Category: Biomass
Submission In Objection. The Caldera Environment Centre OBJECT in the strongest possible terms to Redbank power station being permitted to burn vegetation from land clearing and from native forest ecologies:
1. We object to the proposal on ecological grounds. Ecological systems are collapsing around the planet. We are living in the age of The Ecological Crisis, the collapse of the ecology, the collapse of the systems of interrelated and interdependent lifeforms on this planet. In that context we must rescue and protect ecologies, in this…
STOP CLEARING AND BURNING FORESTS FOR ELECTRICITY, Don’t allow Redbank
NEFA: Please object to the Restart of Redbank Power Station by burning 850,000 tonnes of native forests each year, obtained from landclearing. SUBMISSIONS NEEDED BY 5:00pm on Monday 18 August 2025. MAKE YOURS NOW. This month NSW’s Independent Planning Commission is deciding whether to approve a massive increase in landclearing in western NSW to burn…
Nature Conservation Council
Environmental Protection Agency .gov Prosecutes Publicly Owned Logging Authority for Environmental Non-Compliance – Again.
The Forest Alliance NSW has welcomed the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA’s) decision today to prosecute Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) for 29 charges. The charges related to illegally logging of critical Greater Glider habitat in Tallaganda State Forest on the NSW South Coast. The EPA alleges these actions contravened conditions of the Coastal Integrated…
NEFA: “Forestry Corporation retrospectively slash timber yields by 28%”
NEFA: “The Forestry Corporation has reduced yields from public native forests in NSW by 28%, though they are only doing so by dramatically reducing the volumes of products they previously claimed to have obtained in each of the past 3 years, according to the North East Forest Alliance. The Forestry Corporation is legally required to…
UPDATE: EDO / NEFA Legal Action to Stop Myrtle and Braemar State Forests Logging
EDO: “… a quick update on our case to stop logging operations in vital koala habitat in north-east NSW and share some positive news. On Wednesday 2 August, EDO lawyers went to the NSW Land and Environment Court, seeking an urgent injunction to stop logging in Myrtle and Braemar state forests. Our client, the North…
NEFA: Logging suspended in Myrtle and Braemar State Forests until court case
“The North East Forest Alliance has taken the NSW Forestry Corporation to court in an effort to save the homes of Koalas, and 23 other threatened species, including the Southern Greater Glider, Yellow-bellied Glider, Rufous Bettong, Masked Owl and Squirrel Glider. NEFA has engaged the Environmental Defenders Office to commence legal proceedings in the NSW…
Bob Brown Foundation: Nationwide Days of Action to Stop Native Forest Logging in Australia
BBF: “Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of an incredible opportunity to protect native forests nationally. Victoria is fast-tracking an end to native forest logging before 2024. We will use this momentum to build towards an end to native forest logging nationwide, and we need you with us. We have never been at…
End Native Forest Logging Now
The easiest way to reduce net emissions by 2030 is that we “reduce the conversion of forests and other ecosystems.” (IPCC)
NEFA LEAF May 2023
The Latest Edition of the North East Forest Alliance NEFA LEAF news update. The most informative publication of what’s going on with native forest protection in our area. NEFA: “It’s been a huge start to the year with communities rising up to protect what’s left of our precious native forests. Check out our events below…
Singleton Redbank Native Forest Biomass power station news
Hello [from AFCA]. Just letting you know that [we] spoke to Singleton Council yesterday re Verdant and Redbank. The Council did not know about the removal of NF biomass as an eligible source of renewable energy from the RE Act regs so I sent them the attached announcement from Bowen. Verdant has not submitted a new…
NEFA News: Federal Gov’t Falls at First Forest Hurdle
Report by SEAN O’SHANNESSY: North coast conservationists are dismayed, that the Albanese Federal Government have failed to seize the opportunity to exclude wood from native forests being used as a substitute for coal and classed as ‘renewable energy’. A Senate Committee report released this afternoon that investigated potential amendments to the Climate Change legislation, has…
Dismay over Government’s rejection of inquiry recommendation to stop burning native forests for electricity.
