In Germany, the country is expecting to nearly double the land used for growing energy crops by 2020 to 3 million hectares, up from a current 1.8 million hectares now. The agriculture minister stressed that priority will be given for food production over energy production, however.
In Tanzania, the USDA’s initiative to help smallholder farmers—Pamoja Inc—says that jatropha is a bad idea for Africa when grown as plantations and should instead be grown by farmers on a small-scale basis as hedgerows. “In a country where over 90 per cent of all fuel consumed is for domestic energy, the priority need is […]
ActionAidUK: “We want our land back.” Check out Anisia’s story to find out about the real life impact of biofuels in Mozambique SustainableNet: The Last Days of Ethanol? – FrontPage Magazine algaebiofuels: @climatesavers interesting article about new perspectives on biofuels BHPanimalwatch: Paper Industry shell game with energy subsidies: BIOblogger: We all need to back RFS2. […]
In India, the country’s national oil company Oil India Limited (OIL) has signed a ten-year agreement with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to broaden the scope of their joint research to include Petroleum Biotechnology and New & Renewable Energy Sources. The two organizations have previously collaborated on algae research but this agreement will broaden […]
In Ireland, the Teagasc— the country’s agriculture and food development authority —blames the 4% national biofuel blending policy for destroying the country’s chances at a long-term biofuel industry. The way the policy was set up, it was cheaper for blenders to import biofuel rather than buy from domestic producers, which has led to the mothballing […]
In Washington, The American Council On Renewable Energy appointed retired Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn as President, and DOE Assistant Secretary Dan Reicher as Chairman.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.19 percent to 93.54 as advanced biofuels declined. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) ebbed 0.11 percent to $36.31, while Gevo (GEVO) tumbled 3.40 percent to $19.63. Among other equities, Mission NewEnergy (MNEL) fell 3.43 percent to $8.44. Overall, advances and declines […]
The good news? The Biofuels Digest Index gained 39.8 percent, year on year. The bad news? It’s a volatile, stock-by-stock sector where the tide may be rising but not lifting all the boats. By most conventional measures, biofuels had a vintage year in 2010 and into early 2011 – industry revenues up sharply, oil price […]
In Washington, Marvin Odom, president of Shell Oil in the US and director of the company’s Upstream Americas business, said he expects biofuels to be “the most practical solution” for GHG emission reductions in transport during the next 20 years and called on governments to give more subsidies in order to speed up production. Odom […]
In Iowa, the state’s Economic Development Board has awarded a $2 million loan and tax credits worth up to $603,000 to a planned Cargill corn milling and ethanol facility near Ft. Dodge. Cargill, who bought the partially-finished plant from Tate & Lyle last month for $54 million, will be forgiven for half of the loan […]
