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,...
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...
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...
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...
In Paris for #COP21? The full Climate Space programme of events has just been published, and there's loads going on! Biofuelwatch is co-organising a number of them, including: December 5th - System change not climate change: uniting struggles for climate justice,...
'Threatened Forests' (Morgane Productions, 2015, directed by Benoît Grimont) Join us for the UK premiere of this powerful new film ('Threatened Forests' trailer). The film shows the impacts of UK and EU biomass energy policies on native forests in North...
Thousands demonstrated outside the World Forestry Congress in Durban on 10th September. The protest, organised by the Civil Society Alternative Programme in Durban, denounced the false definition of industrial tree plantations as forests by the Food and Agriculture...
update September 2015: Drax has pulled out of the consortium which was to build this coal power station, which makes it highly unlikely that the proposal will go ahead. read the full background briefing here read the Press release here At 9am this morning,...
18th June 2015 · 09:00-10:00 · DECC 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW Join the facebook page here! The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is planning to award up to £1bn in support for a new coal and biomass power station at Drax. The White Rose Project,...
As part of our ongoing "Banking on Big Biomass" campaign, Biofuelwatch and UK Without Incineration Network paid a visit to the Green Investment Bank (GIB) at their Annual Review in London on Thursday the 25th of June 2015. The Green Investment Bank (GIB) was set-up to...
on Wednesday 22nd April 2015, we celebrated earth day by targeting the uk's biggest power station at its company agm. highlights of the day included: a lively protest held together with the london mining network outside the agm, disruption inside the agm, a stunt at...
Video by Reel News Want to #axedrax with us? Here's what you can do! Come to #axedrax in London on 22nd April - find out more Invite your friends to #axedrax on our facebook event page Take part in the #axedrax Thunderclap! Sign the petition: No public funds for a new...
Tickets are free but please book via Eventbrite to avoid disappointment! We will have a speaker from a US alliance of conservation organisations that are campaigning against the destruction of their country's forests to produce pellets for Drax and other UK power...
On Friday, 6th February, Transition Town Kingston are hosting a debate on Energy Policy between Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (and the local MP) and Duncan Law from Biofuelwatch: TTK host a discussion: "Energy for the future - is policy...
During a 'National Day of Action to Save our Southern Forests' more that 50,000 US citizens delivered messages to the UK Energy Minister Ed Davey requesting him to end the destruction of forests in the southern US caused by misguided renewable energy policies and...
On the 15th of November 2014 Biofuelwatch held a training session for volunteers in London. Almuth Ernsting, founding co-director of Biofuelwatch started with an overview of bio-energy. She showed why it is not possible to have sustainable large-scale bio-energy....
A lively protest - complete with cake and burning trees for candles - took place to coincide with the Green Investment Bank's 2nd birthday event, where the bank's vision for 2020 was set out. We were calling on the bank to ditch its dirty and polluting investments in...