investors by the Global Forest Coalition, Environmental Paper Network and Biofuelwatch Click here to read the briefing. Summary: Investors in electricity generated from burning forest wood are facing increasing reputational risks, as well as facing...
Joint Report about Genetically Engineered American Chestnut trees
Biotechnology for Forest Health? The Test Case of the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut Report by the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees, Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) and Biofuelwatch, written by Rachel Smolker and...
#AxeDrax protests outside Drax AGM, Drax Power Station and in Sheffield
A colourful and musical protest was held outside Drax Plc's AGM on 17th April 2019. Simultaneous banner protests took place outside Drax power station in Yorkshire and in Sheffield. Campaigners denounced Drax for burning more wood than the UK produces every year, for...
Protesters denounce Drax’s ‘major contribution to UK climate change emissions’ outside company AGM
Two solidarity protests held outside Drax Power Station in York and in Sheffield London, 17th April – Climate justice campaigners held a colourful and musical protest outside Drax Plc’s Annual General Meeting in London earlier today, denouncing the company’s power...
Press release: 96,000 call on Secretary of State to refuse permission for largest-ever UK gas power station
London, 4th April 2019 - A petition of over 96,000 signatures [1] was handed to the Office of Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark this morning, accompanied by an Open Letter [2] signed by 92 organisations – and by a...