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Biofuelwatch
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We work to protect climate, forests, biodiversity and communities from destructive impacts of large-scale bioenergy, Website: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk Email: biofuelwatch[at]gmail[dot]com
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Drax power station has been granted permission to increase hazardous emission from one of its wood pellet plants in the US, but both at home and abroad people aren’t taking Dirty Drax’s polluting practices lying down
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Rally at Drax’s permit hearing at the MDEQ’s headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi. A number of people with a banner saying 'Standing In Solidarity' and another saying 'Clean Air For Gloster Vote No! On Drax'. Credit Dogwood Alliance. Liverpool sends solidarity to Gloster residents at the International Day of Action Against Big Biomass protest outside the slavery museum at the Albert Dock in Liverpool. Protesters hold up letters spelling out We Stand With Gloster. Credit @butch_photographer
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Happening tomorrow: globaljusticeecology.org/the-wild-ame... - Film screening about how American chestnuts can recover without #GETrees. Go to the link to register on Zoom, 7pm Eastern Time, midnight UK time
Photo showing bur with catkin from an American chestnut tree
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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We join over 100 businesses, investors & civil society voices with one message: implement the EU Deforestation Regulation now: www.clientearth.org/latest/docum... #EUDR No more delays!
Photo of a rainforest in the mist. Caption: No more delays. Stop deforestation now.
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Illusory Emissions Reductions from #Biofuels Undermine California Progress on Climate - Article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social exposes how ~45% of recent ghg reductions are attributed to "renewable diesel" which is no better for the climate than fossil fuels: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/illusor...
Photo of a large oil refinery. Text: Martinez refinery in California converted to biofuels by Marathon and Neste
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Interesting documentary by @peteknapp.bsky.social about forest fires in Spain, Portugal, Sicily and Greece, the political context and how communities are organising (e.g. against eucalyptus plantations in PT). See here for list of screenings across England: fires-and-fascism.co.uk
Photo with fire-coloured letters on black saying "Fires and Fascism"
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Our "Drax the Destroyer" banner at last Saturday's Climate March in London during Global Day of Action for #COP30 #AxeDrax
Photo of activists and banners. Visible banners say "Cancel Debt", "Drax the destroyer" and "We stand with forest defenders, Friends of the Earth". Also to see are three Extinction Rebellion flags/
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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We note with concern calls by Toyota for ethanol expansion from Brazilian sugarcane as road fuel in the context of COP30. Sugarcane monocultures harm biodiversity and lead to carbon sink loss. Painting this as ‘sustainable’ is greenwashing. We call on delegates at COP to oppose sugarcane expansion.
An image of a white car, into which crops are being fed and from which a plume of polluted smoke is emerging. There is a Toyota logo on the roof which has been partially painted over with green and marked with the word 'greenwashing'. Text to the left says 'no ethanol greenwash at COP30! Toyota's calls for expanding sugarcane cultivation demonstrate a reckless disregard for people and planet - as well as a dishonest approach to decarbonisation targets.'
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Last month, we were at @imohq.bsky.social, urging #shipping to exclude biofuels from its transition. After the Belém 4x pledge at COP30 to increase #biofuel production, our call is more urgent. Biofuels cause deforestation and more emissions than fossil fuels. STOP their use!

#biofuels #SAF
Two banners with an inflatable palm tree between them. The left-hand banner says 'biofuels are a climate disaster', while the one on the right says 'IMO: Don't fuel deforestation!'
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Investigation by @stand.earth confirms Drax is still turning ancient trees from oldgrowth forests in BC into wood pellets to burn itself and to sell to others.Yet last week, the govt. signed a new subsidy contract with Drax for 2027-31. #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass
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Photo of large log piles and heavy loads vehicles. Caption: Aerial image of log piles in the image above at Drax's Burns Lakes wood pellet plant log yard. Photo by Desiree Wallace / Stand.earth, June 2025
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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GOVERNMENT SIGNS UP TO 4 MORE YEARS OF TREE BURNING AT DRAX read more here www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/governm...
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Interesting insights into Drax Group by Old Sparky in Private Eye. Easier to read if you can buy the magazine. According to the article, staff had raised serious concerns re sustainability prior to Drax's acquisition of Pinnacle Pellets' plants in western Canada (We told the shareholders then, btw.)
Biting the pellet - As the Financial Conduit Authority investigates potentially criminal misdeeds at tree-burning energy company Drax, information reaches the Eye which the FCA might add to its agenda, Old Sparky writes. The authority needs to establish whether known falsehoods in Drax pronouncements about the sustainability about its fuel sourcing were made deliberately, recklessly or negligently. So investigators will be interested to learn that, when Drax acquired Canadian wood pellet manufacturer Pinnacle in 2021, Drax staff and advisors conducting due diligence on the transaction raised red flags about the sustainability of Pinnacle's wood pellets which fuelled Drax then as now; and Pinnacle's 'class 2' logging licenses for felling whole, healthy trees. [More content, but this is the important finding we highlight.]
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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New report exposes the scale of #biomass subsidies worldwide: #BigBadBiomass Energy = No climate benefit, forests clearcut: shamefully promoted by $250 billion spent in subsidies globally. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
Graphic showing a bucket full of money being emptied over a power station and tree stumps and, on the other side, a tree with and owl, squirrel and fox. Text: Cut subsidies not forests.
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests​. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Campaigners urge the International Maritime Organisation to keep #biofuels out of the net-zero framework after vote on the framework postponed, describe biofuels as threat to forests, climate and communities: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/imo-bio... @gfc-forest.bsky.social @imohq.bsky.social
Photo of people holding a large banner saying "No to biofuels in shipping", with plastic blow-up palms on either side. In front of the large ship model outside the International Maritime Organisation's head office.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Soon the IMO will meet to vote on their new Net Zero Framework.

