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BIOFUELWATCH JOINS SCATHING TAKE DOWN OF DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF PROPOSED BIOFUEL REFINERIES IN CALIFORNIA
A coalition of 20 local, national and international organizations submitted comment letters on the draft environmental review of two refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area that are attempting to extend the life of their antiquated industrial facilities with a...
NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2021
Welcome to our final newsletter of 2021 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 about protecting...
Video – Uprooting the Drivers of Deforestation & Climate Change: Frontline Visions and Pathways to a Transformative World
On 9th November 2021 Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with the Global Forest Coalition and other NGOs, co-hosted an online panel discussion that challenged some of the false climate solutions being proposed and promoted at COP26, and how these false solutions will make...
Drax admits lack of data about its own BECCS proposals
Written Responses from Drax Consultation Team from between 17th and 23rd of December 2021 Drax has also responded to questions from Biofuelwatch during a consultation in March 2021, in which it admitted that it had no real-world for capturing carbon from their biomass...
Carbon Capture or Captured Futures? New Report From Biofuelwatch on California Climate Politics
New Report from Biofuelwatch Exposes Sordid Workings of California Climate Politics While California state authorities continue to promote markets-based and technological approaches to advance ‘net zero’ as a primary focus for climate policy, grassroots organizations...
Axe Drax actions at COP26
Thank you to everyone who joined us, online and in person, to raise our voices in telling Drax they can not get away with greenwashing their climate-wrecking tree burning at COP26. Below are some pictures of the different Drax actions in Glasgow and around the UK...
Tidal Wave of Draft Environmental Review Documents Released for California Biofuel Refinery Projects
Thousands of pages of draft environmental review documents for two massive proposed California refinery conversions to biofuels were released earlier this month, setting the clock ticking for public engagement on the permitting of these unprecedented bioenergy...
The Scottish and UK Polluter Awards
Thank you to everyone who voted in the Scottish and UK polluter awards which were organised by Glasgow Call Out Polluters and in collaboration with Culture Unstained, UK Youth Climate Coalition, 350.org, Biofuelwatch, Impact, and Friends of the Earth...
California Legislature Backs Off Of Net Zero Plan, Overwhelmingly Approves Geoengineering Bill Promoting Direct Air Capture, BECCS And Nature-based Solutions
By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch On Friday, Sept 10, the California legislative session drew to a close for the year with the typical flurry of political theater, last minute negotiations and behind closed doors horse trading. Of...
Newsletter July 2021
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our July 2021 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...
The Curious Case of Red Rock Biofuels
By Gary Graham Hughes The financing, permitting and still unfinished construction of a woody biomass to aviation fuel refinery in remote and wild Lakeview, Oregon, has proven to be a very curious case whose investigation exposes the myths and realities of making...
The Big Con: how big polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny
We a pleased to be among contributors to a new report lead by Corporate Accountability, Global Forest Coalition and Friends of the Earth International called "The Big Con: How Big Polluters are advancing a "net zero" climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny". The...
Biofuelwatch Celebrates Independent Public Affairs Programming Collaboration With Redwood Community Radio
An independently produced radio series on liquid fuels and the proposed conversion of two San Francisco Bay Area refineries to biofuels, largely soy-based diesel and jet fuel, came to a conclusion last week with the broadcast on KMUD - Redwood Community Radio of an...
NEWSLETTER MAY 2021
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our May 2021 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...
IEA report projected to increase ‘modern’ bioenergy generation globally
Read related DeSmog article here written by a Biofuelwatch Co-Director The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its report: ‘Net Zero by 2050: A roadmap for the global energy system’. According to the report’s ‘Net Zero Emissions’ scenario an almost three...
Resist the Siren Call of Aviation Biofuels
SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL IS NEITHER CLIMATE FRIENDLY NOR SUSTAINABLE By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch The climate damaging impacts of flying are becoming harder and harder to ignore and are increasingly of concern to a climate educated...