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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
New Renewable Energy Directive useless if large-scale bioenergy included, environmental justice campaigners warn
Press release by Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch, Woodland League, Econexus, Biofuelwatch, Transnational Institute, Friends of the Earth Denmark (NOAH), Corporate Europe Observatory, and Amis de l'Afrique Francophone- Bénin Brussels, 30 November 2016 The revised...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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
Conversation with Ecotricity about their “green gas from gas” proposal
In December 2016, Biofuelwatch published a background briefing about Ecotricity's "green gas from grass" (i.e. grass-based biomethane) proposals: "How Green is Ecotricity's Green Gas from Grass" Ecotricity has now sent us a response to this briefing. You...
Responses
Peboc, Llangefni: Submission to Environment Agency
Biofuelwatch submission to the Environment Agency regarding EcoPellets' application for an Environmental Permit for biomass and bioliquids CHP plants and a pellet factory at Llangefni, Anglesey
Joint UK NGO letter re Committee on Climate Change Review
Open Letter by RSPB, Friends of the Earth, ActionAid, Greenpeace, Biofuelwatch and Oxfam to Lord turner, Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change, which is conducting a Bioenergy Review.
Biofuelwatch Reponse to Peel Energy’s Addendum on Air Quality (Trafford)
Biofuelwatch response to Peel Energy's Addendum on Air Quality, for a proposed 20 MW Biomass power station at Trafford, near Manchester
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
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.
Gender and Climate Change Caucus – MADRE statement on Agrofuels
http://www.wrm.org.uy/actors/CCC/Bali/Women_Agrofuels.pdf