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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...
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...
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
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
Biofuelwatch response to “Consultations on changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation to transpose the Renewable Energy Directive and changes to the Fuel Quality Directive
Biofuelwatch response to "Consultations on changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation to transpose the Renewable Energy Directive and changes to the Fuel Quality Directive
US Dept of Agriculture – technical guidelines on GHG emissions & carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry
Biofuelwatch comments to US Department of Agriculture on “Development of Technical Guidelines and Scientific Methods for Quantifying GHG Emissions and Carbon Sequestration for Agricultural and Forestry Activities” April 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.