
Friends of the Earth Brisbane extended our campaign reach this month by taking a clear message to Europe that agrofuels (biofuels) are not a solution to climate change and is driving the Queensland hairy nosed wombat to extinction. Friends of the Earth has been building its campaign position to combat the expansion of the industry, an industry that delivers E10 (ethanol and petroleum blend) to unsuspecting motorists that have been sold the lie that biofuels are clean and green.
Agrofuels brings together land-clearing, increased use of agrotoxins (chemical fertilisers, herbicide, pesticide, etc), and the merger of agriculture and energy production to form a destructive mix to further exacerbate global warming, species loss and toxification of our land and water supplies.
This month Derec Davies travelled to Brussels, the political centre of Europe to share recent research findings with 15 media agencies from the EU.