In collaboration with Coal Action Network and the London Mining Network, Biofuelwatch went to protest against subsidies for Drax's biomass burning at the new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This department was created to take on some of...
For immediate release: 22nd October 2016 Protest at Drax power station marks 10 years since first ‘Climate Camp’ Photos are free to use under Creative Commons licence CC BY. Please credit Sebastian Wood/Biofuelwatch This afternoon more than 60 people gathered outside...
London, 19th October 2016 – Climate justice campaigners [1] staged a colourful protest outside the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) today, urging ministers to ‘turn a new leaf’ in energy policy and stop funding Drax power station,...
Joint press release by Biofuelwatch, UK Without Incineration Network and Coal Action Network 12th October 2016 - Environmental campaign groups warn that the imminent takeover of the UK’s so far publicly owned Green Investment Bank (GIB) by the Australian Macquarie...
[add-this] 5th August 2016 – Biofuelwatch [1], an environmental campaigning organisation warns that a sustainability certificate obtained by Drax plc, whose Yorkshire power station burns more wood than any other plant in the world, reveals the UK’s biomass...
Open Letter: E.On’s ambitious wood power station plans in France pose threat to forests - for immediate release - Press release by Biofuelwatch, Denkhaus Bremen and SOS Forêt du Sud [add-this] 30th June 2016 – 26 civil society society groups worldwide have sent an...
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...
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...
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...
Campaigners say: False solutions to climate change do not cut emissions but damage land and livelihoods in other countries 10th February 2016 - 120 civil society organisations and networks from across the globe have published a declaration today, calling for bioenergy...
The nightmare before Christmas: Future GE Chestnuts: Ho Ho NO!, Press release by Global Justice Ecology Project, Indigenous Environment Network and Biofuelwatch, Stop GE Trees Coalition New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts...
Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference Paris, 1st December 2015 - The first in-depth and critical analysis of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) [1], a so-called “negative emissions” technology favoured by...
Press release by Biofuelwatch, Coal Action Network and Partnership for Policy Integrity, 18 November 2015 For immediate release COAL PHASE-OUT MUST MEAN URGENT CLOSURE OF ALL COAL POWER STATIONS, INCLUDING DRAX, CAMPAIGNERS SAY No mention of biomass electricity in...
Campaigners welcome Drax's decision to pull out of destructive energy project: Biofuelwatch Media Advisory, 25th September 2015 Environmental campaigners welcome today’s news that Drax Plc has withdrawn from the proposed White Rose Project. The power station would...
Press release: Tuesday 8th September, 2015 International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood, warning of their disastrous impacts on biodiversity, communities and climate Briefing published...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Thursday, June 18, 2015 CONTACT: Oliver Munnion, 07917693337, oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Suzie Gilbert, 07523 742 072, suzie@fitzgibbonmedia.com Giant White Elephant Delivers Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New...
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, June 18, 2015 CONTACT: Oliver Munnion, 07917693337, oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Suzie Gilbert, 07523 742 072, suzie@fitzgibbonmedia.com Activists To Deliver Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New Coal Plant Using...