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U. S. Ethanol Policy Frustrates Environmentalists

U. S. corn growers expressed relief when the Obama administration unveiled new environmental rules that would boost use of corn-based biofuel, but green groups complained the guidelines may fill the air with nitrogen, a greenhouse gas viewed as more potent than carbon. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled what amounted to a tweaking of the national
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Biodiesel To Cut Argentine Soyoil Sales

Increasing Argentine domestic biodiesel use will cut the country’s soyoil exports in 2010, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecast Feb. 9. If Argentine government plans for five per cent biodiesel content in fossil diesel are implemented, coupled with compulsory use of biodiesel for electricity generation, this would create annual demand for 860,000 tonnes of biodiesel,
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BIMAT Maps Potential Green Gold Mines

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“In Canada, we’ve always said that we’re going to use grain-based ethanol and biodiesel from canola as a bridge to get the market started. Longterm, we want to look at sustainable biomass conversion.” – MARK STUMBORG How long the world’s supplies of oil and gas will hold out is anybody’s guess. Some experts say the
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U. S. Sees Ethanol Output Eventually Meeting Target

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U. S. ethanol production could eventually top 14.5 billion gallons a year, up 16 per cent from output capacity at the beginning of 2009 and enough to blend 10 per cent of the fuel into every gallon of the nation’s gasoline, the U. S. government said Nov. 18. U. S. ethanol output capacity stood at
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Canada Biofuels Sector Seeks Bigger Fuel Mandate

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Canada’s biofuels industry will ask the government early in 2010 to expand fuel blending mandates and production incentives, even as plants rapidly boost capacity to meet incoming targets, the president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association said Nov. 12. “We absolutely would be looking at all those instruments as a way of ensuring we build
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Biodiesel Mandate In Effect For Manitoba

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Manitoba has become the first province in Canada to require biodiesel in diesel fuel. Fuel suppliers are now legally required to include a blend of two per cent biodiesel in their overall sales of on-road and off-road diesel. Manitoba is expected to use at least 20 million litres of biodiesel a year as a result
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Province Mandates Biofuels In Diesel

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Manitoba will make an average two per cent biodiesel content mandatory for all diesel fuel sold in the province, starting Nov. 1. “Biodiesel will benefit Manitoba’s agricultural communities while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 56,000 tonnes, the equivalent of taking 11,000 cars off the road annually,” provincial Energy Minister Jim Rondeau said in a release
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Water Worries Cloud Future For U. S. Biofuel

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“We really have to ask ourselves, do we want to be driving with renewable fuels or with gasoline made from petroleum resources?” – BRENT ERICKSON, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION It’s corn-planting time in the U. S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather – and hoping
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Bioeconomy Remains Important To Farmers’ Future

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Biofuels and the fledgling bioproducts industry continue to provide an important economic opportunity for farmers despite troubles the industry has experienced in the past year, says Gordon Quaiattini, president of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association. A recent report from the International Energy Agency should clear up charges biofuels are a greater source of greenhouse gases
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Big Oil Invests In Ethanol

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If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb. 8 when Valero Energy Corp., the largest crude oil refiner in North America, announced its intent to purchase five of the choicest plants owned by mega-biofuel maker, mega-bankrupt VeraSun Energy. Should

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