Planning Inspectorate accused of ignoring the health and safety of Milford Haven residents and workers in controversial biomass and waste gasifier application -For immediate release - 8th September 2017 - Environmental campaigners have today sent an Open Letter...
Press Releases
What state-of-the-art trains? Power station’s sloppy supply chain covers roads with wood dust
Monday 28th August 2017 A press release from Action North Killingholme In recent weeks, residents of North & South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, have been subjected to 24-hour heavy traffic leaving trails of wood dust and bits of pellets strewn on their roads...
Briefing : Drax’s Coal-to-Biomass conversion increases emissions of dangerous small particles
11th August 2017 Read the report here: Drax and air quality briefing 2017 A new investigation by Biofuelwatch has discovered that since Drax Power Station's part-conversion to burning wood pellets, emissions of dangerous dust particles have increased by 135%. The...
US Dept. of Agriculture Receives Near Unanimous Public Rejection of GE Trees
Statement from Biofuelwatch, Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous Environmental Network 19 July 2017 New York (US)–New Zealand-owned tree biotechnology company ArborGen faces near unanimous opposition to commercial deregulation of their...
Portugal’s Wildfires: a Result of the Timber Industry
Wildfires in Portugal have been called “the worst such disaster in recent history.” Dozens of people burnt to death in their cars while trying to escape the inferno. But this horrific tragedy was human-made. One-quarter...
International campaign groups visit Denmark to sound alarm against biomass as a climate solution
International Environmental nGOs Visit Denmark to Sound the Alarm Against Danish Biomass as a Climate Solution Groups Highlight the Vital Role Forests Play in Mitigating Climate Change and Urge End to Taxpayer Subsidies in Biomass and a Comprehensive Shift to...
Protesters against Drax in London, York and Liverpool say divest from biomass, coal and gas
Protestors against Drax Plc in York, Liverpool and London say Divest from Biomass, Coal and Gas! 13th April 2017 Scores of people around the country are protesting against Drax Plc on the day of its AGM today, with three simultaneous demonstrations in London,...
Media Advisory: simultaneous protests in three locations on the day of Drax’s AGM
For Thursday 13th April 2017 On Thursday, 13th April, anti-coal and biomass campaigners will be staging simultaneous protests outside Drax Plc's Annual General Meeting in York, and outside the offices of Drax’s two largest investors in the city of London. Local people...
NGOs condemn coal/biomass industry appointment to Climate Change Committee
Representative of coal and tree-burning industries appointed to UK Climate Change Committee Appointment of senior Drax official to advisory body represents “shocking undermining of the Committee’s independence and credibility” 27th March 2017 - UK and US...
“Bioenergy Burns Forests”—Environmentalists Denounce UN’s Bioenergy Themed International Day of Forests
Joint press release by Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch Timberwatch, Dogwood Alliance, International Tree Foundation March 20, 2017: The UNFAO’s [1] “Forests and Energy” theme for this year’s International Day of Forests on March 21 [2] misleadingly...
Report: Algae biofuels more hype than substance
Report: Algae biofuels more hype than substance 15th March 2017 - Vermont, U.S. - Biofuelwatch campaigners today released a report arguing that the failure of a prominent algae biofuels venture should be viewed as a canary in the coal mine for investors in the algae...
Environmental NGO publishes critical investigation report of Holyhead biomass “Eco Park” proposal
14th March 2017 - Environmental campaigning organisation Biofuelwatch has today published a report [1] which investigates a proposal for the world’s largest biomass gasification plant in Holyhead, and Orthios Group, the company behind it. The proposed plant would, if...
Damhead and Old Pentland residents in new warnings over company behind Planning Appeal for controversial “film studio” and power plant
Damhead and Old Pentland residents in new warnings over company behind Planning Appeal for controversial “film studio” and power plant Joint Press Release by Damhead and District Community Council, Protect Damhead’s Greenbelt, Friends of the Earth Midlothian,...
Company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology
Campaigners obtain evidence that company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology 27th January 2017 - A Biofuelwatch Freedom of Information request has revealed that...
Joint Press Release about Egnedol directors having been behind failed gasification scheme
Joint Press Release by Biofuelwatch and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth Campaigners obtain evidence that company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology 27th January...
Joint Press Release about Egnedol’s Application for a Large Waste and Biomass Gasification Plant in Milford Haven
Environmental Campaigners Vow to Fight Egnedol’s Milford Haven waste and biomass plans, Joint Press release by Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth and Biofuelwatch
New Renewable Energy Directive useless if large-scale bioenergy included, environmental justice campaigners warn
Press release by Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch, Woodland League, Econexus, Biofuelwatch, Transnational Institute, Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH), Corporate Europe Observatory, and Amis de l'Afrique Francophone- Bénin Brussels, 30 November 2016 The revised...
Press Release: Environmental campaigners in US and Denmark urge key investor to withdraw investment from large biomass power station project MGT Teesside at Teesport in the UK
17th November 2016 - A large new biomass power station planned at Teesport has come under fire from US environmental campaigners, who have teamed up with Danish campaigners to persuade a key investor to pull their money out because of the serious effects which the...