..A must read for for every US voter and concerned citizen.. challenges the reader to explore new possibilities and new mindsets that will ultimately be required if the world is truly ready to make a change.. amazon.com US onlyAt DECC (Dept of Energy and Climate Change), 3 Whitehall Place, London
Photo-op at 12.30 =96 1.30 pm
Called by Campaign against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch and Food not Fuel
This was a lively demonstration with a great atmosphere! Good speeches from=
Kenneth Richter from Friends of the Earth, Rupert Read from the Green Part=
y, Maryla Hart from `Food not Fuel', Phil Thornhill from the `Campaign agai=
nst Climate Change', Amancay Colque from Coordinadora Latinoamericana. and =
also John Stewart from HACAN who chipped in with a few words about agrofuel=
s as the 'long game' of the aviation industry. Also great music from, Pete,=
Mark et al!
Half way through there was a great moment when the Latin American contingen=
t arrived on the last stop of their long day of actions in solidarity with =
indigenous people on this 'Day of Protecting Mother Earth'.
Photos from the evening are here. Earlier in the day there was a photo-op a=
t the same place, the photos from the shoot are here. Videos will be up soo=
n!
So what was the demo about ? Well........
The government is using renewable energy subsidies (Renewable Obligations C=
ertificates =96 or ROCs) to fund power stations that use agrofuels.
While the UK's only significant wind turbine factory has just been closed u=
p to twice as much subsidy is going to producing power from agrofuels than =
from onshore wind.
Agrofuels - biofuels procuced using intensive agriculture - are a a major d=
river of deforestation, in turn, a major cause of climate change. Agrofuels=
from palm oil in particular are accelerating the burning of Indonesian for=
ests and underlying peat bogs with truly astronomical emissions as a result=
.
In Italy and Germany there are already large numbers of agrofuel power plan=
ts and almost all of them use palm oil because it is by far the cheapest fe=
edstock. It is pretty certain that agrofuel power plants in the UK will fol=
low the same economic logic.
Burning palm oil is probably the most environmentally damaging and climate =
negative way to produce power and yet this seems to be what the government =
wants to subsidise!
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Maryla | 21.10.2009 16:10https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/440287.html
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Biofuels are a wide range of fuels which are in some way derived from biomass.
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