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News Release Biofuelwatch / ETC Group / Greenpeace

BIOMASS POWER GRAB HIGHLIGHTED AS BIOTECH INDUSTRY MEETS IN MONTREAL

Montreal- July 21 2009 -- As hundreds of delegates gathered for the Sixth Annual Conference on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing at Palais des congrès in Old Montreal, a group of NGOs held an early morning press conference across the street. Greenpeace, ETC Group and Biofuelwatch joined forces to warn that the “green” energy of the biotech industry was mostly hype, that governments should not add to their already generous subsidies of the industry and that the feedstock on which it is all based – so called “biomass” – is neither plentiful nor easily converted into renewable chemicals, plastics and fuels.

Jim Thomas, a researcher from ETC Group, charged that behind the thin, green veneer of clean energy and renewable plastics, Big Bio is, in fact, engaged in a huge industrial power grab:... Read more

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07/16/2009
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Communiqué et avis aux médias

 

Des ONG dénoncent l’écomarketing des entreprises biotechnologiques « Non aux prétendus remèdes miracles aux changements climatiques »

Montréal, le 16 juillet 2009. Plusieurs organisations environnementales, parmi lesquelles figurent Greenpeace, ETC Group et Biofuelwatch préviennent que le lobby biotechnologique s’apprête à se lancer dans un vaste exercice de relations publiques destiné à faire accepter certaines innovations comme étant des solutions écologiques. La 6e Conférence annuelle sur la biotechnologie industrielle aura lieu au Palais des congrès de Montréal du 19 au 22 juillet prochains.

Pendant la conférence, l’industrie biotechnologie va présenter diverses innovations comme s’il s’agissait de véritables solutions aux... Read more

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Press Release and Media Advisory

 

NGOs Denounce Corporate Greenwashing: ‘No to Dubious Biotech-fixes for Climate Change’

Montreal, 16 July 2009. Several groups including Greenpeace, ETC Group and Biofuelwatch are warning that the biotech lobby will mount a major green-washing public relations exercise during the Sixth Annual Conference on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing that will be held at the Palais de congrès (19-22 July 2009).

During the Conference, the biotech industry will present various untested biotechnology innovations as solutions to climate change. “The biotech industry is seeking massive public and private investment for their untested technologies, whose health and environmental impacts have not been fully examined. Rather than be duped by yet another green mirage, governments should invest in real solutions to climate change and get serious about reducing CO2 emissions and commit to... Read more

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11/12/2008
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À qui appartient la nature?

Pouvoir des grandes sociétés et ultime frontière de la marchandisation du vivant

Problèmes, obsessions et occasions : une préface

TIl y a trente ans, l’humanité avait un problème; la science avait une obsession; et l’industrie tenait une occasion. Notre problème était l’injustice. Les rangs des affamés ne cessaient de grossir et les rangs des agriculteurs, de s’affaiblir. De son côté, la science était obsédée par la biotechnologie – la possibilité de modifier génétiquement les cultures et le bétail (et l’être humain) pour les doter de traits qui allaient régler tous nos problèmes. L’industrie agroalimentaire tenait l’occasion de prélever l’énorme valeur ajoutée tout au long de la... Read more

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01/15/2008
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Communiqué no. 96

Noviembre/Diciembre 2007 Con el argumento de “trascender el petróleo” las súper petroleras, los gigantes genéticos, nuevas empresas y otros actores forman alianzas que extenderán el control corporativo sobre cada vez más recursos en todos los rincones del planeta, al tiempo que las causas del cambio climático se mantienen intactas. Sin reconocer que los agrocombustibles de primera generación no son ni económicos ni ecológicos, los inversionistas ofrecen otras biotecnologías para convencernos de los combustibles alternativos. 

Asunto: En los países de la OCDE, los gobiernos proponen incentivos y subsidios masivos –tan grandes como 15 mil millones de dólares por año—  que alientan el auge de los agrocombustibles , y promueven alianzas sin precedentes para extender el control de las corporaciones sobre una enorme... Read more
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01/28/2008
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“No importa lo largo, sino lo inteligente que sea”, advierte el Grupo ETC

Grupo ETC Boletín de prensa 28 de enero de 2008 www.etcgroup.org

El Grupo ETC renovó su demanda de una moratoria a la liberación y comercialización de organismos artificiales, enfatizando que no hay regulación ni debate social en torno a la biología sintética. La insistencia en la moratoria ocurre en el contexto del anuncio que hiciera el equipo de investigación de J. Craig Venter, de haber logrado sintetizar artificialmente un genoma del tamaño del de una bacteria, utilizando secuencias de ADN ordenadas por correo.

El equipo del Instituto Venter nombró al genoma sintético  Micoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0, que es similar a su contraparte natural, una bacteria que habita en los genitales humanos, con el genoma conocido más pequeño de cualquier organismo vivo. El anuncio no es... Read more

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01/24/2008
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ETC Group News Release 24 January 2008 www.etcgroup.org

Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn’t Work)  “It’s not how long – but how wise” cautions ETC Group

ETC Group today renewed its call for a moratorium on the release and commercialization of synthetic organisms, asserting that societal debate on the oversight of synthetic biology is urgently overdue. The renewed call came as J. Craig Venter’s research team announced that it has constructed a bacterial-length synthetic genome in the lab using mail-order synthetic DNA sequences. They’ve named the synthetic genome, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0, and it’s similar to its counterpart in nature, a genital bacterium with the smallest known genome of any free living organism. The announcement is not breaking news because the work had been previously reported, but the details were published today in Science.

“Venter is... Read more

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11/21/2008
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El poder corporativo y la frontera final en la mercantilización de la vida

¿De quién es la naturaleza?

En este número 100 del Communiqué de ETC actualizamos Oligopolio S.A. – la serie en la que hacemos un seguimiento de la concentración del poder corporativo en las industrias de la vida. También analizamos los intentos de las últimas tres décadas del agronegocio por monopolizar el 24 por ciento de la naturaleza que ha sido mercantilizada, y denunciamos una nueva estrategia que procura captar las tres cuartas partes restantes que, hasta ahora, han permanecido fuera de la economía de mercado. 

Hace treinta años la humanidad tenía un problema, la ciencia tenía una fascinación, y la industria tenía una oportunidad. Nuestro problema era la injusticia. Las masas de hambrientos crecían y al mismo tiempo la cantidad de... Read more

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11/12/2008
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Who Owns Nature?

In this 100th issue of the ETC Communiqué we update Oligopoly, Inc. – our ongoing series tracking corporate concentration in the life industry. We also analyze the past three decades of agribusiness efforts to monopolize the 24% of living nature that has been commodified, and expose a new strategy to capture the remaining three-quarters that has, until now, remained beyond the market economy.

To download the full 48-page report, click on 'Download PDF,' above.

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05/20/2008
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News Release Coalition Against Biopiracy Wednesday, 21 May 2008 www.captainhookawards.org www.etcgroup.org

 

Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy 2008

The Coalition Against Biopiracy* exposes Hooks and celebrates Cogs

Winners announced at the UN’s Biodiversity Convention in Bonn

Today the world learned which corporations, governments, institutions and individuals earned a spot in biopiracy’s hall of shame when the Coalition Against Biopiracy (CAB) announced the winners of the 5th Captain Hook Awards at a lunch-time ceremony during the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn, Germany.

“The Maritim Hotel, where the CBD meets this week and next, was the perfect place to... Read more

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