Biofuelwatch response to the biogas-related questions of the consultation "Review of support for Anaerobic Digestion and micro-Combined Heat and Power under the Feed-in Tariffs scheme"
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Mascoma: The biggest mis-spending of public funds for cellulosic biofuels ever?
Biofuelwatch investigation into Mascoma Corporation, who took at least $100 million and possibly over $155 million in public subsidies, mostly for building commercial cellulosic ethanol refineries which they never started to build. [add-this] Executive Summary: This...
Comments on Egnedol’s Environmental Impact Assessment for their proposed Blackbridge development
Joint submission by Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth Cymru and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth about Egnedol's pre-application consultation for a proposed 49.9 MWe waste and biomass gasification plant with associated developments, including algal biofuels,...
Objection to SiBOR’s planning application for a waste wood gasifier in Andover
Biofuelwatch objection to SiBOR's proposal for a 10 MWe waste wood gasification plant at Walworth Business Park, Andover
New summary BECCS report: Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking?
Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Foundation, has re-released a summarised version of "Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage". It offers the first critical and in-depth analysis of a technology that...
Submission to European Commission consultation about a post-2020 bioenergy policy
Biofuelwatch response to European Commission consultation "A sustainable bioenergy policy for the period after 2020"
Extreme Energy Gathering Leeds – June 4th 2016
Coal Bioenergy Fracking POST Event Update: Extreme Energy Gathering in Leeds on Sat 4th June 2016 Thank you to all who attended this successful event. If anyone else would like to join the new local campaign against Drax, please get in touch –...
#AxeDrax AGM Protest 2016
Axe The Draxosaurus Scores of demonstrators took to the streets on April 20th 2016 to demand an end to subsidies for Drax power station, during the Drax PLC Annual General Meeting in the City of London. Highlight moments captured in this engaging video,...
UK’s largest power station hit by simultaneous protests at AGM in London and in Yorkshire, protesters demanding an end to subsidies
For immediate release London, 20th April 2016 - Environmental and human rights activists have gathered in London today for a colourful protest organised by Biofuelwatch [1] and Coal Action Network. [2] The protest targeted the AGM of Drax PLC, whose power station in...
#AxeDrax 2016 photos
Press release: Drax targeted at power station in Yorkshire, on day of company AGM
Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and the single greatest emitter of carbon in the UK and is now the biggest biomass power station in the world. People and Planet Sheffield, a human rights and environmental activist group, is protesting at Drax Power...
Warning to Investors 2016: Drax’s Continuing Biomass Deception
Biofuelwatch briefing to Drax shareholders and investors considering whether to invest in Drax
Open Letter to UNCTAD: Withdraw misleading advanced biofuels report
Today Biofuelwatch and six other groups (Center for Biological Diversity, ETC Group, Friends of the Earth U.S., Global Justice Ecology Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and International Center for Technology Assessment) have called on the UN...
Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market
For Immediate Release: April 6th, 2016 Contact: Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Co-Director, +44 131 6232 600, biofuelwatch@ymail.com Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market Edinburgh, Scotland –Today...
Video: #AxeDrax: North Carolina farmers speak out about the destruction of their forests
Video with interviews with farmers from North Carolina speaking about the destruction of forests in their region to make pellets which are burned by Drax
US forest destruction for UK power stations: Public meeting 14/3
What’s actually happening in US forests? Two United States landowners are coming to the UK on March 14th to share with us their stories of the destruction of forests in North Carolina. This event is an opportunity to meet with Jack Spruill & Terri Moffat, who...
Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven
Biofuelwatch press release for immediate use: 17 February 2016 Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven An environmental campaigning organisation has today published a report [1] on a biomass gasification...
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat [Update: In March 2016,Solazyme announced that they are changing their name to TerraVia] A Biofuelwatch investigation of a Californian company which has...