The United Kingdom is seeing unprecedented development of large scale biomass electricity generation. The current plans would require about 40 million tonnes of wood to be imported every year (about 5 times the annual production of the UK).
This web space and the map are tools to help residents of the UK get an overview of the scale and status of these developments as well as provide information about both local and global impacts of biomass electricty generation.
Resources such as factsheets, news articles and Campaign updates are available using the left hand side menu. If you would like to suggest material for this webspace please email us.
Biomess is a UK based campaign to stop the development of biomass power plants. This network is run by volunteers and its successes depend on everybody's involvement. If you think you could help in any ways, please get in touch.
This is the unspoken face of climate change. Logging concessions in Alaska, West Papua and the Congo are being offered to provide wood chip and pellets for Europe to burn as 'green energy'. Climate Camp activists targeted Forth Energy because of t...
Study found that, after 40 years, the net GHG emissions from biomass burned for electricity are still worse than coal, even when considering forest regrowth, and that biomass emissions are worse than natural gas even after 90 years.
Air pollution is causing the early deaths of up to 50,000 people a year and making thousands more ill - but the Government is failing to take enough action to tackle the problem, MPs said today. (United Kingdom)
The plant, which is being part-funded by an £18m grant from the national lottery, will initially burn forest residue: sawdust, branches and offcuts Mmmh....
The web page maps out the plans for a potential very large biomass infrastructure in the UK. Inside the map, by clicking on proposed plants or approved plants you can get detailed information about each site.
The map include existing, proposed, in planning and approved biomass power stations (over 30MW ) in the United Kingdom.
Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year eve.
What shall we call them—those “skeptical environmentalists” and “rational optimists” about global warming—superheroes of best-selling books who write and speak in open opposition to facts and science as easily as Superman and Spiderman defy gravit...
Politically and scientifically speaking, the most important fact to know about global warming is that the world must reduce carbon dioxide emissions very steeply and very quickly, despite the fact that this is probably the most complicated and com...
When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With Earth Day coming up, here's a striking example of one such transformation.
In his 2001 book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg argued that the real state of the world’s environment was better than what the major environmental organizations and scientists have reported. T...
Given his public diplomacy skills, if Bjorn Lomborg had worked for the Bush-Cheney White House, the world might still be thinking that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. This is because there has never been any evidence to supp...
Biofuelwatch factsheet. Industrial Bioenergy: More plantations and industrial logging to fuel power stations?
Short Report on biomass CO2 emission by Chris Matera (Massachussets Forest Watch)."Wood fueled biomass energy worse for carbon dioxide emissions than fossil fuels" March 2010
For more information please use the left hand tab menu: Resources.
Reports
Biomass Briefing, Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance, prepared by Mary Booth, October 2009
Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study [5MB] (June 2010 report by Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). The study found that, after 40 years, the net GHG emissions from biomass burned for electricity are still worse than coal, even when considering forest regrowth, and that biomass emissions are worse than natural gas even after 90 years. It also found that biomass, burned in small scale heating applications or in combined heat and power (CHP) industrial applications is worse than natural gas, but better than burning oil.
Please use the left hand side menu just above as this has good links to Resources and Campaigns. 
