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UNICA says 4th of July is the right time to end ethanol tariffs

Jul 3rd 2008 4:14PM - 4 Comments

Fourth of July equals fireworks, parades and, if the Brazilian sugarcane growers - represented by UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association - get their way, a reduced or eliminated ethanol import tariff. UNICA is calling on the U.S. ...

Dakar 2010: Klever Kolberg goes ethanol with UNICA's help

Sep 6th 2009 9:36AM - 1 Comment

Klever Kolberg and his ethanol-powered MItsubishi Pajero Sport - Click above for high-res gallery The 2009 Dakar Rally was won by a pair of diesel-powered Touareg TDIs. The oil-burners will face a new type of competition in the 2010 Dakar race ...

Friends of the Earth, Brazilian sugarcane industry fight it out on ethanol

Sep 14th 2008 12:24PM - 3 Comments

Photo by Marxchivist. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. It's been so long (like six months) since there was a nice dispute about the impacts of Brazil's ethanol industry. In the past we've seen questions raised about the workers' ...

Brazilian sugarcane industry not happy with "Deadly Brew" documentary

Jan 26th 2008 8:28PM - 6 Comments

This past week, Bloomberg Television aired a documentary on the Brazilian ethanol industry called "Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol." With a name like that, you can probably guess that the filmmakers have a certain viewpoint on the way ethanol ...

Is sugarcane ethanol still a good alternative?

Jul 22nd 2008 10:58AM - 9 Comments

85 liters of ethanol per each tonne (metric) of sugarcane harvested. This is the output of a standard sugarcane ethanol plant. As we know, 45 percent of Brazilian fuel needs are covered by ethanol. Of course, what once was thought as the easy ...

The state of the ethanol market depends on which hemisphere you're in

Dec 3rd 2008 8:55AM - 0 Comments

Many of our readers aren't big fans of ethanol. But it made sense to a lot of people when the biofuel was actually cheaper than gasoline. Times have changed, and several fuel retailers in Missouri have stopped blending ethanol with gasoline because ...

President Clinton headed to Ethanol Summit 2009

May 7th 2009 8:07AM - 8 Comments

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has snagged former U.S. President Bill Clinton to be a speaker at the upcoming Ethanol Summit 2009. The Summit takes place in Sao Paulo, Brazil in early June. Part of Clinton's post-White House ...

Brazilian ethanol exports down

Dec 16th 2007 6:38PM - 6 Comments

Brazil's ethanol exports are expect to go down by 21.95 during the 2007-2008 fiscal year which ends in March, according to the Brazilian Association of Sugarcane Industries (Unica). From April 2006 to March 2007, Brazil exported 4,1 billion liters ...

Good sugarcane harvest means ethanol will continue to be cheap in Brazil

Sep 26th 2007 8:05AM - 0 Comments

Good news for Brazilians: the prices for ethanol has dropped 38 percent because of an increase in sugarcane production. Prices will continue its decrease, according to Júlio Maria Borges, an analyst at JOB Consultaría, even when the ...

GM holds biofuels summit at Detroit Grand Prix

Sep 1st 2008 6:22PM - 0 Comments

As part of the activities surrounding this past weekend's Detroit Grand Prix, General Motors hosted a panel discussion on biofuels. The panel consisted of GM VP Beth Lowery, Joel Valesco of UNICA (the Brazilian sugar cane industry trade group, ...

So Paulo searching for cleaner ethanol through mechanization

Jan 2nd 2008 1:56PM - 0 Comments

Marcos Jank, president of the Sugarcane Union Industry (Unica) in Brazil recently said that, "We're ready to discuss an environmental, social and economic certification of ethanol." São Paulo's ethanol industry is ready to introduce new ...

Review: Deadly Brew, the Human Toll of Ethanol

Jan 29th 2008 9:16AM - 4 Comments

I saw the Bloomberg documentary Deadly Brew, the Human Toll of Ethanol, which aired last Thursday and I have to agree with some of the criticisms that UNICA levels at the film. The documentary, which focused on the working conditions of cane cutters ...


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