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Campaigners welcome Drax’s decision to pull out of destructive energy project
Campaigners welcome Drax's decision to pull out of destructive energy project: Biofuelwatch Media Advisory, 25th September 2015 Environmental campaigners welcome today’s news that Drax Plc has withdrawn from the proposed White Rose Project. The power station would...
International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood
Press release: Tuesday 8th September, 2015 International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood, warning of their disastrous impacts on biodiversity, communities and climate Briefing published...
Giant White Elephant Delivers Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New Coal Plant Using Public Money
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Thursday, June 18, 2015 CONTACT: Oliver Munnion, 07917693337, oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Suzie Gilbert, 07523 742 072, suzie@fitzgibbonmedia.com Giant White Elephant Delivers Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage
Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Biofuelwatch has released a new comprehensive report about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Full Report Executive Summary (English, Português, Español) (Full...
Who watches the watchmen? Auditors and the breakdown of oversight in the RSPO
Who watches the watchmen? Auditors and the breakdown of oversight in the RSPO, Environmental Investigations Agency and Grassroots
New biomass power stations planned for Port Talbot and Holyhead
[add-this] The proposals Two new biomass power stations in Wales, one in Holyhead, Anglesey and one in Port Talbot in south Wales. Both would be burning virgin wood. Each would be 299MWe (although one report says that the Port Talbot one would be 349MW) and would be...
Responses
Forth Energy, Rosyth
Response to Consent Application by Forth Energy for biomass burning power station in Rosyth, December 2010.
Forth Energy, Grangemouth
Response to Consent Application by Forth Energy for biomass burning power station in Grangemouth.
Renewable Obligation Order 2011 (DECC)
Response to Consultation by DECC on the Renewable Obligation Order 2011.
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Compete With Life And Win The Secret Truth About Prosperity Laws
Open Letter to the European Union by Alert Against the Green Desert Network, Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations, Network for a GM free Latin America, Oilwatch South America, World Rainforest Movement.
“Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making”
Declaration signed by 98 organisations from North and South.