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<CENTER><I>This petition was launched on our YouMove platform by the European
Federation for Transport and Environment. We think it may interest
you.</I></CENTER>
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<P><BIG>Hi,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>When you think 'renewables' you probably think of solar panels and wind
turbines. The truth is that in Europe almost <STRONG>60% of what we call
'renewables' is actually wood and crops</STRONG>. [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.</BIG></P>
<P><STRONG><BIG>We can change this. EU leaders are rethinking the law that
allows this to happen.</BIG></STRONG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>This law is a disaster for the environment. </STRONG>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
<STRONG>our old, dirty, coal plants are magically converted into 'clean energy’
plants. All this subsidised with our tax money.</STRONG></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Before they change this law, the European Commission wants to know what
people in Europe think. <STRONG>We have until tomorrow to tell them.</STRONG> If
we show that thousands of taxpayers do not want their money to subsidise burning
forests and food, <STRONG>the Commission will be more likely to change the
law</STRONG>. Sign and tell the European Commission: don't burn our forests and
food.</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>EU subsidies go to the producers of the “green fuels”. That’s why
<STRONG>perfectly healthy trees are cut, turned into pellets, transported to a
power plant and burned as “green” energy</STRONG>. 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]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>It’s the same with crops, in particular corn: it too, is cut and
burned</STRONG>. Because of the subsidies, vast fields of corn are popping up
everywhere in Europe, pushing out other crops and <STRONG>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.</STRONG> It
makes no sense and yet our tax money supports it.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>Our community has always cared for Europe’s forests and food
production.</STRONG> 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, <STRONG>we can do both at
once</STRONG>: save forests and crops from ruthless devastation.</BIG></P>
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rel=nofollow target=_blank><BIG>SIGN THE PETITION: STOP FAKE
RENEWABLES!</BIG></A></STRONG></BIG></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><BIG>With a genuine (not fake) green greeting,<BR>David (London), Marta
(Warsaw), Olga (Bologna) and the entire WeMove team</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>PS: <STRONG>The name of each person signing the petition will be
submitted</STRONG> directly to the European Commission <STRONG>in their official
consultation process</STRONG>. [7] The more names we have, the more powerful our
voice. <STRONG><A
href="https://www.wemove.eu/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=236054&qid=263091420"
rel=nofollow>Add your name!</A></STRONG></BIG></P>
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<P><SMALL>References:<BR>[1]
https:<SPAN>//ec.</SPAN>europa<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/jrc/en/publication/brochures-leaflets/brief-biomass-energy-european-union<BR>[2]
https:<SPAN>//www.nature</SPAN>.com/articles/d41586-020-01848-x<BR>[3] A recent
article:
https:<SPAN>//news.</SPAN>mongabay<SPAN>.com</SPAN>/2020/08/are-forests-the-new-coal-global-alarm-sounds-as-biomass-burning-surges/<BR>and
a more detailed report:
https:<SPAN>//ec.</SPAN>europa<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/biosustain_report_final.pdf<BR>[4]
https:<SPAN>//ec.</SPAN>europa<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/environment/archives/life/publications/lifepublications/lifefocus/documents/grassland.pdf<BR>[5]
Romania:
https:<SPAN>//you.</SPAN>wemove<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/campaigns/romania-save-europe-s-last-large-virgin-forests<BR>Bulgaria:
https:<SPAN>//act.</SPAN>wemove<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/campaigns/Save-the-Kresna-Gorge<BR>Poland:
https:<SPAN>//act.</SPAN>wemove<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/campaigns/defend-forest<BR>[6]
https:<SPAN>//act.</SPAN>wemove<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/campaigns/withdraw-cap<BR>[7]
https:<SPAN>//ec.</SPAN>europa<SPAN>.eu</SPAN>/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12553-EU-renewable-energy-rules-review/public-consultation
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 08, 2021 4:31 PM</DIV>
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