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

Photo of Drax power station with its cooling towers and smokestack.
Photo showing large logs from mature rainforest trees on a logging road surrounded by thinning rainforest canopy.
Graphic showing logging machinery with a large Euro sign at the top,cutting down trees and spewing out wood pellets. Speech bubbles for machine operators: "Are we sure we should be subsidising this" and "I know biomass causes massive air pollution, emits more CO2 than coal and destroys forests but remember, it helps with our 'renewables targets'. Keep pouring."
Image with three photographs: Top photo shows a data centre, bottom left shows Drax power station with its cooling towers, bottom right shows a photo of a forest clearcut in the Southeastern USA taken by Dogwood Alliance. Caption: Data centre companies: Don't Partner with Drax!
Photo of campaigners holding banners outside the Drax AGM. Visible banners: Drax the destroyer, Stop dirtydata centres, fuel poverty action, Missing: Have you seen Drax's Board? Last seen ripping off..."
Photo of a protest with a banner saying "Drax the destroyer" next to extinction rebellion flags.
Three people stand in front of a large green ship bow sculpture outside a modern building, holding a blue banner reading “NO TO BIOFUELS.”
Two photos showing large piles of roundwood in a winter landscape. Text: Logs from old growth forest sorted for delivery to Drax's Smithers pellet plant in BC, Canada. Photo: Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition
Photo of a forest clearcut with a logging road. Caption: Logging in the Special Ornithological Reserve Crna Mlaka, Photo: Vesna Grgić, Green Squad
Job Alert
A field of soya, with a graphic of an aeroplane in the background. Text in the foreground reads 'NGOS urge government not to pursued crop-derived SAF'
Photo of a sawmill that is part of an industrial estate.
Demonstrators outside the Drax power plant in Yorkshire oppose the burning of wood pellets in August 2024. (Reclaim the Power)
Photo of a mixed temperate forest with a stream running through it.
Homepage of website
Billboard placed in central Leeds bearing the text "I can't breathe" Drax Biomass Chokes Black Lives.
“Did you know that wood burning is the most polluting way to heat your home? This #CleanAirNight share the uncomfortable truth about wood burning.” Text is next to an illustration of a fire with smoke and pollution particles coming off of it. At the bottom are the logos for Clean Air Night, Global Action Plan and Impact on Urban Health, next to the reference “UK Government Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, 2025”.
Cover of report with 7 photos of work
Aerial photograph of Fram Fuel's Hazelhurst Pellet plant in Georgia, Photo: Dogwood Alliance
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.
Photo showing bur with catkin from an American chestnut tree
Photo of a rainforest in the mist. Caption: No more delays. Stop deforestation now.
Photo of a large oil refinery. Text: Martinez refinery in California converted to biofuels by Marathon and Neste
Photo with fire-coloured letters on black saying "Fires and Fascism"
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/
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.'
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!'
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
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.]
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.
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.
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.
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".
Picture of Drax power station
Photo of a logging operation in a rainforest, with logging machinery and huts. Text: Save the Baram Forest from logging!
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
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.
Photo of Drax power station with nine cooling towers, the stack and the boiler house visible.
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.
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.
Graphic showing five conifer trees next to a forest clearcut and a pile of logs. Text: Sustainable Biomass Program: Certifying the Unsustainable. Logos of Solutions for Our Climate, Global Environment Facility, Mighty Earth, Biofuelwatch, Environmental Paper Network Biomass Action Network
Photo of two wolves. Text: Graubünden: Finger weg von den Wolfswelpen (in English Graubünden - Hands off wolf cubs)
Photo of the Harutee forest, showing trees, undergrowth and two of the threes in the foreground gnawed by beavers.
Background - Drax power station's smoking chimneys, foreground white text on red background in a box reading "We've just signed the open letter to Peter Kyle and Feryal Clark at DSIT calling on the government to reject Drax Power Station's bid to burn even more trees to power Artificial Intelligence Data Centres - It doesn't take artificial intelligence to figure out that burning trees to power data centres isn't clean or green!"
A photo of charcoal next to a photo of industrial silos for storing for example CO2. Text: Dangerous and unscientific carbon offset methodologies for biochar and BECCS proposed by European Commission
Picture of a plastic can with a toxic warning symbol and the text "For export only" with an image of a plane underneath. Text next to the image: EU-banned pesticides still exported abroad, still showing up in imported food. Symbols of an airplane and of a shopping trolley next to the textg.
Picture of a plastic can with a toxic warning symbol and the text "For export only" with an image of a plane underneath. Text next to the image: If it's too toxic for EU citizens, it's too toxic for everyone
Text: #TheCOPWeNeed - No more empty promises Logo: fists in the air and loudspeakers
Photo of a large forest clearcut with remaining deciduous trees in the background. Text: Press release