A lively protest - complete with cake and burning trees for candles - took place to coincide with the Green Investment Bank's 2nd birthday event, where the bank's vision for 2020 was set out. We were calling on the bank to ditch its dirty and polluting investments in...
NGOs: GREATER GIB POWERS SHOULD COME WITH GREENER RESPONSIBILITY Ed Miliband has called for the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to have “real powers to borrow and attract investment". The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) and Biofuelwatch [1] have...
We'll be speaking at a Transition & Friends of the Earth Hull meeting in November, and the topic of False Green Solutions and the impacts of industrial bioenergy. Monday 10th November, 7pm, Boulevard Village Hall, Hull HU3 3EJ.
Fires and explosions at biomass power infrastructure are common occurrences. The two documents linked below were put together by PT-RAPS, Port Talbot Residents Against Power Stations, and list 76 reported pellet fires and wood dust explosions over a four year period,...
For immediate use Wednesday 23rd April 2014 Photographs available here: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2014/drax-protest-photos/ Media Contacts: Oliver Munnion on 07917693337 or oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Duncan Law 07958635181 or dl@duncanlaw.co.uk Almuth...
Joint press release by: Biofuelwatch, London Mining Network, Friends of the Earth, Colombia Solidarity Campaign & Coal Action Network. For immediate use Monday 16th December 2013. Coal and biomass campaigners hit out at DECC “greenwash” over Drax conversion...
BIOFUELWATCH MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE USE 30TH OCTOBER 2013 Media Contact: Oliver Munnion 07917693337 Link to report & Executive Summary: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2013/chain-of-destruction/ Photographs available upon request New report highlights...
Biofuelwatch media release – for immediate use Thursday 15th August 2013 Media Contact: Oliver Munnion 07917693337 Chris Huhne's new job sheds light on cosy relationship between DECC and energy companies The recent revelation that former Secretary of State for Energy...
Update: Forth Energy eventually abandoned plans for biomass power stations in Scotland. The planning consent granted for this plant in Grangemouth expired in 2019: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2018/grangemouth-success/ Biofuelwatch briefing: Will the Scottish...
Forth Energy’s proposed biomass power station for Dundee: A closer look at the company’s claims about air quality impacts, sustainability, efficiency and jobs, and why this is happening, Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth Tayside
Biofuelwatch meets with representatives of the bank to discuss their investments into big biomass. On the 20th of March Biofuelwatch were invited to attend a meeting with the Green Investment Bank (GIB). The request came in response to an e-alert that Biofuelwatch...
RES Biomass Power Station proposal for Alexandra Dock, Port of Liverpool: Local and wider threats, Biofuelwatch background briefing
Read our briefing on a 80MW Biomass Power Station Proposed for Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria here
Biofuelwatch Briefing: ‘The Reality Project’ on the Isle of Wight – Local and global threats
Biofuelwatch Briefing about a proposed 100 MW biomass power station by RES Biomass Energy in North Blyth.