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Company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology
Campaigners obtain evidence that company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology 27th January 2017 - A Biofuelwatch Freedom of Information request has revealed that...
Joint Press Release about Egnedol directors having been behind failed gasification scheme
Joint Press Release by Biofuelwatch and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth Campaigners obtain evidence that company directors behind Milford Haven plans for a waste and biomass gasifiers were behind a smaller, failed development using that same technology 27th January...
Joint Press Release about Egnedol’s Application for a Large Waste and Biomass Gasification Plant in Milford Haven
Environmental Campaigners Vow to Fight Egnedol’s Milford Haven waste and biomass plans, Joint Press release by Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth and Biofuelwatch
Reports, briefings and presentations
Algenol: Case study of an unsuccessful algae biofuels venture
Executive Summary Algenol is a Florida-based biotechnology company that has received considerable attention as one of the most promising algae biofuel startups. Since its founding in 2006, the company has received $35 - $50 million in public support, alongside tens of...
Orthios Group’s Holyhead Biomass Plans: A new threat to forests – or just a sci-fi idea?
Update: The company no longer exists, and administration (bankruptcy) proceedings began in 2021. There is now no possibility of a biomass plant being built at the site. Click here to download the report Summary: Orthios Group wants to build the world’s largest biomass...
NGO Letter urging the UK’s Treasury to stop future biomass subsidies
Open Letter to the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, calling for and end to new biomass electricity subsidies awards by NRDC, Southern Environmental Law Center, Dogwood Alliance, Partnership for Policy Integrity, Biofuelwatch, and Fern
Responses
Biofuelwatch comments on EcoPellets’ additional planning documents, Llangefni
Biofuelwatch comments on EcoPellets' additional planning documents submitted during a second consultation period
Open Letter against ROCs for biomass and bioliquids
Open letter to the UK and Scottish Governments relating to the Renewables Obligation Banding Consultation Signed by 87 organisations worldwide
Objection to E.On’s application related to partial Ironbridge conversion to biomass
Biofuelwatch objection to E.On's application for fuel storage for wood pellets associated with planned partial conversion of Ironbridge Power Station to biomass
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Declaration Against RTRS Soya Greenwash
Declaration by social justice, indigenous and rural organisations and urban movements of Argentina, Latin America and other continents, who reject the ”third roundtable on responsible soy” to be held on April 23 and 24 at the Hilton Hotel, Buenos Aires,...
Statement about ‘sustainable palm oil’ by organisations from Colombia and Ecuador
Statement signed by 12 organisations, (see also original Spanish version: Acciones de resistencia frente a los agrocombustibles), 18-19th September 2007.
Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina
Response to the responsible soya proposal and to the round tables held by agri-business and their collaborators.