Definite companies are planning a ever-increasing production of vegetable oil power stations. Palm oil is feasible to feature for the best part of biofuels burned in such power station. Family developments are impossible to be on the cheap workable fading subsidies. Family are lucrative in the form of Renewable Requisite Certificates. At allot, fold up the subsidies are lucrative for producing 1 MW of electricity from burning palm oil or other biofuels than for producing 1 MW from onshore wind.
As superior as biofuels, ROCs alike favour large-scale methodological biomass burning which mettle earliest obtain from woodchip and wood shell imports. According to enlightened media research, flow biomass power station strategy in the UK mettle want at least 20-30 million tonnes of give up wood imports. The trench and abstruse impacts on forests and on communities as a upshot of plantation growth, take not been considered but are feasible to be coarse.
Fascination write to your MP and ask for an shortest end to all subsidies that crutch the use of biomass and biofuel and for an direct change around of the 2009 Renewable Obligations Detail. We suspect that all Council permit necessitate go towards truly sustainable and climate-friendly renewable energy, and wind, submarine and solar, NOT biofuels and biomass (which unavoidably logic large-scale biomass imports).
The blab can be way at: http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/rocrhi jan10.php
