*[Enwl-eng] Don’t burn food, don’t burn wood!

[ENWL]

This petition was launched on our YouMove platform by the European 
Federation for Transport and Environment. We think it may interest you.


Hi,

When you think 'renewables' you probably think of solar panels and wind 
turbines. The truth is that in Europe almost 60% of what we call 
'renewables' is actually wood and crops. [1] Yes! European dirty coal power 
plants now burn trees and crops on a mass scale. The EU calls it green 
energy and subsidises it.

We can change this. EU leaders are rethinking the law that allows this to 
happen.

This law is a disaster for the environment. To get the subsidies, enormous 
businesses which clear our remaining forests and plough the little that 
remains of our meadows and grasslands are popping up. And our old, dirty, 
coal plants are magically converted into 'clean energy’ plants. All this 
subsidised with our tax money.

Before they change this law, the European Commission wants to know what 
people in Europe think. We have until tomorrow to tell them. If we show that 
thousands of taxpayers do not want their money to subsidise burning forests 
and food, the Commission will be more likely to change the law. Sign and 
tell the European Commission: don't burn our forests and food.

            SIGN THE PETITION


EU subsidies go to the producers of the “green fuels”. That’s why perfectly 
healthy trees are cut, turned into pellets, transported to a power plant and 
burned as “green” energy. The area of the forests in Europe, where trees are 
cut for industrial purposes, increased by 0,37 million hectares in the last 
decade. [2] Not to mention all the wood imported to the EU from all corners 
of the world which causes deforestation there. [3]

It’s the same with crops, in particular corn: it too, is cut and burned. 
Because of the subsidies, vast fields of corn are popping up everywhere in 
Europe, pushing out other crops and destroying our last meadows and 
grasslands with their unique diversity of plants and flowers, insects and 
small animals. [4] And the prices of land skyrocket. It makes no sense and 
yet our tax money supports it.

Our community has always cared for Europe’s forests and food production. 
>From defending forests in Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania [5], to wanting to 
revolutionise the EU’s agriculture [6], we have mobilised endless times to 
protect our environment. This time, we can do both at once: save forests and 
crops from ruthless devastation.

            SIGN THE PETITION: STOP FAKE RENEWABLES!


With a genuine (not fake) green greeting,
David (London), Marta (Warsaw), Olga (Bologna) and the entire WeMove team

PS: The name of each person signing the petition will be submitted directly 
to the European Commission in their official consultation process. [7] The 
more names we have, the more powerful our voice. Add your name!



References:
[1] 
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/brochures-leaflets/brief-biomass-energy-european-union
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01848-x
[3] A recent article: 
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/are-forests-the-new-coal-global-alarm-sounds-as-biomass-burning-surges/
and a more detailed report: 
https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/biosustain_report_final.pdf
[4] 
https://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/life/publications/lifepublications/lifefocus/documents/grassland.pdf
[5] Romania: 
https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/romania-save-europe-s-last-large-virgin-forests
Bulgaria: https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/Save-the-Kresna-Gorge
Poland: https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/defend-forest
[6] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/withdraw-cap
[7] 
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12553-EU-renewable-energy-rules-review/public-consultation



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From: David - WeMove Europe
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2021 4:31 PM
Subject: Don’t burn food, don’t burn wood!
 
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