The article below appeared in the July/August edition of the Ecologist & Resurgence publication. It can be accessed here Burning wood is not the solution to climate change. Under the guise of ‘green energy’, burning wood in power stations has become a massive...
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Biofuelwatch briefing about the Scottish Government’s decision to approve Forth Energy’s Grangemouth biomass application
Update: Forth Energy eventually abandoned plans for biomass power stations in Scotland. The planning consent granted for this plant in Grangemouth expired in 2019: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2018/grangemouth-success/ Biofuelwatch briefing: Will the Scottish...
Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering
Tree plantations and bioenergy with carbon capture: far from “safe” geoengineering, article by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch for Hands off Mother Earth website
RBS funding for big biomass
The Royal Bank of Scotland: Greening Its Image with False Renewable Energy Projects.
Briefing about Forth Energy’s proposed biomass power station for Dundee
Forth Energy’s proposed biomass power station for Dundee: A closer look at the company’s claims about air quality impacts, sustainability, efficiency and jobs, and why this is happening, Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth Tayside
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...
Tree plantations in the South to generate energy in the North
Tree plantations in the South to generate energy in the North: A new threat to communities and forests World Rainforest Movement briefing paper
Timothy Searchinger’s letter to Bernard Bulkin, DECC
Letter by Timothy Searchinger to Bernard Bulkin, Office of Renewable Energy, UK Department for Energy and Climate Change: Re Observations and Information Related to DECC Supplementary Statement of November 22, 2012 Regarding UK Bioenergy Strategy
RES Biomass Power Station proposal for the Port of Liverpool: Local and wider threats
RES Biomass Power Station proposal for Alexandra Dock, Port of Liverpool: Local and wider threats, Biofuelwatch background briefing
Presentations and links from ‘Forests are not Fuel: The Limits of Bioenergy in Climate Mitigation’ event
On 9th October we jointly hosted an event with Friends of the Earth, 'Forests are not Fuel: The Limits of Bioenergy in Climate Mitigation.' You can access links and presentations from our speakers here: (1) Professor Helmut Haberl's presentation dispelling the myth...
BECCS: Climate saviour or dangerous hype?
[add-this] BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage): Climate saviour or dangerous hype?, Report by Biofuelwatch UPDATE: Click here for a fully updated report about BECCS, published by Biofuelwatch in December 2015 Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage...
Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health
Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health Sponsored by Save America's Forests, with presentations by: + Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch: Air Pollution and Other Waste Emitted from Biomass Incinerators + William Sammons, M.D. • Biomass Incinerators...
Biofuelwatch Report – Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth
Biofuelwatch has released a new report, 'Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth'. It explores the certification companies certifying biomass as sustainable, the UK government's proposed sustainability criteria for biomass, and developer's 'promises' to source...
Bio-Economies: The EU’s real ‘green economy’ agenda?
Bio-Economies: The EU's real 'green economy' agenda? Report by Ronnie Hall and Joe Zacune, published by Transnational Institute and World Development Movement
Biofuelwatch briefing on industrial biomass
Industrial biomass: How electricity from wood threatens climate, forests and people and why sustainability standards cannot work, Biofuelwatch briefing
Carbon Trade Watch report about UK biomass subsidies and the EU-ETS
Nothing Neutral Here: Large-scale biomass subsidies in the UK and the role of the EU ETS, Carbon Trade Watch report
Bio-economy versus Biodiversity
Bio-economy versus Biodiversity, Report by the Global Forest Coalition
The Flawed Arguments behind Biomass
Response by Robert Palgrave, Biofuelwatch to an article by the Back Biomass Campaign