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Press releases
Joint Press Release: Danish Pension Fund’s green credentials questioned due to investments that promote burning forests to generate electricity
Biofuelwatch - Dogwood Alliance - NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark - Verdens Skove - Markets for Change FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 21 September, 2017 Danish Pension Fund’s green credentials questioned due to investments that promote burning forests to generate...
Environmental campaigners denounce new “subsidies for forest destruction and air pollution”
11th September 2017 - Following today’s announcement of new subsidies for renewable electricity [1] – called Contracts for Difference [2] – environmental campaign group Biofuelwatch [3] denounces a subsidies award for a large new biomass power station in Grangemouth,...
Joint Press: Planning Inspectorate accused of ignoring Egnedol gasifier impacts on Milford Haven residents and workers
Planning Inspectorate accused of ignoring the health and safety of Milford Haven residents and workers in controversial biomass and waste gasifier application -For immediate release - 8th September 2017 - Environmental campaigners have today sent an Open Letter...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Plume Plotter: Who is Drax polluting right now?
Plume Plotter is showing minute-to-minute details of air pollution caused by Drax, taking account of local weather conditions. See here for full details. And see here for a 2016 animation of Drax's plume. The Plume Plotter is built using one of the...
Grangemouth Renewable Energy Plant: Briefing
Grangemouth Renewable energy biomass power station: An unsustainable, high-risk potential investment In June 2013, the Scottish Government approved a highly controversial planning application by Forth Energy for a 120 MWe biomass “combined heat and power plant” at...
Summary of recent Biomass research
Produced by Biofuelwatch in collaboration with UK and US NGOs. Annotated Bibliography on Biomass Impacts_Oct 4 2017
Responses
Response to Scottish Government Renewables Obligation Banding Review Supplementary Consultation, Part A
Biofuelwatch response to Scottish Government Renewables Obligation Banding Review Supplementary Consultation, Part A
Additional objection to Edgeley Green Power’s biofuel power station application in Shoreham
Additional objection to Edeley Green Power's application to build a biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea (focussing on sustainability)
Objection to RWE’s application for Phase 2 of Tilbury Biomass Conversion
Objection to RWE's application for Phase 2 of Tilbury Biomass Conversion
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Mount Kenya Declaration on the Global Crisis and Africa’s Responsibility
Statement from the African Biodiversity Network.
Letter of critical opposition to the “Round Table on Responsible Soy”
Open letter with over 60 signatures.
Biochar: A New Big Threat to People, Land and Ecosystems
A declaration signed by around 150 organisations worldwide