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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...
What state-of-the-art trains? Power station’s sloppy supply chain covers roads with wood dust
Monday 28th August 2017 A press release from Action North Killingholme In recent weeks, residents of North & South Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, have been subjected to 24-hour heavy traffic leaving trails of wood dust and bits of pellets strewn on their roads...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Aviation biofuels: How ICAO and industry plans could lead to planes flying on palm oil
New Biofuelwatch report on aviation biofuels released 6th October 2017 How biofuels fit in with the aviation industry’s and ICAO’s growth strategy Aviation biofuels: the state of play Unlikely contenders: Aviation biofuels made from anything other than vegetable oils...
6th October: Aviation biofuels and what ICAO’s proposals will really mean
Report on aviation biofuels raises alarm about links to land grabs, rainforest destruction As the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) prepares to hold a high level conference on alternative aviation fuels from 11-13 October, Biofuelwatch campaigners are...
New report argues algae biofuels are overhyped and unacceptably risky
Latest in Biotechnology for Biofuels series September 26, 2017 As the Bio-Based Live Americas conference meets today to discuss topics including industrial scale production of biofuels and chemicals via genetically engineered (GE) microorganisms such as GE algae, a...
Responses
Response to 2012 DECC consultation on capping ROCs for some types of bioenergy
“Biomass Electricity and Combined Heat and Power Plants – ensuring sustainability and affordability”
Objection to Estover Energy’s proposed biomass plant at Craigellachie
Biofuelwatch objection to proposed biomass plant by Estover Energy at Craigellachie Wood, Moray
First Biofuelwatch objection to Edgeley Green Power’s biofuel power station in Shoreham
First Biofuelwatch objection to Edgeley Green Power's application for a biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea (focussing on air quality impacts)
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Agrofuels: The new frontier for genetically modified organism’s (GMOs)
Declaration towards the International Biofuels Conference in Brazil. Red por una America Latina Libre de Transgenicos (RALLT) and African Centre for Biosafety.
Declaration from the International Seminar: Agrofuels as an Obstactle to Food and Energy Sovereignty
Declaration from the international seminar, São Paulo, 17-19 November 2008.
International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Declaration with 256 signature organisations.