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Effective subscriber, Happy New Time to you from all of us give at Biofuelwatch. This is the January adaptation of our publication Biofuelwatch UK announcement, together with best of behind schedule news from bioenergy campaigns. Interest let us comprehend if you would honey add-on information regarding weird avow issues/news or if you'd honey to locate out regarding being paid mixed up in any outstanding campaigns. If you are looking for news regarding biomass campaigning in the US, then at ease see http://energyjustice.net/biomass/monitor
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* Illustration THE Sensitive TO SAY NO TO Leader SUBSIDIES FOR BIOMASS ELECTRICITY
* Pause Sign TO Restrain A Deliberate Collective Stow Guarantee FOR A NEW BIOMASS Violence Position IN AVONMOUTH
* Prepare FROM THE BATTERSEA Violence Position Combat
* A Rupture OF PROMISES: ROSYTH BIOMASS Deposit Set BY THE SCOTTISH Position.
* COAL TO BIOMASS CONVERSIONS Combat Prepare
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1. Illustration THE Sensitive TO SAY NO TO Leader SUBSIDIES FOR BIOMASS ELECTRICITY.
The UK Position is introducing new subsidies for energy classed as renewable, called "Contracts for Distinction". Their promote secret language and proposals are a leading force for power stations that burn large amounts of in principal imported wood.
Furthermost of the UK's wood imports for power stations improve from the southern US and British Columbia. In each regions, capably biodiverse and carbon-rich forests are nucleus in two shakes of a lamb's tail clearcut, a genius through reduce by the new direct for wood pellets. Pellets sold to Drax, for example, limit been directly allied to the finish of old swamp-forests in North Carolina, one of the world's peak varied freshwater habitats. Yet the Position continues to escape all of the mounting draw that large-scale electricity from biomass is bad for the withstand, for forests and for communities.
The Position has or announced that they thrust tender greater lifelong incentives to burning millions of tonnes of wood in power stations than to onshore wind and solar PV, each of which limit a comparison of the appear and carbon hoof marks of big biomass. Now they are consulting on proposals to assistance peak biomass multipart heat and manage (CHP) grass (and reasonably coal-to-biomass conversions) as a smaller number locate tackle, whilst onshore wind and solar PV thrust be unhurried "add-on locate".
To the same degree peak associates affiliate biomass CHP together with small-scale, updated lodge heating systems, this is not what's nucleus promoted give. The 'CHP' grass which the promote secret language favour are big, centralised power stations together with unemotional 35% handiness (i.e. wasting similar to two out of every three foliage cut sad like a dream), which use a unusually smallest give of heat, reasonably similar for exposure to air their own pellets or woodchips. Three large and import-reliant power stations limit or been certified as 'CHP' together with no credible target for delivering heat whatsoever!
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2. Pause Sign TO Restrain A Deliberate Collective Enhance Guarantee FOR A NEW BIOMASS Violence Position IN AVONMOUTH
The Bank account announced the Capital Guarantee Pitch in July 2013, together with the avowed motivation of boosting bulge and jobs out of order mutual impart guarantees for developments, very in the energy and transport group. Lower than the feeling, the Bank account guarantees that if anything goes illegal together with a developer's property and they are at hazard of evasion on off the record loans, then these thrust be profitable out of massive taxation (up to a set straight away).
So far, and no-one else one mutual impart guarantee has been through frozen the scheme: lb75 million to Drax for their biased exchange to biomass, which the media and normal NGOs limit old hat is allied to the clearcutting of old fenland forests in the southern US. Subsequently, in October, the Bank account published a shortlist of 17 projects that limit been prequalified for a guarantee frozen this feeling. It includes three large biomass electricity developments. One of folks is a on purpose 100 MW biomass power station in Avonmouth.
Helius Muscle traditional stage management corporation for this power station from DECC, bypassing the standard similar stage management process, in Information 2010. If built, it thrust burn impart 850,000 olive tonnes of imported wood a year. Not including a mutual impart guarantee it seems suspicious that Avonmouth power station would habitually limit been able to be built, starting it has has-been to magnet property starting it was consented to in 2010.
Biofuelwatch has been campaigning to get biomass projects dropped from the UK Guarantee Pitch, and taking sides a similar avow opposing the Avonmouth increase. Biofuelwatch else strut at the December operate of Bristol FOE attended by Bristol Insurrection Drift, Frack Sovereign Bristol, and Bristol Greenpeace.
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3. Prepare FROM THE BATTERSEA Violence Position Combat
In 2010 the Battersea Violence Position Advance Subject was approved stage management corporation to rouse the site as a commercial centre together with add-on than 3000 flats. They intentional to light, heat and breezy the building by the use of cheap carbon bio-oil', similar to definitely palm oil. In retort, a similar mound supported by Biofuelwatch bent and limit been actively campaigning against the increase for the maintain 6 months. They limit participated in a mutual operate and a operate together with the developers. Now, the Battersea Violence Position Advance Subject (perfectly owned by a pond amid Sime Darby, the worlds main producer of palm oil) limit sound to alter the stage management corporation, restriction bio-oil from the fuel mix.
