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Press Release: Climate justice campaigners urge new government department to ‘turn a new leaf’ and stop funding the UK’s single biggest carbon emitter, Drax
London, 19th October 2016 – Climate justice campaigners [1] staged a colourful protest outside the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) today, urging ministers to ‘turn a new leaf’ in energy policy and stop funding Drax power station,...
Green Investment Bank “to lose last vestiges of greenness” as a result of a Macquarie Bank takeover, environmental campaign groups warn
Joint press release by Biofuelwatch, UK Without Incineration Network and Coal Action Network 12th October 2016 - Environmental campaign groups warn that the imminent takeover of the UK’s so far publicly owned Green Investment Bank (GIB) by the Australian Macquarie...
Sustainability certificate obtained by Drax ‘reveals UK biomass sustainability standards to be a scam’, say environmental campaigners
[add-this] 5th August 2016 – Biofuelwatch [1], an environmental campaigning organisation warns that a sustainability certificate obtained by Drax plc, whose Yorkshire power station burns more wood than any other plant in the world, reveals the UK’s biomass...
Reports, briefings and presentations
UK Government’s coal phase-out proposal full of loopholes
Loopholes in UK 'coal phase-out' proposals boost coal burning until 2025 and might perpetuate it indefinitely On 9th November 2016, the UK Government released its consultation about a possible phase-out of coal in 2025, called “Coal Generation in Great Britain: The...
Pentland ‘film studio’ planning application could lead to a large, polluting biomass power station
Why Scottish Ministers must reject “multi-purpose development” proposal by Pentland Studios Ltd
Policy briefing on UK biomass subsidies
Subsidies for biomass electricity must be stopped and diverted to low-carbon renewables and energy saving measures Executive Summary: In 2015, energy companies received £817 million in UK subsidies for burning solid biomass for electricity, the vast majority of it...
Responses
Biofuelwatch objection to Peel Energy application for a biomass power station in Trafford
Biofuelwatch objection to Peel Energy's application for a 20 MW biomass power station at Davyhulme, Trafford
Biofuelwatch objection to Rocpower’s amended biofuel power station application, Barnsley
Objection to Rocpower's amended biofuel power station application at Barugh Green, Barnsley
Biofuelwatch objection to EcoPellets’ application for a ‘Biomass Energy Development’, Llangefni
Objection to EcoPellets' planning application for biofuel and biomass plants and a wood pellet factory at Llangefni, Anglesey
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Declaration on agrofuels
Declaration issued by Friends of the Earth International.
Declaration for Food and Energy Sovereignty
Declaration by 500 participants of the 1st National and Popular Conference on Agroenergy in Brazil, representing the movements of Via Campesina, environmentalists, worker's unions and pastorals.
Madre Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuels
Press Release, madre.org