Biofuel company W4B Renewable Energy has applied for permission to build the largest of all proposed UK biofuel power stations in Bristol. They want to burn 90,000 tonnes of vegetable oil, most likely palm oil, every year. Over 22,000 hectares of oil palm plantations would be needed just to supply this one power station – more if any other feedstock was used. Three other biofuel power station applications have recently been refused by local authorities, including one in Portland by the same company, W4B.
This new demand for palm oil would, directly or indirectly, cause more rainforest and peatland destruction and thus more climate change, and more indigenous peoples, small farmers and other communities being displaced from their land.
Please go to
www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/w4bsep2009.php
to object online to the planning application. Please note that this email action is for people who live in the UK. If you do not live in the UK then please don’t take part.
If you live in or near Bristol and can help in any way with campaigning against this proposal, please contact info@biofuelwatch.org.uk
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