Thursday 18 January 2018

Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth would like to invite you to the award-winning new documentary BURNED - Are Trees the New Coal? at 7pmon Thursday 25 Jan at Friends of the Earth head office, The Printworks, 139 Clapham Road, London, SW9 0HP (equidistant between Oval and Stockwell Tubes). #coal #keepitintheground #climate

Dear Biofuelwatch supporters,

Please circulate your networks and come if you can.
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h
​e
 government spent more than £800m of bill-payers' money
​ on subsidising electricity generation from wood​
 in 2015
 mak
​ing
 climate change worse
​ and often supporting continued coal burning​
.
​ The Clean Growth Strategy proposes significant increases in biomass imports for heavy industry and the coal phase-out allows spurious emissions reductions by co-firing.​

Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth would like to invite you to the award-winning new documentary BURNED - Are Trees the New Coal? at 7pmon Thursday 25 Jan at Friends of the Earth head office, The Printworks, 139 Clapham Road, London, SW9 0HP (equidistant between Oval and Stockwell Tubes).


It contains important scientific evidence about climate impacts of biomass, as well as footage of impacts on the forests in the southeastern US. The film is 44 minutes long and will be followed by Q&A
​ and discussion,​
 and a short presentation by Pete Deane who recently visited the Wilmington Wood Pellet Forum for Biofuelwatch.

Please sign-up for a free ticket here and let us know you are coming. Door
​s​
 will open from 6.30pm.

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