Biofuelwatch response to European Commission consultation about methodologies and rules for "carbon removals" from Direct Air Capture with CCS (DACCS), bioenergy with CCS (BioCCS) and biochar. Click here to download
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UK press release about report on BECCS and carbon capture from waste incineration
New report exposes claims made about bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to be based on hype, not real-world experience - for immediate release - 28th November 2022 - Today, Biofuelwatch has released a comprehensive report about carbon capture from...
Press release about report on BECCS and carbon capture from waste incineration
New report exposes claims made about bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to be based on hype, not real-world experience 28th November 2022 - Today, Biofuelwatch has released a comprehensive report about carbon capture from biomass power and heat plants...
Carbon capture from biomass and waste incineration: Hype versus reality
Full Report Executive Summary Executive Summary in German / Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch Executive Summary: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) has been gaining traction in the debate around climate change mitigation, with governments developing funding...
BECCS Factsheet April 2023
Download our BECCS factsheet with a focus on Drax's proposal to capture CO2 from two of its large biomass units in Yorkshire.
Drax admits lack of data about its own BECCS proposals
Written Responses from Drax Consultation Team from between 17th and 23rd of December 2021 Drax has also responded to questions from Biofuelwatch during a consultation in March 2021, in which it admitted that it had no real-world for capturing carbon from their biomass...
Biofuelwatch response to Call For Evidence on NETs from Environmental Audit Committee October 2021
Biofuelwatch was pleased to submit this response to a Call For Evidence on Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) including Direct Air Capture (DAC) and Bio-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) from the Environmental Audit Committee in October 2021. The...
Drax Plc’s carbon capture claims not based on any real-world evidence, company reveals to campaigners
Drax’s carbon capture announcements claims appear motivated by quest for new multi-billion pound subsidies, environmental campaigners warn For immediate release London, 14th June 2021 - The environmental campaign group Biofuelwatch is today publishing...
Drax admits lack of any real-world evidence for capturing carbon from their biomass units
WRITTEN Responses from Drax Consultation Team 15/3/2021 Drax has also responded to questions from Biofuelwatch during a consultation in November 2021, in which it admitted a shocking lack of data about its own BECCS proposals. [Comments/explanations in green added by...
NEW BOOK UNCOVERS CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FLAWS AHEAD OF EARTH DAY
At a time when governments are rolling out climate change policies around the world, activists and experts from climate and environmental justice groups across North America and globally are explaining why real climate solutions must go beyond the greening of...
Consultation response about carbon capture in UK
Biofuelwatch response to UK government consultation "Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): business models"
BECCS: Discourse about unicorns descends into real-world farce
This month’s “breaking news” on BECCS: Small UK startup company to test some unproven new solvent nobody’s published anything about in order to help Drax put fizz into beer The ‘world’s first’ Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) ‘pilot project’ has...
UK Clean Growth Strategy based on dangerous illusions and false solutions – bioenergy
London 12 October 2017 From Biofuelwatch[1] For immediate release. The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy relies on growth of technologies that are not clean and one that is not feasible. The Clean Growth Strategy[2] speaks throughout of ‘sustainable biomass’, ‘clean’...
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...
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...
Power station petition signed by over 110,000 to be handed to DECC by giant White Elephant
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, June 18, 2015 CONTACT: Oliver Munnion, 07917693337, oli.munnion@biofuelwatch.org.uk Suzie Gilbert, 07523 742 072, suzie@fitzgibbonmedia.com Activists To Deliver Over 110,000 Signatures to Demand UK Stop Funding New Coal Plant Using...
100k people say NO to new power station at Drax: petition hand-in
18th June 2015 · 09:00-10:00 · DECC 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW Join the facebook page here! The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is planning to award up to £1bn in support for a new coal and biomass power station at Drax. The White Rose Project,...