{"id":7086,"date":"2023-04-26T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T06:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comiteschonelucht.nl\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:02:59","slug":"vattenfail-civil-society-groups-in-sweden-germany-netherlands-and-brussels-call-out-vattenfalls-investments-in-wood-bioenergy-and-continued-fossil-fuels-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comiteschonelucht.nl\/en\/vattenfail-civil-society-groups-in-sweden-germany-netherlands-and-brussels-call-out-vattenfalls-investments-in-wood-bioenergy-and-continued-fossil-fuels-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"VattenFAIL: civil society groups in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Brussels call out Vattenfall’s investments in wood bioenergy and continued fossil fuels burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

26th April 2023 <\/strong>\u2013 Yesterday and today, coinciding with Vattenfall\u2019s AGM, banner protests against the company\u2019s investment in and expansion of wood bioenergy have been held at the site of a proposed new biomass plant in Diemen, Netherlands, outside Vattenfall\u2019s offices in Berlin and Brussels, and outside the company\u2019s AGM itself, in Solna, Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campaigners are calling on Vattenfall to immediately cancel its plans for new wood bioenergy capacity, to abandon its wood pellet and wood chips trading activities and to rapidly phase out all of its coal, gas, biomass and waste burning and replace it with non-emissive renewable energy and  investments in energy conservation. They also want Vattenfall to sell its heat network and plant in Berlin to the City at low cost, to bring heat production back under democratic control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, climate and forest campaigners around the world have been tweeting #Vattenfail images in support of these protests at Vattenfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Berlin<\/strong>, nine environmental organisations came together in front of the Vattenfall headquarter to protest the continued use of fossil fuels and Vattenfall\u2019s plans to increase wood burning by 500%. They also demanded that Vattenfall sell its assets back to the city at a reasonable price. Lisa Kadel from B\u00fcrgerBegehren Klimaschutz says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15,185 citizens agree with us in our petition: Vattenfall’s heating network must be sold back to the City of Berlin. This will allow us to tackle the urgent municipal planning processes through which we will achieve climate-neutral heating and finally leave coal, gas, oil and wood behind us.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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In Diemen<\/strong> the Clean Air Committee is holding a protest by the gates of the Vattenfall gas plant which feeds into Amsterdam\u2018s heat network. Fenna Swart from the Clean Air Committee says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vattenfall wants to build the largest dedicated biomass plant in the Netherlands on this site. We have been protesting against it for four years now.  We are challenging the nature permit for the plant in the Council of State. Nobody wants this biomass plant which will exacerbate the climate and biodiversity crises. We take Anna Borg, CEO of Vattenfall, at her word<\/a>; she stated that Vattenfall would not build a biomass plant that nobody wants. This is very much the case in the Netherlands. Not only are 98% of all Dutch citizens against biomass burning, but the Social and Economic Council advised the government to stop all biomass subsidies as soon as possible. The Dutch Climate minister acted accordingly and abolished new biomass subsidies for all new biomass projects last year. We now call him to stop the existing ones, too, which account for 85% of the total.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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