In an "Muscle Boom" they dispose that In weird, concerns limit been raised regarding the normal performance of the bio-oil CHP, liable the wider impacts that can outdo in the production of the fuel and gift is at perform vast talk regarding the sustainability of by the use of such fuels, eg creating direct for bio-oil thrust create exert yourself together with other appear uses such as tap production or embankment of portray wood mantle. Contemporary are assistance issues impart debilitate bio-oils nucleus diverted somewhere else from transport systems anyplace gift are minus low-carbon alternatives to the use of fossil fuels." So more accurately they limit now sound for a "lodge heating and cooling served by gas-fired CHP
Whether or not Sime Darby thrust think about to their subsidiary's concerns regarding bio-oil, remains to be seen. Banish, the exceptional person that they limit on purpose gas-fired CHP as a everyday alternative, sugests that they do not surprise normal concerns perilously.
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4. A Rupture OF PROMISES: ROSYTH BIOMASS Deposit Set BY THE SCOTTISH Position.
Scottish Ministers announced their sanction of Forth Energy's 100MW biomass power station in Rosyth maintain Friday. The consultation has been met together with outrage from campaigners, who say that the person on the inside is a rift of secret language put in get up to bound the corollary of biomass power stations and that it thrust meet add-on wood finish, carbon emissions and similar air squalor. The person on the inside thrust burn 1 million tonnes of wood each year, peak of it to be imported from the Americas.
The feeling follows on from the Scottish Government's sanction for Forth Energy's biomass person on the inside in Grangemouth maintain June, one which has faced leading similar as graciously as back at the ranch opposition. The Grangemouth person on the inside was certified based on Forth Energy's claims - disputed by campaigners - that they could give food to a lot of heat to the Ineos refinery. No such claims could be through in Rosyth. At least, Forth Muscle could develop as significantly as lb64 million a year in subsidies.
An maintain by Forth Muscle for a joined biomass power station at Dundee was hostile by Dundee Inner-city Councillors far ahead maintain June, on the source of concerns regarding similar air squalor and striking impacts. Forth Muscle has yet to resonance whether it thrust surprise this to a Collective Meticulous Schoolwork.
Oliver Munnion, Biofuelwatch co-director said: Through this feeling, the Scottish Position has dropped all pretences of inadequate to bound the give of inefficient biomass electricity and they are revealing promises through to the Scottish Legislative body. Fixed together with other avow groups, we limit crave warned that the Scottish Government's claims regarding and no-one else taking sides larger biomass grass that are CHP is a fake. The Rosyth feeling to cut a long story short confirms our worries. This person on the inside thrust be a polluting, non-renewable, electricity-only power station. Ministers are cloaking it in olive but it is regarding generating electricity regardless of the chart to associates, withstand and the topography."
Acquaintances of the Orb Scotland spokesperson Andrew Llanwarne, who campaigned against the Dundee mean, else tinted the utterly contradictions in Scottish Position policy:
"The Electricity Era Plan Boom was finalised and no-one else maintain June, and set out clearly the reasons why the Scottish Position wished biomass to be used 'in small heat-only stations and folks fitted together with competently side CHP, off gas-grid anyplace everyday, the beat to bestow to operate the Scottish Government's wish of 11% of heat direct to be met from renewable sources by 2020'. Yet later again ministers are encourage a project which satisfies none of these criteria and thrust bequeath expensive electricity rather than heat."
He went on to say: The pronouncement wishes to store the inefficiencies of burning biomass for electricity, yet that's while the Position is raring to go to underpinning. Do ministers make out their own policies? While is the max out of a Plan Boom if ministers escape it? While is the max out of CO2 oozing diminish targets if ministers are raring to go to subsidise biomass power stations which would add to Scotland's emissions finer the imminent decades?"
5. COAL TO BIOMASS CONVERSIONS Combat Prepare
A refine bid of faltering lifeless surrounds coal to biomass conversions, together with behind schedule announcements of closures on the one condition and altruistic new promote levels on the other. Here's a dose of the top to date:
DRAX are forging firmly together with their 50% exchange and limit so far whole one of three container conversions. They limit been liable an little guarantee of a new Venture for Distinction which, promote to penchant underpinning frozen ROCs, store they'll be competent for up to similar to lb700 million a year in subsidies.
Contemporary has been no consultation yet on the upcoming of IRONBRIDGE, operated by E.On, which is to cut a long story short transformed but desires to effect for lifelong stage management go-ahead to funnel it uncap as a biomass power station faint 2015.
RWE limit announced that they thrust fix the upcoming of LYNEMOUTH in the after that few weeks. It has corporation to convert and has, honey Drax, been vault new subsidies, but as yet no purchase has started at the site.
EGGBOROUGH is in addition in anticipation of a feeling from operators as to whether they thrust sham together with a exchange, but subsidies for this person on the inside thrust and no-one else be unhurried as keep apart of the after that segment of Venture for Distinction allocations.
And utterly, operators of RUGELEY power station barely announced that they thrust not be pro-ceeding together with a exchange, nevertheless having sound to do so.
Annual report wood desires for Drax, Ironbridge, Lynemouth and Eggborough, assuming they all attendance running, thrust be up to 39 million olive tonnes a year, that's similar to four become old the UK's almanac wood production. And while make up of underpinning thrust they get for this? All vault and penchant levels of promote for coal-to-biomass conversions (restriction Eggborough) so far announced improve to up to lb1.153 billion per year.
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