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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...
Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market
For Immediate Release: April 6th, 2016 Contact: Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Co-Director, +44 131 6232 600, biofuelwatch@ymail.com Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market Edinburgh, Scotland –Today...
Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven
Biofuelwatch press release for immediate use: 17 February 2016 Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven An environmental campaigning organisation has today published a report [1] on a biomass gasification...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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,...
Mascoma: The biggest mis-spending of public funds for cellulosic biofuels ever?
Biofuelwatch investigation into Mascoma Corporation, who took at least $100 million and possibly over $155 million in public subsidies, mostly for building commercial cellulosic ethanol refineries which they never started to build. [add-this] Executive Summary: This...
New summary BECCS report: Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking?
Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Foundation, has re-released a summarised version of "Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage". It offers the first critical and in-depth analysis of a technology that...
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
Report of the verification field trip on the expansion of African palm monoculture in northern Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Report signed by members of 29 organisations.
Response by five African NGOs to UK biofuel targets
Response to UK biofuel consultation, by Africa Biodiversity Network, Kenya; Melca Mahiber, Ethiopia; Envirocare, Tanzania; Climate and Development Initiatives, Uganda; Nature Tropicale, Benin.
Open Letter against GM trees for biofuels
Open Letter signed by 55 organisations from North to South.