New Campaign Chops Down Growing Trend of Burning American Forests for Energy – Dogwood Alliance and NRDC Launch “Our Forests Aren’t Fuel” Campaign to End the Practice; Release Case Studies Highlighting the Major Energy Corporations Responsible
Today, Dogwood Alliance and our long-time partner, Natural Resources Defense Council, launched Our Forests Aren’t Fuel, a campaign to stop the large-scale burning of trees for electricity.
Demonstrators outside the annual general meeting of Drax Plc organized by Biofuelwatch are chanting “Drax Drax, what do you say? How many trees have you killed today?” and holding banners reading “Big Biomass: Fuelling Deforestation, Land-grabbing and Climate Disaster”, “Big Biomass is Greenwash not Renewable Energy” and “Drax the Destroyer!”
Dogwood Executive Director, Danna Smith, recounts her trip to Washington, DC for the Forward on Climate Rally.
In response to industry plans to develop eucalyptus plantations across the US South[1], environmental groups[2] are raising serious concerns about the impacts of eucalyptus plantations on forests, rural communities, wildlife and the climate.
