Our colleague in the US, Rachel Smolker, has written a response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as they sought input from the public on 'Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'. In the response it is made clear that we do not support the...
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California Refinery Pivot to Soy-based Diesel Threatens Forests and Communities in Paraguay
Listen to From Beyond The Redwood Curtain, Episode 5: Soy-Based Diesel Threatens Paraguay - unique public affairs radio programming from Biofuelwatch and KMUD. As California looks to soy-based 'renewable diesel' and 'sustainable aviation fuel' as a climate solution,...
Switzerland: Intensive logging and forest degradation in supposedly protected nature sites
Switzerland has ratified the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. As a contracting party and to help meet its commitments, it has designated Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs). Together , those areas form the...
UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS
9 environmental organisations warn the UK government about the risks associated with Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) Read full statement here
Biofuelwatch Joins Coalition in Demanding Exhaustive Environmental Review of San Francisco Bay Area Biofuel Refinery Project
A broad coalition of local, national and international organizations have together submitted comments on the initiation of the review process for a proposed biofuels refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area. The letter, facilitated and coordinated by expert legal staff...
Swallowing Indonesia’s forests
Blog by Rachel Smolker New report reveals how Indonesia’s proposed food estate projects threaten social and environmental disaster of global concern. Read full report here in English Read full report here in Bahasa Read report summary in Bahasa Read report summary in...
NEWSLETTER Feb 2021
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our first 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...
Podcasts
We are pleased to share podcasts from our colleague in California Gary on a range of topics which are related to Biofuelwatch's work. Click to listen to the KPFA Terra Verde podcast on Chile and California connections, very interesting history - recorded on 5th...
CALIFORNIA REFINERY SWITCH TO BIOFUELS NOT AS GREEN AS IT SOUNDS
By Gary Graham Hughes, February 2021 The Carquínez Strait is a wonder of powerful tide waters that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Sacramento-San Joaquín Delta. Every salmon born in the extensive Sacramento and Central Valley watersheds will make the journey...
Netherlands campaign against new biomass plant
Comite Schone Lucht starts a campaign against the new biomass plant of the (Swedish) energy company Vattenfall in Diemen. The biomass plant is planned for the heatnetwork of Amsterdam. It will be the biggest biomassplant in the Netherlands. Yearly 200.000 tonnes of...
NEWSLETTER December 2020
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our final update of the year. Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout the year. With your continued support, we will keep working to ensure we see meaningful responses to climate change and protection of forests and...
Dirty Wood Pellet Plant In California Redwood Region Raises Further Doubt About Biomass Sustainability Standards
The surreptitious installation of pollution controls at a controversial wood pellet manufacturing plant in Mendocino County on the North Coast of California has raised doubts about the failures of biomass and forest management sustainability standards to protect...
New report by NGOs in Estonia and Latvia shows wood pellets burned by Drax Power Station linked to forest degradation in their countries
Wood pellet use by Drax Plc in Yorkshire, together with bioenergy demand from other countries in Europe, is driving intensive clearcutting in protected forests in Estonia and Latvia, a new report reveals. Hidden inside a wood pellet: intensive logging impacts in...
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Newsletter September 2020
We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping safe and well at this difficult time and that you have had a good summer. As we look forward to the start of autumn, we have some exciting campaign updates and upcoming events to share with you. Click here to sign up to...
Biofuelwatch Sounds Alarm on Sudden Pivot to Soy-based Diesel in California Refinery Sector
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is a high profile, extremely complex and poorly understood markets-based mechanism implemented by California state authorities as an foundational element of the state’s vaunted climate portfolio. The stated objective of the LCFS is...
End the Drax Train of Destruction Protest, 14 August 2020
A huge thank you to everyone that took part in the 'End the Drax Train of Destruction' protests on the 14th of August 2020. This was an amazing coordinated action online and across 10 locations in the North which included groups from Friends of the Earth, Extinction...
Why we need to Scrap Subsidies for Burning Wood
BIOMASS SUBSIDIES ARE A HUGE WASTE OF MONEY In 2019, nearly £1.5 billion from all our electricity bills subsidised burning biomass £1,456,300,000 according to Kwasi Kwarteng's answer to a Parliamentary Question from Rosie Cooper MP in July 2020...