Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Palm'
Greenpeace protests against Neste's palm biofuel plans
Greenpeace is objecting to Neste's plans to become the world's largest consumer of plam oil as it ramps up biofuels production, according to a report on ICIS news. Disclosure (I work for ICIS. About ICIS) Neste disputes the pressure group's...
The Malaysian Minster of Plantation Indusries on sustainability
The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Industries spoke exclusively to the World Refinning Association ahead of the Asian Biofuels Roundtable to be held in Malaysia at 23-25 March. It is interesting that there is no discussion of prior informed consent of...
Journal of Conservation Biology slams palm oil plantations
According to a report on the BBC today, the Journal of Conservation Biology says that palm oil plantations are bad for biodiversity in countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. It takes a higher degree, a research grant and the whole...
Saving forest is beyond the power of Indonesia's government
Saving forest is beyond the power of Indonesia's government, according to a report in the Jakarta Post. Here's the extract Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono on Tuesday defended Indonesia's drive to expand oil palm plantations, despite a demand by environmentalists for...
Pertamina launches biodisel in Indonesia
Palm oil biodiesel is being sold to industry by Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil company, says Planet Ark. There is no comment about sustainabilty, or biodiversity. Indonesia sees this as one move to reduce dependency on foreign oil....
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports.
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME -5 & -0 CFPP), the report will now also reflect biodiesel...
EU Parliament's decison to change its biofuel approach worries Malaysians
The European Parliament's decision to change its approach to biofuels has worried the Malaysian government, accroding to a report in Bernama.com.The Euroepan parliament decided on 11 September that there would be a binding 5% quota on the use of biofuels...
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...
The FT has noticed that there's a link between oil and palm oil prices
The FT has noticed that there's a link between oil and palm oil prices in a piece in today's edition. In as much of the article that the paper is making free, they say: The prospect of crude oil staying...
Asian Biodiesel production economics
Asian Biodiesel production economics are likely to remain tight in 2008 unless the local governments decide to start subsidising their production, according to an article by my colleague Anu Agarwal, writing in ICIS News. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About...
D1 oils says Jatropha is different in Bali
D1 Oils is saying that biodiesel from Jatropha is different from biodiesel derived from other plant sources at the WTO meeting in Bali,and that not all biodiesel should be tarred with the same brush by NGOs, according to Biofuel Review....
Round table on sustainable palm oil and NGO disquiet
The Round Table on Sustainable Palm oil used its fifth meeting in Kuala Lumpur last week to outline its certification scheme for sustainable palm oil on a quick reading of the headings it seems to give some protection to indigenous...
Palm oil at new high on food sector demand
Palm oil is at a new high on food sector demand, according to my colleague Anu Agrual, writing from Singapore on ICIS news. Disclosure (I work for ICIS: About ICIS) The key message from the story is that in the...
There's more than palm oil in palm oil
There's more than palm oil in palm oil, according to a story in ICIS Chemical Business this week, which features Carotech, a company in Indonesia which has found ways of extracting phytonutrients and producing methyl ester from the palm oil...
Malaysia's palm oil crop is hit by bad weather
Malaysia's palm oil crop is hit by bad weather, according to a report on AFX. The harvest looks to be about 14m tonnes compared to 16.5m tonnes predicted earlier in the year. That's not going to help biodisel production economics....
Blending levels and biofuels
BP and the German biofuel group Verband der Deutschen Biokraftstoffindustrie (VDB) have fallen out over the level of blending and the type of biodisel to be blended in Germany, according to a report on ICIS news (Disclosure: I work for...
High price of edible oils slows Asian biofuel production
The high price of edible oils slows Asian biofuel production, according to a report from ICIS news by my pal Anu Agarwal in Singapore (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) “No more than 10 biodiesel plants are running in...
Greenpeace and the threat to Orang Utans
I've written a bit about the threat to orang utans from biodiesel made from palm oil in southeast Asian countries. There is a really powerful video from Greenpeace that makes the point more eloquently than I can. Here it is....
Indonesian forests under palm oil threat
Indioneisa's tropical forests are under threat from illegal logging and palm oil plantations, according to a report in today's Planet Ark. "Sixty percent of the protected and conservation areas are already badly damaged due to illegal logging and palm oil...
Biofuels may be green but look increasingly bloody
Biofuels may be green but look increasingly bloody in Columbia, where according to the Guardian on line... Armed groups in Colombia are driving peasants off their land to make way for plantations of palm oil, a biofuel that is being...
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