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·2/6/2008 - Biofuels: What do the experts think?, CNN

·20/1/2008 - Dark side of a hot biofuel, Sacramento Bee

·30/11/2007 - Indonesia: For peat's sake - stopping the rot in logging industry, Sydney Morning Herald

·2/4/2007 - Oil from palms: scientists weigh the downside of a once-popular alternative, Associated Press

·6/12/2005 - The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis, Guardian

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·Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB)

·South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming

·Ghosts on our Own Land

·Palm Oil Action

·Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal

·Biofuel by Decree

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1. Forest Protection News Topics           Rank: 68%

Corn · Biofuel Deforestation · Biofuel Ethanol · Biofuel Food Prices · Biofuel Forests · Biofuel Human Rights · Biofuel Indonesia · Biofuel Land Disputes · Biofuel Orangutan · Biofuel Palm Oil · Biofuel Palm Oil Orangutan · Biofuel Peat Burn · Biofuel Peatland · Biofuel Plantations · Biofuel Rainforest · Biofuel Rainforests · Biofuel Soy · Biofuel Soy Brazil · Biological Diversity · Boreal · Boreal Forest · Brazil Rain Forest · Brazil Rainforest · Buffalo · Carbon...
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2. NEWSLETTER           Rank: 67%

of peatlands became relevant from a nature conservation point of view. Linnaeus' plea for biofuel Reidar Peterson (2004), the 1992-1996 president of IPS, quotes the "Skånska resa" ("Scanian Travels" 1749) of Carl von Linné (1707-1778): "...To burn a peat moss does twenty times as much damage, as a forest can twenty times grow up before a new and equally good peat moss matures. ... It may seem to be a good invention to use the fens for fuel and thus spare the wood; but a forest can grow...
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3. biofuelwatch: action alerts           Rank: 67%

to our email list to receive action alerts or discussion enter email address Submit See recent posts > Urgent Action UK: Object to Vogen Energy's planned power station in Newport This alert is for UK residents only. Please object to plans for a biofuel power station that the company Vogen Energy intends to build in Newport, South Wales. The power station would burn palm oil and possibly soybean oil. People local to the planned power station please click here. UK residents not local to the...
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4. biofuelwatch: VO-Gen alert June 2009           Rank: 67%

Go direct to alert (or page down). Background A company called Vogen is planning to build a new electricity power station at the Alexandra Dock, Newport, South Wales. Newport City Council is now deciding whether to give planning permission. It will burn 40,000 tonnes of biofuel (vegetable oil) a year, including virgin vegetable oil and palm oil. The power station will lead to increased local air pollution, global climate change, rainforest destruction, extinction of animals in the rainforest,...
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5. biofuelwatch: VO-Gen alert May 2009           Rank: 67%

more effective. If you decide to send a planning objection by some other means, please include the planning reference number 09/0195 and your full postal address. Under the letter you can find more background information about the problems with biofuels and power stations such as the one planned by Vogen. Dear Sir/Madam Please refuse permission for VO-Gen power generation plant subject VO-Gen Energy Ltd application for the construction and operation of a 25 MWe power plant at Alexandra Docks,...
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6. Mission report geohydrology           Rank: 67%

of current deforestation. Out of 27 million hectares of peatland, 12 million hectares (45%) are currently deforested and mostly drained. One important crop in drained peatlands is palm oil, which is increasingly used as a biofuel in Europe. In the PEAT-CO2 project, present and future emissions from drained peatlands were quantified using the latest data on peat extent and depth, present and projected land use and water management practice, decomposition rates and fire emissions. It was found...
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7. IMCG Newsletter 2007-2           Rank: 66%

of peatlands became relevant from a nature conservation point of view. Linnaeus' plea for biofuel Reidar Peterson (2004), the 1992-1996 president of IPS, quotes the "Skånska resa" ("Scanian Travels" 1749) of Carl von Linné (1707-1778): "...To burn a peat moss does twenty times as much damage, as a forest can twenty times grow up before a new and equally good peat moss matures. ... It may seem to be a good invention to use the fens for fuel and thus spare the wood; but a forest can grow...
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