Latest News
- WPIF Director-General Letter to The Times
- Fri, Aug 5, 2011
- WPIF Director-General responds to call from Drax for higher subsidies for burning wood
- Rt Hon Anne McGuire MP explains wood panel industry`s concerns
- Thu, Jul 7, 2011
- Rt Hon Anne McGuire MP speaks to ePolitix about the threat to British wood panel manufacturing from biomass subsidies.
- Annual General Meeting of the Wood Panel Industry APPG
- Wed, Jun 29, 2011
- The Annual General Meeting of the Wood Panel Industry All-Party Parliamentary Group will take place on Tuesday 5th July.
- Renewable Energy Subsidies affecting viability of Furniture Manufacturing
- Wed, Jun 1, 2011
- As the impact of the Renewables Obligation (RO) continues to affect the price of wood, furniture manufacturers consider how to respond in the face of increases of up to 50% in the cost of this raw material.
- Radio 4 explores the implications of the RO
- Thu, May 12, 2011
- The Radio 4 programme 'You and Yours' explores the implications of the Renewables Obligation
- Support the Wood Panel Industry by urging your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1788
- Wed, May 11, 2011
- Support the Wood Panel Industry by writing to your MP, asking them to sign Early Day Motion 1788
- Why is the UK backing biomass power?
- Thu, May 5, 2011
- The Guardian Environmental blog asks critical questions about the viability of biomass energy
- Tilbury power station may become 650 MW biomass plant
- Wed, Apr 27, 2011
- RWE npower approves a plan to convert Tilbury into the world's largest biomass plant
- Neil Parish MP visits Norbord plant in South Molton
- Fri, Apr 15, 2011
- Neil Parish MP visited Norbord's plant in South Molton on 15 April
- Fighting back against flawed wood subsidies
- Mon, Apr 11, 2011
- Bob Livesey, joint Managing Director of Egger UK speaks out against Government subsidies
- Alex Salmond visits Norbord plant at Inverness
- Thu, Apr 7, 2011
- Alex Salmond visited the Norbord plant at Inverness ahead of the 2011 Scottish Elections
- Iain Gray visits the Norbord plant at Cowie
- Thu, Apr 7, 2011
- Iain Gray, the Labour leader in Scotland visited Norbord's plant at Cowie on 1st April
- Fergus Ewing visits Norbord plant at Inverness
- Thu, Apr 7, 2011
- Fergus Ewing visited Norbord's plant at Inverness on 31st March
- Friends of the Earth US wades into Forth Energy debate
- Wed, Apr 6, 2011
- Friends of the Earth US criticise Forth Energy's proposals for a biomass plant in Leith
- Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change agrees to meet with industry representatives
- Thu, Mar 17, 2011
- The Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change has welcomed the opportunity to meet with industry representatives at yesterday's Westminster Hall debate
- Conservatives add to objections against Leith biomass plant
- Thu, Mar 17, 2011
- A public inquiry regarding Leith's proposed biomass plant seems inevitable as more objections are rasied
- Shirley-Anne Sommerville MSP objects to Forth Energy Leith Biomass Plant
- Thu, Mar 17, 2011
- Shirley-Anne Sommerville MSP has added her voice to the growing number of objections to the proposed Forth Energy biomass plant at Leith
- MP raises concerns about wood sustainability
- Wed, Mar 16, 2011
- Anne McGuire, MP for Stirling raises concerns about wood sustainability ahead of Westminster Hall debate
- Westminster Hall Debate on the wood panel industry
- Tue, Mar 15, 2011
- An important Westminster Hall Debate on the wood panel industry is to be held on Wednesday 16th March
- Channel 4 News on the impact of biomass demand on timber prices
- Fri, Mar 11, 2011
- Channel 4 News reported this week on the government subsidies to encourage power companies to burn wood which are distorting the market for timber and forcing up prices in manufacturing and construction industries
- BBC coverage of sustainability concerns about biomass heating
- Thu, Mar 10, 2011
- Radio 4's Today Programme interviews its environment analyst Roger Harrabin on the launch of the renewable heat incentive (RHI)
- Scottish Zero Waste Consultation: Time to Make Wood a Priority Material
- Tue, Mar 1, 2011
- The WPIF has responded to the Scottish Government zero waste consultation and welcomes its proposals
- Implications for electricity consultation as experts raise doubts on biomass sustainability
- Wed, Feb 23, 2011
- Implications for electricity market reform consultation as experts raise doubts on biomass sustainability during ECC Select Committee Inquiry
- Publication of Electricity Market Reform Consultation
- Mon, Jan 24, 2011
- The Electricity Market Reform White Paper is to be published in late Spring 2011
- Wood Panel Industry Supports European Day of Action Against Unfair Subsidies
- Thu, Oct 28, 2010
- WPIF and member companies in the UK and Ireland are uniting across Europe in a day of action in protest against renewable energy subsidies
- Subsidies spark unintended resource shortage in EU
- Fri, Oct 22, 2010
- European Panel Federation Press Release - subsides spark unintended resource shortage in EU
- Large-scale biomass threatens 8,700 UK jobs... and risks a 1% increase in UK emissions
- Mon, Jun 28, 2010
- Research revealed today has identified that the spiralling development of large-scale wood fired energy plants in the UK UK jobs and risks an increase in UK carbon emissions
