ࡱ> >@=%` +bjbjNN $,,+$H H H H T t t t t t t t t PRRRRRR$hvt t vt t ft t PPt h Е$ H H"P0}j|}}Tt  F t t t vvt t t dd d  Press release, 20th April 2009  Ealing Friends of the Earth campaigns against disastrous biofuel plant proposal Ealing Friends of the Earth is leading a campaign to stop a biofuel generator being built in Southall. The proposal by the company Blue-NG is to build an electricity generator at the Southall gasworks site where a massive housing estate is planned. The generator will run by burning vegetable oil and is one of a series of 43 such generators in the UK proposed by Blue-NG. [Note 1] Claire James, biofuel campaigner for Ealing Friends of the Earth, said Biofuels such as vegetable oil are often suggested as a solution to climate change, because the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by burning is claimed to be offset by the CO2 taken up from the air when the crop grows. But in reality the net emissions can be even greater than those from burning fossil fuels. [Note 2] Growing crops to burn also means that land is taken away from food production, at a time when global food prices rising and food shortages are an increasing risk. Claire continued Growing biofuels takes up land that could be used to feed people. Blue NG say they will try to use oilseed rape grown in the UK, but there is no guarantee of this, and it would take up an estimated 6,700 hectares of land. If the oil is imported it could cause rainforest destruction, food shortages and human rights abuses. [Notes, 3,4,5,6] There are also local concerns. The plant will increase air pollution in an area which already suffers high levels of air pollution and is designated an Air Quality Management Area. Claire concluded. We can avoid all these local, national and global problems. Instead of building this highly questionable biofuel plant, the Southall gasworks scheme should incorporate extensive solar panels which are non-polluting and do not affect food supplies. And if we want to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and local air pollution, the Southall gasworks development should be made low car. We urge everyone to oppose this disastrous scheme. Contact: Claire James 07939 654914 Address for objections: planning@ealing.gov.uk or London Borough of Ealing Planning Dept, PO Box 1344, Ealing, London W5 2HL (planning application P/2009/0780). Notes 1. Blue NG has applied for planning permission to build a new electricity power station at the Southall Gas Pressure Reduction Station in The Straight, Southall, UB1 1QX. The power station will run 24 hours a day and will have a 65 metre (over 200ft) high exhaust chimney, alongside a new building 39 metres (126 ft) high. It will burn 20,000 tonnes of biofuel (vegetable oil) a year, requiring up to eight tanker deliveries per day. Blue NG has plans for 43 plants in total across the UK, which would burn nearly 900 million litres of raw vegetable oil per year. 2. Using waste cooking oil is clearly sensible but there is very little of this to go round. So crops need to be grown specially, such as oilseed rape. Because of the nitrogen fertilisers used in its production, the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is emitted. The exact figures are disputed, but a recent estimate suggested that burning oilseed rape may result in up to 70% more warming than the equivalent fossil fuels. (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/September/21090701.asp) 3. Blue-NG has said it will try to use oilseed rape grown in the UK, but there is no guarantee that it will do so and will not instead use palm oil from Indonesia from land cleared of forest and indigenous people. 4. The organisation Food not Fuel estimates that the oil seed rape needed to fuel the Southall plant would require 6,700 hectares (18,100 acres) of land which could feed 25,000 people. 5. 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