Urgent Action UK: Object to Vogen Energy's planned power station in Newport

This alert is for UK residents only. Please object to plans for a biofuel power station that the company Vogen Energy intends to build in Newport, South Wales. The power station would burn palm oil and possibly soybean oil.

People local to the planned power station please click here.

UK residents not local to the planned power station please click here.

Malaysian Palm oil Threatens Brazilian Amazon

Please take part in an Ecological Internet/Rainforest Rescue Alert.

Malaysia's Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) has entered into a joint venture with a Brazilian firm to establish 30,000-100,000 hectares (75,000 – 250,000 acres) of oil palm plantations in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Similar oil palm development continues to devastate Asia-Pacific's rainforests, and increasingly the world, with some thirty square miles of carbon and biodiversity rich habitat being cleared a day to provide cooking oil and transport biodiesel. Oil palm agrofuel is heralded as a climate change mitigation measure, yet the initial rainforest clearance leads to much more carbon release than its production and use avoids.