Biofuels Summer of Action
| When? | Summer 2008 |
| Where? | Various locations, including Altrincham Festival, Beech Road Festival and "Summer in the Park" at Platt Fields. |
| Why? | To raise awareness of the problems caused by large-scale biofuel production and persuade MEPs to vote against EU biofuel targets... |
We ran a series of the stalls during the summer of 2008 on the subject of biofuels. It has become clear that large-scale biofuel production leads to rainforest destruction, pushes up food prices by displacing food crops, and can in some cases lead to more greenhouse gas emissions than burning fossil fuels.
We roped in a friendly orang-utan to help us collect postcards from festival-goers in Altrincham, Chorlton and at Platt Fields, and got a really positive response, collecting over 1,000 postcards in the space of two weekends.
The next stage of the campaign will be present these cards, along with hundreds of others collected by our fellow groups in the North West, to our local MEPs in an effort to persuade them to vote against setting biofuels targets in the Autumn.
More information
Find out more
about the impact of biofuel production in Friends of the Earth Europe's
briefing
"Agrofuels:
Fuelling or Fooling Europe?" (PDF, 174 KB).
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Take Action!
Ask
your MP to vote against biofuels targets in the EU Biofuels
Directive this autumn, and instead vote for tougher standards for
emissions from new vehicles...