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Press releases
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...
US Dept. of Agriculture Receives Near Unanimous Public Rejection of GE Trees
Statement from Biofuelwatch, Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous Environmental Network 19 July 2017 New York (US)–New Zealand-owned tree biotechnology company ArborGen faces near unanimous opposition to commercial deregulation of their...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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. ...
Biotechnology for Biofuels
“Biotechnology for Biofuels” includes in-depth investigations of three biofuel companies – Algenol, Mascoma, and Solazyme/TerraVia, and will be updated with forthcoming reports on algae and cellulosic biofuels, followed by further materials. Click here to view.
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.