From The North East Forest Aliance (NEFA) and The North Coast Environment Council (NCEC): Conservation groups are dismayed by the NSW Government’s rejection of the recommendations of the parliamentary inquiry ‘to prevent the burning of wood from native forests to generate energy’ and exclude its being classed as renewable energy. Contrary to the Government’s claims…
Please Help: NSW.gov ePetition – End Public Native Forest Logging in NSW
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – Signing ePetition – End Public Native Forest Logging End Public Native Forest Logging in NSW. To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly. Public native forest logging is pushing iconic species like the koala, swift parrot and greater glider towards extinction. The 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires burnt over 5…
Native Forests ARE NOT ‘Biofuel’ replacement for coal.
Here and now, at The Time of The Collapse Of The Ecology, they are doubling down on stupid. They are industrially feeding our native forests into furnaces, as a replacement for coal, to make electricity. They have changed the laws to take away the tree protections. They have made laws which say that burning forests…
Stop the ‘Native Forest Biomass’ Industry – Rescue Australian Native Forests
1) Australian Native Forests Are To Replace Coal As Furnace Fuel For Electricity. Australian Native Forests are to be industrially fed into electricity power station furnaces overseas – to replace coal – to boil water to turn turbines to make electricity to be used momentarily then it is gone. ‘Somehow’, The European Union have legally…
Link: Biomass Action Group – BAG
Link: Stand Up For Cherry Tree Forest
Link: Fridays For Forests
Update: Redbank Power Station (burning native forests for electricity instead of coal – or not)
Redbank power station have submitted to Singleton Council a modification application to their original coal based Development Application, a modification which will allow them to burn native forest ‘biofuel’ instead of coal. The reasoning for the original 1993 development consent for the Redbank power station was that the power station burn local coal mine waste…
New David Bradbury Biomass Film – Please Watch and Share
Whole trees woodchipped and fed into giant furnaces to generate electricity and getting taxpayer subsidies to destroy forests as several people say in this clip, has to be one of the most ‘insane’ ideas currently happening on the Planet. We have to end this scam pronto – David. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=905957046686591
Why Native Forest Logging Must End
The Logging Loophole at the Heart of Glasgow COP21 Deforestation Declaration
The Glasgow declaration on forests and land use pledges to stop deforestation by 2030, but a logging loophole in the declaration actually allows clearcutting and other ecologically destructive forestry practices to continue unchecked. Why is industrial logging excluded from the Glasgow Declaration on Deforestation? Why don’t clear-felled forests count? Why isn’t converting forests into monoculture…
NEFA News Alert: Two women block entrance to Heron’s Creek Mill in the lead up to COP26
Update: The two women have been arrested and taken into custody after blocking access to the Heron’s Creek sawmill near Port Macquarie for 7 hours. They endured the blazing sun, each with an arm locked into a 44 gallon drum of concrete, bearing the words ‘Saving Forests is Climate Action’. The women, one a grandmother and…
[nefanews] Banner drops send Koala message around the world
NSW Forest Defenders have targeted proposed and operating biomass facilities in NSW dropping banners that read “Dead Koala Energy #BigBadBiomass “and “No Trees for Electricity! Stop the Biomassacre”. Along with other actions around the country, the actions are part of the International Day of Action against #BigBadBiomass, the practice of cutting trees to burn in power…
Biomass Action Group Gathering at Condong Biomass Burning Power Plant
Biomass Action Group: Biggest turnout yet at Condong biomass plant! Thanks to our supporters and speakers Mandy Nolan, Iaun Gaillard, Nola Firth, and #fridaysforforests’ Sean O’Shannessy. Sending the message loud and clear that we need our forests now more than ever to draw down carbon, so do not accept biomass is the false solution it’s…
Condong to burn 120,000 tonnes of ‘industrial waste’ timber from Brisbane
The Condong electricity power generator plant is to be reclassified as an “energy from waste” (EfW) facility. … The repurposed Condong Sugar Mill power plant is to burn: 1. Waste from Brisbane – 120,000 tonnes of ‘industrial waste timber with up to 10% plastic and 10% fabrics [also plastic?]’ ‘recovered timber fuel’ sourced from ‘construction,…
Time to end logging of public native forests
NEFA MEDIA RELEASE: Time to end logging of public native forests. NEFA is calling upon the NSW Government to follow the leads of Western Australia and Victoria by immediately adopting a plan to phase out logging of public native forests because of their vital roles in taking up and storing carbon and providing homes for…