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Air Quality report slams UK failure to tackle air pollution
Air Quality report slams UK failure to tackle air pollution The Environmental Audit Committee has slammed the UK’s failure to seriously tackle air pollution in a new report, published today[1]. Campaigners are warning that ‘red tape cutting’, in combination with...
Avonmouth biomass gasifier plans rejected by Bristol City Council
Update: The application has since been approved by the Planning Inspectorate, following an appeal by the developer. However, the plant was never built and the planning consent has expired. Last night campaigners won a significant victory in their battle to stop a...
Residents and environmental campaigners to protest against ‘dirty and unsustainable’ biomass gasifier plans for Avonmouth
Residents and environmental campaigners to protest against ‘dirty and unsustainable’ biomass gasifier plans for Avonmouth For immediate release 3rd November 2014 Bristol City Councillors are to be met by air pollution and environmental protesters before Wednesday’s...
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Video of Save our Southern (SOS) Forests Tour in US.
US NGO Dogwood Alliance have released a video of their recent Tour of hotspots of the wood pellet industry in the southern US. They travelled 2,200 miles through 8 states, held 10 community events in 6 different cities and, with the help of 37 diverse partner...
Blazing a trail of deception: the White Rose Project and “negative emissions” technologies
Blazing a trail of deception: the White Rose Project and “negative emissions” technologies by Oliver Munnion, published on OpenDemocracy In the UK, a new coal fired power station is being developed by Drax that, if built, would be the first new coal fired power...
Biomass Gasification & Pyrolysis and the Role of the Green Investment Bank
Biofuelwatch has just published a new report on biomass gasification and pyrolysis (so-called "advanced conversion technologies") in the UK. In addition, a series of questions to the Green Investment Bank has also been published, highlighting serious concerns about...
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Objection to plans by Anglesey Aluminium Metal Renewables to build a biomass electricity generating station at Penrhos Works, Holyhead
Read objection here.
New objection to plans re-submitted by W4BRE Limited to build an Energy Plant adjoining Balaclava Bay, Portland
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US groups open letter on biochar to the Environmental Protection Agency
Open letter signed by 17 US environmental groups.
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
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