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Australian biofuel imports hurting SE Asian rainforests

As anyone who has seen episode 2F13 of The Simpsons (aka Bart vs. Australia) knows, introducing foreign species into an environment can have dangerous effects. A real-world situation - not really all that similar, but I like to reference the Simpsons whenever possible - in Australia shows the sad connection between environmental destruction and the way some biofuels are produced. The Australian reports that Australia's large-scale biofuel imports are exacerbating the "widespread destruction of tropical rainforests in Indonesia and ... Read more →

Palm oil biodiesel coming in Thailand thanks to private-public partnership Sebastian Blanco

Australian biofuel imports hurting SE Asian rainforests 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Palm oil biodiesel coming in Thailand thanks to private-public partnership 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Thailand's state-owned oil firm and private companies in the country announced recently. The partnership will grow palm trees on 23,722 unused acres in the southern part of the country and should be able to produce about 9.6 million gallons a year in the biodiesel production facilities that will ...

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