Biofuel
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Biofuel battle heats up (more)
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So I was watching the Superbowl game on Sunday (ok I admit I am more into commercials than the game itself since my Giants team was not involved), when I saw the Dodge Ram truck commercial “God Made a Farmer” and I thought about the recent 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards proposal by the US Environmental…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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Sorry for the delayed news roundup. I have been working hard negotiating with a couple of consulting firms for possible employment opportunities. I’m keeping my fingers crossed! In the biofuels and energy market, the big news last week was the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) proposal, and the stepping down of…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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BIOX resumes biodiesel production Canada-based BIOX Corp. has resumed biodiesel production at its Hamilton, Ontario, facility after temporarily suspending operation last October. The company stated improvements in US biodiesel market and confidence in market outlook as reasons for resuming production. The facility has 67m liters/year of biodiesel production capacity. Electrawinds starts biodiesel operations Belgian green…
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2013 New Biofuels Reports
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Two new reports just came out for this year covering biofuels. This first one about the sustainability challenge concerning global biofuels is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). FAO released a report that addresses core issue of the sustainability (economic, environmental, social) of biofuels and related feedstocks worldwide. It…
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Biofuel news roundup
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It seems all my anti-flu precautions did not work, unfortunately, as I am now a mass of sneezing, sniffling, virus-laden human being. Hopefully, this will pass very soon. Here are several announcements in the biofuel industry and there seems to be a lot of them coming out everyday. Vinema to build ethanol plants in Brazil…