Speakers:

Duncan Law from Battersea Against Biofuels
Helen Buckland from Orangutans SOS
Kenneth Richter from Friends of the Earth
Simon Birkett from Clean Air in London

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Battersea Against Biofuels campaigns against a large biofuels CHP plant that has been proposed as part of the Battersea Power Station development. The former owners of the site obtained outline planning permission for such a plant in 2010. Since then, the development has been taken over by a Malaysian consortium which includes Sime Darby, a company which owns more than half a million hectares of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Liberia. Sime Darby has been heavily criticised by communities and NGOs over deforestation and land-grabbing, most recently in Liberia.

For more background information and links, see:

 http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Battersea-background-briefing.pdf