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Press releases
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...
Press release: Drax targeted at power station in Yorkshire, on day of company AGM
Drax is the largest coal-fired power station and the single greatest emitter of carbon in the UK and is now the biggest biomass power station in the world. People and Planet Sheffield, a human rights and environmental activist group, is protesting at Drax Power...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
Biofuelwatch briefing about Egnedol’s proposed Blackbridge Biomass Gasification plant in Milford Haven
The Blackbridge Biomass Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven: A high-risk, unproven technology for burning wood and waste [add-this] This is a fully updated briefing about Egnedol's proposal to build a 49.9 MWe waste and biomass gasification plant at Blackbridge,...
Responses
Response by 31 groups to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to exempt CO2 emissions from combustion of biomass from the Clean Air Act regulation
Response by 31 groups to the US Environmental Protection Agency's recent decision to exempt CO2 emissions from combustion of biomass from the Clean Air Act regulation, July 2011
Response to second consultation on Forth Energy’s Grangemouth biomass application
Response to second consultation on Forth Energy's Grangemouth biomass application
Biofuelwatch objection to “Rocpower’s re-submitted planning application for an 8 MW biofuel power station at Warren Lane, Bramham”
Biofuelwatch objection to "Rocpower's re-submitted planning application for an 8 MW biofuel power station at Warren Lane, Bramham”, 10th June 2011
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
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.
Report of the verification field trip on the expansion of African palm monoculture in northern Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Report signed by members of 29 organisations.