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·30/8/2010 - Activists call for a block on biofuel stations in bid to protect forests, Scotsman
·30/8/2010 - Biofuel demand driving Africa land grab - report, Reuters
·29/8/2010 - Friends of the Earth urges end to 'land grab' for biofuels, Guardian
·20/8/2010 - Forestry Commission launches carbon-offset standard, Business Green
·7/8/2010 - Why Dmitry Medvedev should turn his attention to Russia's peat bogs, Guardian
·29/4/2010 - Sustainable Biofuels From Forests, Grasslands And Rangelands, redOrbit
·21/4/2010 - Carbon, nitrogen link may provide new ways to mitigate pollution problems, ScienceDaily
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- 1. Biofuel Forests News, Links and Information from Forests.Org Rank: 73%
- Ethanol from Corn Bad for the Climate?, Scientific American ·13/1/2010 - Biomass seen fueling California economic revival, Sacramento Bee ·11/1/2010 - Mich.'s biomass rush sparks air quality, forest depletion worries, Various more Biofuel Forests news Biofuel Forests Link Results ·Biofuels threaten to accelerate global warming ·Forest Protection Portal ·Rainforest Action Network...
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- 2. Biofuel Monocultures Rank: 73%
- Forests are considered sacred by most environmentalists. Over the past twelve years we've reported on deforestation and reforestation, and there has always been a consistent refrain from environmentalists: Monocultures are not forests. This point of view, while debateable, is one we basically agree with. So why are environmentalists relatively silent on the potential problems with biofuel...
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- 3. Ethiopia: Forests for Biofuel - a Dubious Swap? (FAO / allAfrica... Rank: 72%
- Forests for Biofuel - a Dubious Swap? (FAO / allAfrica / Daily Monitor) Read at : FAO INFOSYLVA 2007-17 "Kwon, Cheemin (FOEL)" <Cheemin.Kwon@fao.org> Forest Policy Info Mailing List <forests-l@lists.iisd.ca> allAfrica http://allafrica.com/stories/200708080781.html Ethiopia: Forests for Biofuel - a Dubious Swap? Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa) 8 August 2007 Berhe W.aregay Addis Ababa One wonders why,...
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- 4. Indonesia: Biofuel era has arrived Rank: 72%
- These targets are ambitious, to say the least. Even the U.S., which began developing biofuel much earlier than Indonesia, produced only about 280 million liters of biodiesel blends last year. American biofuel consumption, including ethanol, so far accounts for a mere 3 percent of the country's total fuel demand. Purnomo himself admitted that the blueprint for biofuel development, which was...
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- 5. Biofuel causing environmental crisis Rank: 72%
- Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests. To meet the new European demand for bio power, increasing areas of the forests are being flattened to make way for palm oil plantations, wiping out the habitats of endangered species like the orang-utan. More than that, plantation owners regard these primates as pests and pay for them to be exterminated by hunters. It's also widely believed that illegal...
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- 6. Doubts over biofuel Rank: 72%
- Government has frozen all new applications. Of the approved 92 licensees, only six are operating, producing 350,000 tonnes annually. "In just 10 months, the whole economics of the business went haywire," says Carotino Sdn Bhd executive director, U.R. Unnithan, of the impact of crude palm oil price soaring from RM1,400 a tonne in June 2006 to RM2,200 last month. "There is no money to be made....
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- 7. Energizing biofuel Rank: 72%
- The Obama administration has given biofuels a major boost. The President has announced he'll tap nearly $800 million from the economic recovery package to fuel agro-energy research and speed up commercialization. And to ensure biofuels don't aggravate to climate change or displace food crops for fuel, the Administration also created an interagency group made up of the EPA, and the departments of...
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