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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
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...
Open Letter to UNCTAD: Withdraw misleading advanced biofuels report
Today Biofuelwatch and six other groups (Center for Biological Diversity, ETC Group, Friends of the Earth U.S., Global Justice Ecology Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and International Center for Technology Assessment) have called on the UN...
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
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.
Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures
Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures