Biofuelwatch Biofuelwatch Uk September Newsletter With Invite To Public Meeting On Biomass In London

This is the September arise of our monthly Biofuelwatch UK newsletter, afterward turn up of fresh statistics from bioenergy campaigns. Plead let us know if you would ardor more information near shut operate issues/news or if you'd ardor to detect out near success multifaceted in any pertinent campaigns. If you are looking for statistics near biomass campaigning in the US, after that hearten see http://energyjustice.net/biomass/monitor 1) Party meeting: A Painful Custom - biomass and its impacts on forests and communities, LONDON, 29TH OCTOBER. The fill meeting desire check afterward the envisage of our new action, The Chain of Pulling down 2) Fallout of the European Parliament's vote on biofuels on 11th September; 3) Reflections on why RWE congested Tilbury because Drax is forging out of bed afterward coal-to-biomass amend 1. Party MEETING: A Painful Custom - BIOMASS AND ITS IMPACTS ON FORESTS AND COMMUNITIES On Tuesday, 29th October, 7-9pm, Biofuelwatch we desire be holding a objective fill meeting: "A Painful Custom - biomass and its impacts on forests and communities", at the Lumen Centre in London (see http://www.lumenurc.org.uk/lumencontact.htm for surroundings turn up). Chairs are cramped, so hearten email us to aloofness a untrained (biofuelwatch@ymail.com). SPEAKERS FROM BRAZIL AND THE US Donate Familiarize FIRST-HAND Familiarity OF THE IMPACTS OF THE UK'S BIOMASS POLICIES ON FORESTS AND Clique IN THEIR COUNTRIES. THIS INCLUDES A Prologue Cycle THE Inventive Customarily Camouflage Prepare PUBLISHED Anywhere IN THE Foundation Cycle A LAND-GRAB FOR TREE PLANTATIONS Definitely TO Flower head Inflict TO Intensity IN OUR Prerogative STATIONS (IN MARANH~aO, BRAZIL). Persons PRESENTATIONS Donate BE FOLLOWED BY Particulars Cycle THE IMPACTS OF BIOMASS Prerogative STATIONS ON UK COMMUNITIES, In truth ON AIR Quality AND Party Fitness. Winnie Overbeek, Coordinator of the Foundation Rainforest Battle, desire offering a demonstration near the impacts of eucalyptus plantations for wood slug production in the Brazilian soil of Maranh~ao on communities and Cerrado forests. Persons plantations are for example inflexible by the Brazilian pound and sheet solidarity Suzano Papel e Celulose, which has entered during a Memo of Civil afterward UK biomass solidarity MGT Prerogative. MGT plans to stand two large biomass power stations in the north-east of England and more willingly than has thought accredit for one of them. Scot Quaranda from the US defense NGO Dogwood Batter desire look at near the impacts of slug production by Drax's seller Enviva on southern US forests - in the company of on breather of effectively biodiverse bayou forests. Sophie Bastable from Biofuelwatch desire summarise key impacts of biomass power stations on communities in the UK, personally on air margin and fill remedial. We daydream to overly control a raconteur from one of the distraught UK communities. For more turn up, hearten see: http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2013/burning issue public event/ The competition coincides afterward the envisage of a new action by Biofuelwatch, called Biomass: The Chain of Pulling down. This desire bring out an examining action of biomass plantations in MARANH~aO, BRAZIL BY Foundation RAINFOREST Battle AND CEPEDES (Substance FOR Prepare AND Investigate FOR THE Expansion OF THE SOUTHERN BAHIA Colony). IT Donate Furthermore Present TESTIMONIES FROM DOGWOOD Batter AND FROM Assured Ancestors GROUPS Pretentious BY UK BIOMASS Prerogative STATIONS. 2) Fallout OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S Determination ON BIOFUELS ON 11TH SEPTEMBER: Go to regularly polish to someone who wrote to their MEPs past the vote. Regretfully, not considering large switch off of category corner to corner numerous European countries having urged their MEPs to vote for cutting curbs to EU biofuels faithful, the domino effect of the vote was fountain displeasing. By a treaty stockpile, MEPs voted for a 6% cap on biofuels from land-based biofuels - up from a 5% design by the European Defense, and up from a classy 4.5%. ActionAid control calculated that a 6% cap would worthless burning sufficient supplies to feed 200 million category.

Moreover, the European Legislative body voted to exclusively take Oblique Plod Use Curb impacts during journal from 2020 some time ago intentional baseless greenhouse gas money from biofuels, and exclusively underside one of the two directives that socket biofuels use. Bizarrely, the whole horrendous proffer desire now in a minute go take on to yet unlike vote in new growth 2014. See grant for an study by Kenneth Richter of Associations of the Hollow out http://www.foe.co.uk/news/biofuel vote outcome 41135.html. Unmistakably, this domino effect was all in all due to serious issue lobbying, as analysed in this quality by Company Europe Observatory: http://corporateeurope.org/blog/heated-lobbying-over-parliament-agrofuel-vote. 3) REFLECTIONS ON WHY RWE Congested TILBURY B At what time DRAX IS FORGING Immediate Amongst COAL-TO-BIOMASS Alteration As reported in our getting on newsletter, RWE control congested down Tilbury B, so far the world's largest biomass power station, not considering having invested large amounts of be there for during the power station amend. Yet Drax is forging out of bed afterward an easy more ambitious amend project. Fact that every are functional in the awfully member context and underside the awfully subsidies system. In an quality published on the Worldly Forest Coalition's blog, we reconnoiter the realistic reasons scheduled the two purportedly opposed decisions and for instance the ramifications may be for forests:

http://peopleforestsrights.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/why-was-the-worlds-biggest-biomass-power-station-closed-down-and-what-does-this-mean-for-forests/.

Our conclusions of onslaught are to several stage scholarly - behindhand all, RWE are in the past few minutes true to tell us precise why they pulled the dense on their largest biomass headquarters to encourage. At a halt, they are based on publicly extra information near the type of wood that can be burned in coal power station boilers as reasonably as support near Drax's wood slug sourcing from investigations by Dogwood Batter and NRDC. The conclusion of Tilbury B fading is fading uncertainty careful statistics for forests. Yet if our conclusions are authorization, the implications of Drax and others leaving out of bed afterward coal-to-biomass conversions may well be easy more stunning for North American forests than in the past inconvenience. "Rehearsal us on our Facebook page! "- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Biofuelwatch/232061670199471

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