Biofuels cannot be included: they only drive deforestation and land theft.

Join us at 9am on 20th October outside IMO headquarters to call for real climate solutions, including demand reduction.

actionnetwork.org/events/tell-...
Image of a large container ship. There is a cartoon bottle of palm oil in a circle with a line struck through it in one corner. Text below reads 'Join us to tell the IMO: No biofuels in shipping!' The biofuelwatch logo is in the bottom left corner.
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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#AxeDrax banner at the #MakePollutersPay march last weekend!
Photo showing demonstrators in a London street in front of a large plastic barrel saying "Make Polluters Pay" and, in front of it, a banner saying "Drax the destroyer".
September 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🌏We're delighted to be joined by @friends-earth.bsky.social , @globalactionplan.bsky.social , @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social & @stopburningtrees.bsky.social to discuss the hidden environmental impacts of AI data centres & how we can take action: actionnetwork.org/events/the-e... #ClimateJustice
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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📢 Webinar invitation: Powering AI through fossil fuels & Drax's tree burning? The environmental impacts of AI data centres & how we can challenge Drax's bid to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre: actionnetwork.org/events/the-e... 🔥

📅Thursday 25th Sept
⏰12.30-1.30pm BST
🌎All welcome!
Picture of Drax power station
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Please sign petition by Bruno Manser Fonds and support the indigenous Penan people against the destruction of a large area of rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia: www.savebaramforest.org/en/petition . Here's a video where you can find out more: www.savebaramforest.org/en/
Photo of a logging operation in a rainforest, with logging machinery and huts. Text: Save the Baram Forest from logging!
September 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Please sign up to the webinar about the Sustainable #Biomass Program (SBP), which is the world's biggest certification scheme for wood pellets. Drax, RWE and Lynemouth Power are amongst those relying on the SBP.

Please register ahead of time on Zoom: lnkd.in/gUyvqHrM
Graphic showing trees, some standing, others cut down. Text: Unpacking the Report: Sustainable Biomass Program Certifying the Unsustainable, Webinar Thursday 25th Setpember, 10 am EDT, 2pm UTC, 5pm CEST, Logos: Environmental Paper Network Biomass Action Group and Solutions for Our Climate
September 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Tomorrow, EU Commission President will address the European Parliament with her ‘State of the Union’ speech.
Today, civil society, trade unions, and public interest groups delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations.

Check it out: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...
Graphic of two hands holding a piggy bank with the EU's flag above soil cracked from drought. Text: Our protection is being sold for profit - 470 groups urge the EU not to weaken the rules that safeguard people and the environment.
September 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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UK Financial Conduct Authority opens investigation into Drax Group's accounts related to the company's wood sourcing : www.ft.com/content/368c...
Photo of Drax power station with nine cooling towers, the stack and the boiler house visible.
August 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Forest clearcutting ongoing in Croatia: The area shown was a mature oak and beech forest near the village of Poznanovec, owned by the county. Now fast-growing acacia is growing, so no chance of the forest regenerating. More similar clearcuts planned in the area. 😢
Photo showing a footpath with logging debris on the right and, on the left a slope with small acacia shrubs in the foreground, then a still visible clearcut area with more logging debris, and some remaining mixed deciduous forest in the background. Photo showing a footpath with logging debris on the right and, on the left a slope with small acacia shrubs in the foreground, then a still visible clearcut area with more logging debris, and some remaining mixed deciduous forest in the background. Photo of a slope showing a mix of young acacia shrubs and logging debris in the foreground and at the top some remaining mature deciduous trees.
August 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Join us on Thursday 28th at 4pm for a discussion of aviation biofuels in the UK, how government policy incentivises them, and the consequences for people and planet.
Speakers: Biofuelwatch, @rainforestrescue.bsky.social

#biofuels #aviation #saf #greenwashing #uk
August 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Ireland is increasingly relying on HVO for its home heating and electricity, with potentially disastrous results, as the case of the new Tarbert and Platin power stations demonstrates:

www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/hvo-ire...

#biofuels #hvo #ireland #powerstations #Tarbert #Platin
An image of the two chimneys at Tarbert power station in County Kerry, which is due to switch from heavy fuel oil to HVO in the near future.
August 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM