Burned: Cardiff Virtual Film Screening and Q&A
Tue, Jan 26
|Virtual Screening and Q&A
We're having a film night Popcorn Join us next Tues 26th Jan 7-8.30pm for a a screening of Burned and Q&A with Biofuelwatch to learn more about why continuing with plans for a wood-burning biomass plant in Cardiff is such a bad idea.
Time & Location
Jan 26, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Virtual Screening and Q&A
About the event
Friends of the Earth Cardiff, alongside local residents, are currently raising objections to the extension of planning permission granted for a wood-burning biomass plant on Rover Way, Cardiff. This planning permission sits alongside an existing waste incinerator and proposals for another just a stones throw away.
Ahead of the planning committee meeting which will decide the fate of the permission in the face of a climate and ecological emergency, we are inviting you to join us for a 45 minute film screening and Q&A with Biofuelwatch to learn more about the impact of burning wood for energy and how it currently represents a false net zero solution in UK public policy.
BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal? tells the little-known story of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and blatant green washing of the burgeoning biomass power industry. The film follows…