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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...
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...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
Video: #AxeDrax: North Carolina farmers speak out about the destruction of their forests
Video with interviews with farmers from North Carolina speaking about the destruction of forests in their region to make pellets which are burned by Drax
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat [Update: In March 2016,Solazyme announced that they are changing their name to TerraVia] A Biofuelwatch investigation of a Californian company which has...
Responses
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves application in Sheffield
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves/Rocpower application in Ecclesfield, Sheffield
Response to Consent Application by Forth Energy for biomass burning power station in Leith
Objection to Forth Energy's biomass application in Leith
Electricity Market Reform
DECC Consultation on Electricity Market Reform, 23rd February 2011
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
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
“In defence of food sovereignty and biodiversity”
Declaration of the First Patagonian Conference on Biofuels, Argentina, signed by Coalition of Popular Assemblies of the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro and Neuquen, Patagonia, Public Workers Union (ATE), Argentine Central Workers Association (CTA), Provincial Teachers...
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps
Declaration, Paraguay, signed by ALTER VIDA, ASAGRAPA, BASE IS, CCDA, CEIDRA, CMB, CNOCIP, CONAMURI, Federacion de Pueblos Guaranies, GRR (Arg), IDECO, Iniciativa Paraguaya de Integracion de los Pueblos, MAP, MCNOC, ONAC, SEPA, SERPAJ, PY, SOBREVIVENCIA/Friends of the...