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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...
Briefing : Drax’s Coal-to-Biomass conversion increases emissions of dangerous small particles
11th August 2017 Read the report here: Drax and air quality briefing 2017 A new investigation by Biofuelwatch has discovered that since Drax Power Station's part-conversion to burning wood pellets, emissions of dangerous dust particles have increased by 135%. The...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
Joint NGO Briefing: Why PKA must divest from MGT Teesside if it wants to live up to its green credentials
Biofuelwatch, with US and Danish NGOs, has written to the Danish Pension Fund PKA urging them to divest from the 50% equity stake they have taken in the worlds biggest dedicated Biomass combined heat and power plant which is under construction on Teesside. PKA...
Stop Enviva’s planned pellet plant to feed growing UK demand for biomass
Rural Richmond County in North Carolina, already an epicenter of environmental injustice, faces its newest threat from wood pellet plant, Enviva. This proposed plant will supply Enviva's 1m tonne pellet contract with MGT Power's Teesside biomass plant in the UK. ...
Responses
Closing Submission to Grangemouth Public Inquiry
Biofuelwatch was a member of the Grangemouth Community Council Coalition which made representations against a 100MW Biomass Power station proposed for the Port of Grangemouth, in Scotland, in May 2011. The Coalition's closing submission can be found here
Objection to ECO2’s application for a biomass power station near Mendlesham
Biofuelwatch objection to a biomass power station planning application by ECO2 near Mendlesham, Mid Suffolk
Submission on E.On’s Ironbridge conversion permitting application
Biofuelwatch submission to the Environment Agency about E.On's application for a permit variation to permit conversion to biomass
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Declaration with 256 signature organisations.
Declaration of Colombian Social Organizations and Communities Regarding the Intentions of the First Latin American Meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Declaration.
Food is for People not Machines
Communique of the International Conference on Agrofuels supported by 16 African NGOs, Abuja.