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.
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)
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3 days in central Athens with Algerian refugees listening to their stories and experiences. A chronic context but the humanity of the refugees shines through.
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.
There has never been much chance that the ever-“realistic” corporation-conciliator Obama would pursue green policy in the oil- and dollar-soaked culture of Washington
With an increase of 2° C, the number of deaths per year attributed to climate change-related natural disasters, which was 350,000 in 2009,could skyrocket into the millions
Empire Incorporated. The turning and churning of the living into the dead will quite probably be the undoing of us all and will cause unquantifiable greater destruction to the natural world and all her nonhuman descendants (which is already occurr...
Putting aside morality, human and nonhuman, the corporate-capitalist-republican-democratic amalgamation, and the way of life it maintains through immense violence and abject domination has never been nor ever will be sustainable. It’s not a questi...
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. 
