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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
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering
---> Click here to view the report <--- “The Big Bad Fix – The Case Against Climate Geoengineering,” a report released today by ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Heinrich Böll Foundation, warns that geoengineering (the large-scale manipulation of the climate) is...
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering
Joint report by Heinrich Böll Foundation, ETC Group and Biofuelwatch, 6th December 2017 Click here to download: https://www.boell.de/en/2017/12/01/big-bad-fix-case-against-geoengineering The “Big Bad Fix” provides policy makers, journalists, NGO...
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...
Responses
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
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)
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Abandon False Solutions. Abandon Biofuels.
Press Statement by Peasant Movement of the Philippines, National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines, People's Action on Climate Change.
Malaysian Indigenous Peoples want moratorium on plantations, other extractive projects
Declaration by Malaysian Indigenous Peoples Organisations Coalition.
Mount Kenya Declaration on the Global Crisis and Africa’s Responsibility
Statement from the African Biodiversity Network.