Events and Protests
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Edinburgh Green Bank Annual Review Protest Photos
Credit: Alice Myers
Protesters target Green Bank Annual Review over dirty investments
Biofuelwatch media release – for immediate use Wednesday 25th June Protesters target Green Bank Annual Review over dirty investments Photographs available here: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2014/london-gib-photos/ Environmental groups [1] staged a protest at the...
London GIB Annual review Photos
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Second Open letter to Green Bank from Avonmouth residents calls to an end to big biomass investments
At the Green Investment Bank's London Annual Review today a Biofuelwatch campaigner handed the bank an open letter signed by Avonmouth residents and organisations involved in the campaign to stop Helius Energy's big biomass power station in Avonmouth. Residents have...
Open Letter to Green Bank calls for end to biomass investments
18 organisations and individuals including three MSPs, Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth Scotland and residents of impacted areas, have published an open letter (see below) to the Green Investment Bank ahead of its Annual Review in Edinburgh this week. The letter...
Anti-biomass and coal Campaigners disrupt Drax AGM and call for UK’s most polluting power station to close
For immediate use Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Photographs available here: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2014/drax-protest-photos/ Media Contacts: Oliver Munnion on 07917693337 or oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Duncan Law 07958635181 or dl@duncanlaw.co.uk Almuth...
Drax Protest Photos
April Protests Against Big Biomass in the UK
Drax AGM Protest: No to Coal and Biomass, 23rd April Campaigners disrupted the Drax AGM by unfurling a banner reading "No to biomass and coal – shut down Drax" and and accusing company directors of misleading the public over claims that their biomass conversion is...
Drax AGM 2014 – No to coal and biomass!
23rd April // 12:00 // The Grocers’ Hall, Princes Street, London EC2R 8AD Drax power station in Yorkshire is converting 3 of its 6 units to run on biomass. Since its last AGM it has converted and opened one unit and burned up to 5.5 million tonnes of green wood...
DECC announced as winner of Biomess Award as major biomass industry conference is targeted by environmentalists
For immediate use Thursday 10th April 2014 Media Contacts: Oliver Munnion on 07917693337 or oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Photographs available here: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/biomess-awards/biomess-awardsphotos/ DECC announced as winner of Biomess Award as...
DECC to be announced as winner of Biomess Award as campaigners target major biomass industry conference today
Please note: Last minute venue change for #biomessawards - please meet at 7pm at Grange St Paul's Hotel, 10 Godliman St, EC4V 5AJ - just south of St Pauls, in from Café Rouge Photographs will be available from our website shortly after the event...
Videos from the handover of NGO Open Letter to HM Treasury
Videos from the handover of the Open Letter "Prequalified biomass and waste incineration projects must be rejected from the UK" by Friends of the Earth, Biofuelwatch, UK Without Incineration Network and Campaign Against Climate change to HM Treasury: + Speech by...