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Waste collection company Bahamas Waste has begun constructing its $750,000 (€563,000) biofuels facility that could see the production of biodiesel from as early as June this year. Over 50 rubbish trucks will switch from using fossil fuels and run on biodiesel once the production facility comes online. With the manufacturers license and permits in order, Bahamas Waste is now concentrating on…
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North Carolina’s Eastern Petroleum will open its new cassava-fed bioethanol plant in 2012, after negotiating with technology providers. ‘We are currently negotiating for the supplies. We are finalising talks with the technology providers from India, Korea and China. We expect to have a final investment decision this year and the plant to open in two-and-half years,’ Eastern Petroleum…
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While the US ethanol industry still awaits news of an E15 blending allowance exports of the fuel remain high. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) says April ethanol exports reached 40.8 million gallons, including both denatured and undenatured non-beverage ethanol. That volume compares to 48.3 million gallons in March. Year-to-date exports are 124.3 million gallons, which means 2010 exports…
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Aura Bio Corp., a US company operating in Nigeria, has entered into a formal agreement with Nigerian biodiesel producer Tolao Energy. The agreement comes after Aura Bio Corp. completed its due diligence assessment of the biodiesel project in Cross River State, Nigeria. The project will see the cultivation of jatropha on 3,000 acres of land and the construction of a biodiesel plant with an…
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Oil company Murphy Oil Corporation is said to be considering the acquisition of a shuttered fuel ethanol plant in Hereford, Texas, US, formerly owned by energy firm Panda Energy, after the Panda Group sold its subsidiary Hereford Biofuels and the unfinished plant to creditors earlier this year for $25 million (€18.9 million). Murphy Oil is another of an increasing number of oil companies…
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In Wisconsin, US, Sun Power Biodiesel is expected to receive over $1 million (€788,161) in grants. The seven-year low-interest loan will be put towards upgrading the firm’s equipment and infrastructure at its Cumberland-based 3 million gallon-a-year biodiesel plant. The project will create around 31 jobs. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is reported to have provided Sun Power…
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Thailand-based Bangchak Petroleum is planning to invest approximately Bt2 billion (€48.7 million) in the acquisition of at least two ethanol plants by 2011. The company currently sells 95-octane petrol but plans to stop doing so by 2012 as ethanol demand for transportation fuel is expected to increase from 200,000 barrels per day in 2009 to 400,000 barrels per day. According to Bangchak’s…
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Following its dedication ceremony in July earlier this year, sustainable and renewable energy firm Growth Design Energy expects that construction on its biodiesel plant in the US should begin before 2011. The $9.3 million (€6.69 million) facility, based in Forest City, Iowa will produce 3 million gallons of biodiesel a year from a number of feedstocks, including animal fat and fat collected…
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Following the recent stakeholders' consultation organised by the European Commission to address the issue of indirect land use change (ILUC), the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) calls on the Commission to review modelling work and ensure scientific robustness to calculate ILUC. Developing the science to calculate and understand ILUC has become crucial and Emmanuel…
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Europe’s main biofuel production port, and a key player in bulk liquid fuel storage, Ghent has 600 hectares of land available for investment following 14 years of infrastructural work. The new space has already attracted 13 companies and at the end of November Brazil-based Companhia Brasileira de Logistica announced it would invest €70 million in the construction of a liquid bulk terminal,…
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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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In the US, fuel terminal operator Blendstar has opened an ethanol blending terminal in Collins, Mississippi. The new terminal, which is Blendstar's eighth operating facility located in six states, will blend ethanol from Green Plain Renewable Energy, which holds a majority stake in Blendstar. The Mississippi terminal is wholly-owned and controlled by Blendstar. ‘This new terminal not…
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In the US, with the Navy’s plans to cut its use of fossil fuel and convert to using biofuels for ships, aircrafts and everything in between, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Navy. This is a promise between both organisations to work together. The memorandum of understanding has been signed in the hope that this will lead to increased use of…
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A proposed biomass plant in Scott County, Indiana, has created chaos and outcry amongst locals. The $100 million (€73 million) Liberty Green Renewables plant will burn untreated and unpainted woodchips that will generate electricity to supply to utilities across the region. Liberty Green also plans to construct another biomass plant in Crawford County, near Milltown, and the proposed permits…
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