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The EU is going to rethink its biofuel policy

After admitting that no one thought about the environmental or the economic implications of turning specific cropsinto biofuels, the EU has decided to think again about the use of those fuels. The EU's target for biofuels was 10 percent by 2010 but this target is now going to be reviewed. Stavros Dimas (pictured on the right), the EU's Commissioner for Environmental affairs said that the EU didn't forecast the actual implications that this 10 percent goal could have on the environment. Some recent studies show that intensive production of ... Read more →

Environmental group against three biodiesel plants in Seville, Spain Xavier Navarro

Ecologistas en Acción (EeA), one of Spain's largest environmental groups, has started a campaign against the installation of three biodiesel manufacturing plants in the Port of Seville in ...

Neste Oil starts construction of the biggest biodiesel manufacturing plant of the world in Singapore Xavier Navarro

Finnish oil company Neste has started preparing to build what they are claiming will be the biggest biodiesel production facility in the world in Singapore. The company has invested about 550 million ...

CSIRO: Yes to biofuels, no to palm oil biodiesel Xavier Navarro

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, which is Australia's national science agency, released a report that speaks quite in favor of biodiesel but raises the alarm ...

Jakarta Post editorial on the palm-oil-for-biofuels question Sebastian Blanco

Even though Rhett Butler is based in San Francisco, his scope is global. Not that long ago, Butler wrote about the destruction of the Brazilian cerrado thanks, in part, to biofuel production in that ...


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