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Climate victory for students as university drops Drax. Who’s next?
23rd June 2020 - Student climate campaigners from the University of Sheffield have enjoyed a huge victory as the university has decided to stop using dirty electricity supplied by Drax Group,[1] which generates electricity mostly by burning biomass from trees. The...
Press release: Campaigners warn consultation loophole could lead to more subsidies for forest destruction
London, 29th May 2020 - Today, hundreds of environmental campaigners are calling on the UK Government to take urgent climate action by ensuring that future renewable subsidies are not used to fund burning trees in UK power stations. Over 800 individuals [1] as well as...
Biomass report by Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency slammed as a “greenwash” by international environment campaigners
Amsterdam, 8th May, 2020 - Today’s publication of a long-awaited biomass report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has been greeted with alarm by international environmental organizations [1] who denounce it for failing for biomass subsidies in the...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Ausstellung Klimakiller Holzverbrennung in Großkraftwerken
Holzverbrennug in Großkraftwerken wird als klimaneutral beworben. Warum ist das eine völlige Fehlinformation? Wo wird das schon praktiziert und was sind die Auswirkungen? Woher kommt das Holz, das verfeuert wird? Brauchen wir Kraftwerke, die Holz verfeuern und wie...
Big Biomass in Portugal
Report by ZERO - Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável and Biofuelwatch Click here to download. Conclusion: Although in theory Portugal’s biomass power and pellet sectors only use residues and industrial waste, in reality what we are seeing is the unsustainable...
The Multiple Failures of Black Pellet Technologies
A recent history of of false promises, company bankruptcies and mothballed plants Biofuelwatch investigation into attempts fo produce black pellets (thorugh torrefaction, steam explosion, or hydrothermal carbonisation) on a commercial scale, 27th September 2021 - ...
Responses
Objection to Planning Appeal by PSL Land Ltd for a mixed use development
Biofuelwatch objection to an Appeal by PSL Land Ltd related to a planning application by Pentland Studios Ltd for a mixed use development in Midlothian which may or may not involve a mainly biomass energy centre of up to 100 MW capacity
Biofuelwatch response to DECC consultation about Feed-in tariffs for biogas
Biofuelwatch response to the biogas-related questions of the consultation "Review of support for Anaerobic Digestion and micro-Combined Heat and Power under the Feed-in Tariffs scheme"
Comments on Egnedol’s Environmental Impact Assessment for their proposed Blackbridge development
Joint submission by Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth Cymru and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth about Egnedol's pre-application consultation for a proposed 49.9 MWe waste and biomass gasification plant with associated developments, including algal biofuels,...
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Forests not Fuel
Forests not Fuel, Global Forest Coalition's statement from the 1st International Meeting on Wood-based Bioenergy - Asuncion, Paraguay, 20th to 21st November 2014
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries, See here for the list of organisations which signed the declaration
Open Letter to European Commission opposing biodiversity offsets
Open Letter to the European Commission signed by over 600 organisations and over 10,000 individuals opposing biodiversity offsetting