Villagers in Senegal vow to stop land-grabbing biofuels project
By Agence France-Presse Villagers from northern Senegal vowed Thursday to fight a project by Senegalese and Italian investors to produce biofuels on their land, a venture already forced to relocate...
View ArticleMassive palm oil plantation in Cameroon endangering “biodiversity hotspot”,...
By Agence France-Presse A large palm oil plantation project in development in Cameroon since 2010 will put livelihoods and ecosystems in peril if allowed to continue, a US-based think-tank warned...
View ArticleNew study: Biofuel production benefits industrial capitalists, not planet
By Inderscience Publishers Biofuels will serve the interests of large industrial groups rather than helping to cut carbon emissions and ward off climate change, according to research to be published in...
View ArticleNew report shows “green” biofuels made from palm oil accelerating climate change
By Bangor University Growing oil palm to make ‘green’ biofuels in the tropics could be accelerating the effects of climate change, say scientists. Researchers from Bangor University found the creation...
View ArticleBiofuel company charged with bulldozing Asian elephant habitat
By Jeremy Hance / Mongabay A biofuel plantation near Yala National Park has landed Lanka Orex Leasing Company PLC (LOLC) in Sri Lanka’s highest court. Environmentalists say the company is illegally...
View ArticleCapitalists amping up destruction of Congo rainforests for palm oil plantations
By Jeremy Hance / Mongabay Industrial oil palm plantations are spreading from Malaysia and Indonesia to the Congo raising fears about deforestation and social conflict. A new report by The Rainforest...
View ArticleBREAKDOWN: The Efficiency of Green Energy
By Joshua Headley / Deep Green Resistance New York We ought not at least to delay dispersing a set of plausible fallacies about the economy of fuel, and the discovery of substitutes [for coal], which...
View ArticleCorporations in Indonesia grabbing and destroying indigenous forest land
By John Vidal / The Observer Land conflicts between farmers and plantation owners, mining companies and developers have raged across Indonesia as local and multinational companies have been encouraged...
View ArticleConverting trees to wood pellets latest “green energy” gold rush
By Jamie Doward / The Observer Britain’s new generation of biomass power stations will have to source millions of tonnes of wood from thousands of miles away if they are to operate near to their full...
View ArticlePalm oil company and Indonesian government raid indigenous villages, destroy...
By Diana Parker / Mongabay Nearly 150 homes were reportedly destroyed in the latest incident in a long-standing conflict between indigenous Batin Sembilan residents and former Wilmar unit PT Asiatic...
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