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New Report Reveals Dangers and Inconsistencies in Uskmouth Power Station Plans
For immediate release 5th April 2018 For further info: Elizabeth Snook, Biofuelwatch 07595 506673 lizthesnook@googlemail.com New Report Reveals Dangers and Inconsistencies in Uskmouth Power Station Plans A new report launched today by Biofuelwatch brings into...
New report: Grangemouth biomass plant may not be financially viable
PRESS RELEASE 25th October 2017 Grangemouth biomass plant may not be financially viable The new Grangemouth Renewable Energy plant, a biomass CHP (combined heat-and-power) plant, may not be able to be built due to a shortfall in funding, according to a new report....
UK Clean Growth Strategy based on dangerous illusions and false solutions – bioenergy
London 12 October 2017 From Biofuelwatch[1] For immediate release. The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy relies on growth of technologies that are not clean and one that is not feasible. The Clean Growth Strategy[2] speaks throughout of ‘sustainable biomass’, ‘clean’...
Reports, briefings and presentations
GE Trees: Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences
Forests in Crisis - but Biotechnology is not the Solution On 27th March 2018, members of Biofuelwatch and Global Justice Ecology presented evidence to the National Academies of Sciences via a webinar about the impacts and dangers of genetically engineered...
Biomass Basics
What are the problems with big biomass? In a nutshell - there are three problems: 1) It takes huge areas of land and huge quantities of wood to supply a tiny fraction of the energy we use. 2) Burning biomass emits CO2 to the atmosphere, just as burning fossil fuels...
UK Coal Phaseout to be introduced with dangerous loopholes and delays
Biofuelwatch briefing about the UK Government's coal phaseout decision announced in January 2018. "The Government announced in 2015 that it seeks to end coal burning for electricity within a decade, albeit only if “ a shift to new gas can be achieved within these...
Responses
Joint response to the draft High Level Panel of Experts on Biofuels and Food Security report
Response by Biofuelwatch, EcoNexus and Global Forest Coalition to the Draft O report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Biofuels and Food Security Click here to see the draft report and here to see the list of all responses.
Letter to Adur Councillors
Leaflet with letter to Adur Councillors opposing Edgeley Green Power's application for a 32 MW biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea
Objection to application for a biomass gasifier by Energy Park Sutton Bridge Ltd
Biofuelwatch objection to Energy Park Sutton Bridge's planning application for a 48MW biomass gasification plant
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Statement Opposing Promotion of Jatropha cultivation
An Open Letter By Anthra, Adivasi Aikya Vedika and Yakshi, December 2009.
Declaration of the First Congress “Save the Peoples and Forests of Papua”.
Declaration, Port Numbay.
Palm Oil Plantations Will Never Be Sustainable
Open Letter.