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Protests in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and the UK against Vattenfall’s continued investments in high-carbon biomass plants
29th April 2024 – Protests are taking place in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and the UK coinciding with Vattenfall’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) against Vattenfall’s investments in wood bioenergy as well as continued fossil fuel burning. This internationally...
Tag des Baumes: Neues Bündnis protestiert gegen Ausweitung der HolzenergieTag des Baumes: Neues Bündnis protestiert gegen Ausweitung der Holzenergie
Pressemitteilung von „Ausgebrannt – Bündnis gegen die Verbrennung von Biomasse“ 15.4.2024 - Zum „Internationalen Tag des Baumes“ findet heute ein gemeinsamer Aktionstag des von regionalen und nationalen Umweltorganisationen und Forschenden neu gegründeten Bündnisses...
Biofuelwatch issues legal challenge to decision to allow carbon capture installation at Drax power plant
Biofuelwatch UK has issued a High Court legal challenge to the decision to grant Drax Power Limited consent to install carbon capture technology at the Yorkshire biomass power plant. It would effectively allow the generation of electricity from burning almost entirely...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
Pläne zur Ausweitung der Holzverbrennung für die Berliner Fernwärme
Gemeinsames Informationspapier, veröffentlicht von NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch, Greenpeace Berlin, BUND Landesverband Berlin, PowerShift und Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz Aktualisierte Version, Januar 2025 Zusammenfassung: Der Großteil des...
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...
Responses
Joint objection to RWE’s permit application for doubling wood pellet burning in Eemshaven, NL
Joint objection by Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance, Southern Environmental Law Center and Estonian Fund for Nature to RWE's permit application for doubling the amount of wood pellets they can burn in the Eemshaven Power Station, Province of...
Response to USDA on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad
Our colleague in the US, Rachel Smolker, has written a response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as they sought input from the public on 'Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'. In the response it is made clear that we do not support the...
UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS
9 environmental organisations warn the UK government about the risks associated with Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) Read full statement here
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Open Letter opposing the proposed US Forest Health and Biomass Energy Actof 2020
Click here to read the full version with the signatories 18th November 2020 Dear Senators, We the undersigned conservation, climate, environmental justice, and faith-basedorganizations and individuals urge you to oppose S. 4603, "The Forest Health and Biomass Energy...
Open Letter: Germany must not subsidise replacing coal with forest biomass
Open Letter by Estonian and US environmental NGOs to members of the Bundesrat and other German Policymakers Click here for the German version of the letter Germany must not subsidise replacing coal with forest biomass Proposals for burning forest wood instead of coal...
Joint Statement against the import of Namibian bushwood for use in power and heat plants in Hamburg
Click here to read the statement with the full list of signatories. Hamburg, 9th October 2020 - The Hamburg Ministry for Environment and Energy and Wärme Hamburg GmbH (the heat production and distribution company owned by the City of Hamburg) are currently assessing a...