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The 24 December 2010 saw pure biodiesel derived from waste animal fats or vegetable oils exempt from consumption taxes, following action by China’s Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation.
The tax exemption has been introduced retroactively, effective from 1 January 2009. Consumption taxes paid on biodiesel from this date onwards will be refunded.
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Minnesota, US-based ethanol plant Heron Lake BioEnergy is to pay a $66,000 (€50,260) fine following environmental violations.
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) issued the fine on 27 December for infringements that go back to October 2005 when the plant was being built.
According to the MPCA, Heron Lake BioEnergy breeched the conditions of its air quality and water quality permits on…
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In the US the state of Kentucky is looking to set up a new programme to study biofuel viability.
As part of the initiative Kentucky is to establish around 700 acres of switchgrass fields and is to provide incentives to local farmers who are interested in participating.
In addition to assistance, Natural Resources Conservation would also provide funding for those farmers willing to plant the…
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With a goal to slash CO2 emissions by 80% by the year 2050, Super E10 will be available to German drivers on 1 January 2011.
Super E10 is a biofuel with a higher ethanol content and is more environmentally friendly than E5, which is currently blended with conventional transport fuel.
According to the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), an estimated 90% of German…
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Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. is to partner with Sime Darby Plantation Sdn., a unit of Malaysia’s Sime Darby Bhd, for a bioethanol plant in the state of Selangor, Malaysia.
Together Mitsui and Sime Darby will build and operate the demonstration facility, which will manufacture 1.25 million tonnes a day of bioethanol from empty oil palm fruit branches.
Speaking about the project…
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Noble Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered agricultural, industrial and energy products company, has acquired two sugarcane/ethanol mills in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Both the mills, Catanduva and Potirendaba, are fully operational, situated 50km apart from each other and located just over 100km from Noble’s UNP facility. Catanduva has a nominal sugarcane crushing capacity of 4.6…
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Novasep Process, the bioprocess division of Novasep, a supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life sciences industry, and Danisco, a Denmark-headquartered company dedicated to food and feed ingredients, enzymes and biobased solutions, are to scale-up a new extraction process for the production of natural betaine.
The plant will use vanasse, a byproduct of bioethanol derived from sugar beet.…
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On 20 December 2010 Denmark-based bioinnovation company Novozymes A/S signed a definitive agreement to acquire EMD/Merck Crop BioScience Inc. from Merck KGaA for $275 million (€209.4 million).
The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to close between February and May 2011. The total sum is to be paid to Merck KGaA, subject to customary…
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21 December 2010 saw the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia fully deny the petition by the National Petrochemical Refiners Association and the American Petroleum Institute challenging the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2).
According to petitioners, the RFS2 final regulation violated the statutory requirements setting separate biomass based diesel volume requirements for…
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The emergence of specialty pipelines that deliver renewable and alternative energy substances from the point of production to points of blending, storage or end use will be a catalyst for growth in the development of current and future alternative fuel projects, according to Specialty Pipelines for Renewable and Alternative Energy Substances by market research publisher SBI Energy.
The report…
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Caldic Chemie, a producer and storage and handling terminal for methanol and bioethanol, has completed the second phase of its tank park expansion in the Port of Rotterdam.
The entire tank park now has a total capacity of 172,500m3. The nine new tanks will all be used for the storage and handling of methanol and bioethanol. All the tanks which were built in the first phase of the expansion have…
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US president Barack Obama signed new tax legislation on 17 December extending incentives for ethanol and biodiesel.
The president signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in the afternoon, following a late night approval from the US House on 16 December.
The Senate approved the legislation on 15 December.
For ethanol, the legislation includes:…
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Abengoa Bioenergy Netherlands is involved in a deal to pipe waste carbon dioxide from its bioethanol plant in Rotterdam to greenhouses in the Zuidplaspolder within an area of around 550 hectares.
The European Commission (EC) authorised the move, under EU state aid rules, for a €5 million investment aid for the pipeline infrastructure.
The waste CO2 will be used to enhance crop growth,…
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Argentina's installed capacity of 1.8 million tonnes of biodiesel a year is set to rise to 2.5 million tonnes a year in 2011.
The road to 2011 has seen a ramp-up in production with Argentina's biodiesel output totalling 1.5 million tonnes in the first ten months of 2010, up 56.8% on the year.
The country exported 76.7% of the output. Its biodiesel exports rose 22.4% to 1.12 million…
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Following a $27 million (€20.2 million) boost from the US Ex-Im Bank Mexican biofuels company Recursos Renovables Alternativos (RRA) plans to begin construction of its first plant to produce biodiesel from algae oil in February.
The financing is used for equipment at the first plant, which will most likely be built in Campeche state, but also could be located near Merida in Yucatan state.
The…
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