STOP PRESS!! Today is the last day to addyour signature to stop palm oil subsidies for biofuels. Join us if you can in our submission to DECC
tomorrow, Friday 30th, 1:00pm.
In early 2013 the UK government
is set to guarantee generous subsidies to burn vegetable oil (mostly palm oil)
for hugely inefficient electricity power generation. This could potentially double the total UK palm oil
imports, posing a threat to rainforests, climate and forest-dependent
communities and indigenous peoples who face losing their
land and livelihoods to new oil palm plantations.
So far, biofuel company W4B
has planning permission to build two large palm oil power stations in Bristol and Portland
and another company, Edgeley Green Power, is seeking planning consent for a
power station in Shoreham-on-Sea, also listing palm oil as a potential
feedstock.
In Indonesia alone, the Government is planning to
see 20 million hectares – an area ten times the size of Wales,
converted to new oil palm plantations to meet rising global demand with
devastating impacts on endangered species such as the Orangutan.
Please join us in another
push to let the government know that subsidies for biofuels are a scam, nothing
more than a destructive give-away to industry masquerading as responsible
action on climate change.
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