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Market Wire - Environment (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
ST. LOUIS, MO (MARKET WIRE) CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (OTCBB: CLTH) announced today that it has entered into an agreement for an investment or placement into the Company of up to $3,000,000 via a Regulation S Offering on a best efforts basis. The placement is expected to be funded in the third quarter of this year and will enable CleanTech to complete the design and engineering for its fully...
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African Agriculture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% — far more than previously estimated — according to a confidential World Bank report. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived...
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PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Codon Devices and Algenol Biofuels announced today that the companies have entered into a multi-year partnership utilizing Codon
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Northeast Biofuels LLC (Fulton, New York), a branch of investor-owned Permolex International L.P. (Red Deer, Alberta), is currently going through start-up, commissioning and testing activities in expectations of grinding corn as early as next week at their new plant in Volney, New York, beginning ethanol...
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Mister Snitch! (Free subscription) | yesterday
The respected poverty and human rights watchdog says so-called 'green' policies are destroying lives . One UN adviser described biofuels as a "crime against humanity". Oxfam also states that biofuels "will do nothing to combat climate change".
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Dvorak Uncensored (Free subscription) | yesterday
Should we eat diesel and drive on corn fuel? World Food Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% — far more than previously estimated — according to a confidential World Bank report leaked from an internationally-respected economist at a global financial institution by the Guardian of Great Britain. The report starkly contradicts the U.S. government’s [...]
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Just Auto (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UK government has adopted a new approach to biofuels for transport and decided to slow down the enforcement of the UK's Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, which requires fuel suppliers to increase the mix of biofuels in road transport fuel by 1.25% year, rising from 2.5% in 2008-09 to 5% in 2010-11. Instead the government will consult on extending the 5% deadline to 2013/14.
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | yesterday
The IHT reports that the European Union is rethinking its support for expanded biofuel production in the face of the backlash against rising food prices. Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe's use of biofuels. At the same time, a new report for the British government cast fresh doubt on using fuels from crops...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
In response to the Gallagher review of the indirect effects of biofuels published today by the Renewable Fuels Agency, Dr Peter Cotgreave, Director of Public Affairs at the Royal Society said: "This Review highlights that a polarised debate on biofuels is misleading and unhelpful.
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TG Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is quite apparent that the biofuel manufacturers is taking a beating these days with accusations that the industry is causing food prices to jump. Now the Guardian cites a leaked a World Bank report claiming that biofuels have caused the cost of food to rise by about 75% - which is significantly higher than the single-digit numbers we have heard so far.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found that very little can be done to make palm oil plantations...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology found that very little can be done to make palm oil plantations...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In what shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, a recent world bank study has claimed that biofuels are behind the record food high prices. Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. And while the 75% [...]
