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·11/6/2009 - U.S. climate bill needs improvements: USDA's Vilsack, Reuters
·3/6/2009 - Lawmakers seek broader U.S. biomass-for-biofuel list, Reuters
·27/4/2009 - Walden calls Obama's energy bill 'an Oregon job killer', Mail Tribune
·17/4/2009 - The biofuel bubble | Video, BusinessWeek
·11/3/2009 - Government study reveals US will miss biofuel targets, Business Green
·3/3/2009 - Uncertainty clouds plan to extract biofuel from Michigan's forests, Michigan Messenger
·22/1/2009 - Cellulosic ethanol plants grow cash backing, Business Green
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- 1. Doubts over biofuel Rank: 73%
- their governments to not import the biofuel for fear that oil palm farming will accelerate deforestation and destroy habitat for wildlife such as the orang utan. There are also studies showing that biodiesel derived from crops grown on peat forests adds to, not reduce, carbon dioxide emissions. "The EU (European Union) has said that it will only use sustainably produced feedstock for biofuel. Malaysia must not be over-enthusiastic about biodiesel and should be more realistic," says...
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- 2. Biofuel Monocultures Rank: 73%
- Monocultures 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 plantations? Most environmentalists as well make much of the "carrying capacity" of the planet....
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- 3. Cellulosic biofuels endanger old-growth forests in the southern... Rank: 73%
- SHARE: | | An interview with Scot Quandra of the Dogwood Alliance: Cellulosic biofuels endanger old-growth forests in the southern U.S. Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com October 16, 2008 Cellulosic biofuel is on its way. This second generation biofuel - so-called because it does not involve food crops - has excited many researchers and policymakers who hope for a sustainable energy source that lowers carbon emissions. However, some believe that cellulosic biofuel may prove less-than-perfect. Just as...
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- 4. The Great Biofuels Con Rank: 73%
- Con Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels - the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy. Two years ago biofuels were still being hailed as a dream solution to what was seen as one of the most urgent problems confronting mankind - our dependence on fossil fuels, which are not only finite but seemed to be threatening the world with...
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- 5. Biofuel Backfire Rank: 73%
- only yesterday that "biofuels" was all the rage: not only has President Bush relentlessly touted increased ethanol use, but so has House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The idea of increasing use of crops for fuel seemed to have it all - the outward virtues of reducing foreign oil use and helping the climate - and the political reality of letting both parties duke it out for the farm vote. Not only that, but a successful biofuels mandate worked in Europe. Or did it? With Congress still wrestling behind...
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- 6. Biofuels menace rainforests Rank: 73%
- Substituting fossil fuels with biofuels will not only add more carbon to the atmosphere, but will destroy primary forests, biodiversity and livelihoods, writes Tristan Farrow. The study, published in this week's issue of Science, argues that we would be better off, replanting forests, improving the efficiency of fossil fuel engines, and moving to carbon free alternatives over the next 30 years. Renton Righelato from the World Land Trust and the lead scientist in the study, said: "It is a mistake...
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- 7. The great biofuel fraud Rank: 73%
- glyphosate herbicides such as Roundup are clearly smiling on the way to the bank. Going global with biofuels The Bush-Lula pact is just the start of a growing global rush to plant crops for biofuel. Huge sugarcane, oil-palm and soy plantations for biofuel refining are taking over forests and grasslands in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay. Soy cultivation has already caused the deforestation of 21 million hectares in Brazil and 14 million hectares in Argentina, with no end in...
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