“Biodiesel made from used vegetable oil might be sustainable, but this is totally impossible on an industrial scale - there's nowhere near enough of it, and nowhere near enough land to produce agrofuels from new crops.

Companies who promote agrofuels on an industrial scale are formulating greenwash, plain and simple. Agrofuels contribute to deforestation and still emit greenhouse gases when burned - just because a source of energy is renewable, this doesn't mean it's green or sustainable. Companies in developing majority-world countries are producing biofuels instead of the food that their communities badly need, because they get more money out of it.”

“I quite agree with the commenter pointing out that not all biofuel is bad. Obviously, Biofuel recycled from used chip fat etc is fine - but that is a finite resource, which means that in order to use biofuels responsibly, we need to cut down on the amount we drive. The idea that we can continue with buisness as usual and still avert climate chaos is a myth - we need to drasically reduce the resources we use, not invent (arguably) marginally less nasty fuels to replace oil. I for one would still scale the roof of an oil company AS WELL as a bio fuel company. I think that in this green enlighenment we seem to be going through, a lot of people are trying to cash in with false solutions (carbon trading and biofuels, and to an extent, commercial recycling being the biggest three). Climate chaos will only be averted when we realise that it is not about creating means of sustaining our current lifestyles that will save us, but by learning to cut back a little. For example, I am not opposed to flyling per se. What I am opposed to is the culture in which a buisnessman can hop on a plan in Bristol for his meeting in Edinburgh or Paris in the morning, be back by dinner time, and repeat that several days a week. Only by putting a halt to the excesses of our consumer society, and by challenging buisness as usual 'solutions' to climate chaos can we start to takle the problem.”

“I think the eco -warriors are right - cars run much better on petrol than they do on mazola!”

“Mixed feelings with such a thing. A couple of years ago they used to climb on oil companies' roofs, now it's down to renewable companies. Honestly, everybody knows that biofuels as such are not a good thing, but bio in general is highly appreciable. If you use waste oil or unused crops instead of rapeseed, you can produce the same things without the problems of food-vs-fuel. And I'm fairly sure that this company was well aware of the fact. So I'm tending to blame the people who set up the demo for not being aware of the fact that there are other biofuels that don't cause deforestation. And by the way, to the one protester down there talking about recycling: I hope that s/he is aware that recycling does not save any energy at all, quite the opposite. Instead of all the recycling lorry fuel, the cleaning, transporting, melting and reusing of plastics that we currently call "recycling", you can produce new plastics with only a small a share of the energy. Sorry to disappoint you there, but the household recycling scheme is the biggest energy waste I've ever seen. There's just one reason it is there: to make people feel better about what they do, although they have no clue whether it's good. Otherwise all the people who drive to the recycling point in their car to bring back a stack of newspapers and three bottles of glass would know that they spent way more energy than they will ever be able to bring back...”

“Would you prefer it if they were considering a nuclear station?”

“A peaceful protest without any damage or violence (not even by the police), free publicity for the company and an interesting day for the workers. A good day for everyone.”

“Fair play to the protestors! As a teacher and an activist, I hate the whole 'get a job' thing - just the usual waffling from people too reactionary to get off thier backsides and do something positive. I think it is really important to highlight the huge damage that agrofueld do to the planet. The amount of land used to generate the crops needed, wether in the 3rd world or Europe would be put to much better use feeding the hungry of the world. Then there is the deforestation issues inextricably linked to agro fuels. But even if Blue NG don't engage in this practice, the fact remains that ALL agrofuels eat up land that could be used for food to satisfy our thirst for excessive automobile use. And frankly, how 'green' the manager is in a personal capacity is irrelevent when simple facts demonstrate that his company is environmentally unsound. And before anyone calls me a luddite, I love technology, I just think there are more sensible ways to generate it than fossil and agro-fuels.”

“The point of direct action is to peacefully raise awareness, in the media and the public. This action achieved both. There's little point in trying to engage with those who think a) protesters are unwashed (what is the point of that supposed criticism anyway?)and b) that protestors don't have jobs. Don't people like MommaCat know what holidays and time off are? Of course they do. It's just that they would never sacrifice their time off to do something worthwhile and obviously can't imagine that others would. Raising awareness and debate about our energy future is the most important thing anyone can do at the moment. Well done protestors!”

“no we didn't walk! i can't speak for the whole group but i personally try to limit my personal impact on the planet where i can- don't drive or fly. recycling etc- but we need political action as well as personal action. all of us recycling is like spitting on the ground in a drought tbh. I'm all for 21st century technology but there is good and bad tech- why aren't Blue NG doing wind turbines?

Yeah was a stupid time of day but the orangutan suit did get some good responses from the public and if we got there to early the office workers prob wouldn't have been there.

we arecalled action against agrofuels”

“As usuall the same unwashed tree huggers hating the 21st century.
I wonder how they got to their protest, becasue I am sure they didn't walk.”