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Government approval of Drax’s BECCS project will cause more forest destruction, campaigners warn
Government approval of Drax’s BECCS project will cause more forest destruction, campaigners warn For immediate release 16th Jan 2024 Secretary of State Claire Coutinho’s decision to approve Drax’s planning application for a carbon capture project, published today [1],...
New Biofuelwatch briefing exposes Tuzla power plant’s planned biomass unit as a dead end
A new briefing by Biofuelwatch, launched today, has revealed that the planned use of biomass energy crops in a new unit at the Tuzla coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an unfeasible and environmentally risky endeavour. 21st December 2023 - The briefing is...
Internationaler Aktionstag gegen Holzverbrennung in Kraftwerken
Protestaktionen gegen das Verbrennen von Holz in Kraftwerken in sechs Städten in Deutschland Pressemitteilung Weltweit protestieren heute Umwelt- und Klimaschutzgruppen dagegen, dass riesige Mengen Holz in (Heiz-)Kraftwerken verbrannt werden, darunter auch in sechs...
Reports, briefings and presentations
FLYING ON GARBAGE? FULCRUM BIOENERGY’S TRASH TALK
Update: In May 2024, Fulcrum closed down its plant in Reno, Nevada, and laid off most employees. For Then, in September 2024, they filed for bankruptcy. more information, click here to read article in The Chemical Engineer. Fulcrum-briefing-Feb-2024-1Download
Short-rotation coppicing: No credible option for fuelling new biomass plants in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Click here to download the briefing Summary: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) is proposing to at least partly convert two coal plant units in Bosnia and Herzegovina to biomass. The company has stated that it would rely largely on Short-Rotation Coppicing (SRC), namely...
Plantažni zasadi kratke ophodnje: nema isplative opcije za razvoj novih postrojenja na plantažnu biomasu u Bosni i Hercegovini
Kliknite ovdje za preuzimanje Sažetak: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) predlaže da se dvije elektrane na ugalj u Bosni i Hercegovini u jednom dijelu konvertuju u postrojenja na biomasu. EPBIH je navela da će se u velikoj mjeri oslanjati na zasade iz plantaža kratke...
Responses
Response to BEIS consultation “Future support for low carbon heat”
7th July 2020 - I am responding to this consultation on behalf of Biofuelwatch. Biofuelwatch has been researching the impacts of large-scale bioenergy since 2006, and advocating for reforms to our energy system would see support shift from high carbon, dirty...
Environmental groups denounce deeply flawed EU consultation on the Climate Target Roadmap 2030
Amsterdam, 23rd June 2020 - Global Forest Coalition is a coalition of 100 NGOs and Indigenous Peoples Organisations who work to protect and defend forests, social justice and the rights of forest peoples. We write to express our deep concerns about the impacts...
Submission to initial consultation on EU 2030 Climate Target Plan
Click here to read the joint submission by Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch to the initial consultation.
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Estonian letter urges Denmark to stop destroying their forests for biomass
Open Letter by Estonians calls on Denmark to stop incentivising the degradation of their forets that is resulting from wood pellet imports for Danish heat and power plants: https://martinluiga.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/art-is-a-hole-in-the-world-9-letter-to-the-danes/...
Open Letter by Polish civil society groups opposed to increased forest wood burning for energy
Letter by 27 environmental and civil society organizations from Poland, to the European Commission, urging them to act to prevent Polish government biomass energy plans which would devastate Polisy forests. Click here to download.
Letter by Polish scientists opposing plans to use more forest wood for energy
Click here to see the original letter in Polish, with the list of signatories. Translation: Warsaw, 27 July 2020 To: 1. Mr. Michał WośMinister of Environment 2. Mr. Tomasz GrodzkiMarshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland Subject: Government bill amending the...