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Press releases
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...
E.On’s ambitious wood power station plans in France pose threat to forests
Open Letter: E.On’s ambitious wood power station plans in France pose threat to forests - for immediate release - Press release by Biofuelwatch, Denkhaus Bremen and SOS Forêt du Sud [add-this] 30th June 2016 – 26 civil society society groups worldwide have sent an...
UK’s largest power station hit by simultaneous protests at AGM in London and in Yorkshire, protesters demanding an end to subsidies
For immediate release London, 20th April 2016 - Environmental and human rights activists have gathered in London today for a colourful protest organised by Biofuelwatch [1] and Coal Action Network. [2] The protest targeted the AGM of Drax PLC, whose power station in...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
No Place for Gene Drives in Conservation
A Call For Conservation with Conscience: No Place For Gene Drives in Conservation. A letter initiated by the Civil Society Working Group on Gene Drives, signed by scientists and civil society organisations
EPH-owned Lynemouth Power Station: Impacts on Forests and Communities
The briefing was fully updated 1st May 2023 Click here to download the full version with photos and references. Lynemouth Power Station in Northumberland is the UK’s second biggest biomass power station after Drax. Lynemouth, like Drax Power Station, burns...
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
Madre Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuels
Press Release, madre.org
Farmers, indigenous peoples and settlers ask President Evo Morales of Bolivia to reject agrofuels
Read the declaration here.
Quito Declaration from the Communities Potentially Affected by Agrofuels
This declaration was read to the Minister of Energy of Ecuador, Quito, 29 June 2007.