Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Gallagher'

The good, the bad, the ugly 2008/2009

The best piece of work on Biofuels 2008? For me that was the The Gallagher Review of the indirect effects of biofuels production. If you're a serious player in this market, you should read that report. Worst technology to...

1000 entries and what have we learned?

Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented...

Gallagher: the direction of biofuel policy in the UK

Gallagher has some thoughts on the direction of biofuel policy in the UK. I've left this to the last because, although it is the most interesting and proposes significant divergency from the EU position, I am not certain that the...

Second generation biofuels and Gallagher

The Gallagher review has this to say on second generation biofuels they are immature, they could produce greenhouse gas savings, but only if they're not grown on land currently used for agriculture and that they need significant incentives and support...

Are biofuels causing food price rises? Gallagher's answer

The Gallagher Review into biofuels has a view on how the diversion of food into biofuel crops affects prices but its not clear. Partly that's because it's economics (if predicting the weather is hard, why do economists try to produce simple...

Sustainable biofuels are possible says Gallagher report

The Ed Gallagher, chair of the UK's Renewable Fuels Agency says that sustainable biofuels are possible but:We cannot afford to abandon biofuels as part of a low carbon transport future. Equally, we cannot continue producing biofuels which are ultimately more...