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Two #AxeDrax protests in one week
In collaboration with Coal Action Network and the London Mining Network, Biofuelwatch went to protest against subsidies for Drax's biomass burning at the new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This department was created to take on some of...
Protest at Drax power station marks 10 years since first ‘Climate Camp’
For immediate release: 22nd October 2016 Protest at Drax power station marks 10 years since first ‘Climate Camp’ Photos are free to use under Creative Commons licence CC BY. Please credit Sebastian Wood/Biofuelwatch This afternoon more than 60 people gathered outside...
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,...
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 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
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
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.