Summary: Drax uses advertising, lobbying meetings, donations, educational resources, academic research and sponsorship of events to gain public and political support for its tree burning and to present the company as benevolent and part of the climate solution when...
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MP briefing on subsidies for biomass electricity by Cut Carbon Not Forests
Bioenergy: The Fake Renewable Energy Burning through the World’s Forests 1st August 2024 Click here to download the briefing. Click here to find out more about the Cut Carbon Not Forests coalition.
Video expose of Portuguese pellet supplier of Drax
video investigation by Biofuelwatch and Portuguese NGO Zero shows impacts of drax's pellet supplier pinewells on pine forests, including on natura 2000 site A new video investigation by Biofuelwatch and the Portuguese NGO ZERO reveals that the Pinewells pellet...
Climate activists stage musical protest over Government proposals for new tree-burning subsidies
Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees Press Release For immediate release Climate justice campaigners from across the UK environmental movement gathered outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)1 in London today in a colourful and...
Logging what’s left: How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests
Joint investigation into wood sourcing for Drax pellet mills in British Columbia by Conservation North, Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition and Biofuelwatch Drax Group Plc is a UK-based company that operates the world’s biggest biomass power station, and is also the...
BECCS Factsheet April 2023
Download our BECCS factsheet with a focus on Drax's proposal to capture CO2 from two of its large biomass units in Yorkshire.
New Report: Biomass Burning Less Important to UK’s Coal Phaseout than Wind and Solar
A new report published today by Biofuelwatch has revealed that bioenergy has played a smaller role in the UK’s coal phase out than solar and wind energy, or reductions in electricity demand. In the ten years between 2011 and 2020 the UK almost entirely phased out the...
BEIS Biomass Policy Statement – November 2021 – Reference Document
In November 2021 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released a biomass policy statement, which laid out how the government views various forms of biomass energy ahead of the biomass strategy being released in 2022. What does the...
Drax’s Portuguese pellets: What wood is really being used?
In 2020, Drax burned almost 150,000 tonnes of pellets produced in Portugal, making Portugal it’s fourth largest supplier. According to its annual report, 88% of the wood used consisted of “low-grade roundwood” and “thinnings”. The Pinewells pellet mill in Central...
BECCS: Discourse about unicorns descends into real-world farce
This month’s “breaking news” on BECCS: Small UK startup company to test some unproven new solvent nobody’s published anything about in order to help Drax put fizz into beer The ‘world’s first’ Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) ‘pilot project’ has...
Investor Briefing on Drax’s Biomass 2018
This Investor Briefing was handed to Drax investors entering the Drax AGM in York on 25 April 2018, as well as interested passers-by. It was subsequently sent to Drax's principle institutional investors. We invite investors to talk to us about their Drax investments....
Wind and solar, not biomass, have been key to the UK’s partial coal phase-out so far
New Biofuelwatch analysis In 2016, the UK generated 72% less electricity from coal than in 2011, which is great news for the climate and for communities around the world whose health and environment are harmed by coal mining. Biofuelwatch has carried out the...
Drax ‘Warning to Investors 2017’
This Warning to Investors was handed to Drax investors entering the Drax AGM in York on 13 April 2017 and, in London, to employees of Invesco and Schroders Bank, Drax's two largest investors, as well as interested passers-by, during the #AxeDrax protests. Drax...
Briefings about the UK’s biomass greenhouse gas and sustainability standards
Biofuelwatch has published a policy analysis briefing about the UK's biomass sustainability greenhouse gas and sustainability standards, introduced 1st December 2015. Together with the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), we have also produced a briefing for MPs...
Recommendations to UK policymakers: Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and UK Without Incineration Network
Policy recommendations by Biofuelwatch and the United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN): Renewable Energy Subsidies in the UK: the case for excluding bioenergy and waste incineration
Biofuewatch briefing about the White Rose “CCS” project
UPDATE: In September 2015, Drax announced that they were pulling out of this project which therefore now seems unlikely to go ahead. The White Rose “CCS” project: Why its "carbon capture" plans are doubtful and why public subsidies should not be spent on Drax’s new...
The Green Investment Bank: Still Banking on Big Biomass
Biofuelwatch meets with representatives of the bank to discuss their investments into big biomass. On the 20th of March Biofuelwatch were invited to attend a meeting with the Green Investment Bank (GIB). The request came in response to an e-alert that Biofuelwatch...