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Climate policies will continue chipping away at fossil fuels’ role as the mainstay of global energy use, despite Donald Trump's appointment as US president in 2017, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
The report expects that while the election of Trump as US president is not likely to halt the gradual transition towards cleaner energy globally, it will…
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Ecologist, environmental policy analyst and former Ontario Environment Commissioner Gord Miller has criticised Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission’s anti-biofuels report titled Course Correction.
Miller's report, Staying the Course, rejects Ecofiscal's data, methodology and conclusions.
According to the Ecofiscal report, provincial and federal production subsidies should be…
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Finnish forest industry company UPM has announced that it has successfully tested Finnish wood-based diesel fuel both in laboratory conditions as well as in traffic.
According to the frim its renewable diesel called UPM BioVErno, works just “like the best diesel fuels”.
The laboratory tests of renewable UPM BioVerno diesel were conducted in the VTT Technical Research Centre (VTT) and…
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The UK’s Department of Transport has published a consultation on the future of renewable transport, setting out long-term targets towards 2030.
The consultation proposes capping crop-based fuels to below EU levels. It also introduces a new sub-target for development fuels such as biomethane, hydrogen and aviation fuels.
Some of the proposals include the following:
Raise the Renewable…
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Claims from consumer advocates that Queensland motorists will pay millions more for fuel each year after the introduction of the State Government’s ethanol mandate are misleading and misinformed, Larissa Rose, managing Director of the Queensland Renewable Fuels Association, has said.
Rose maintained that Queensland motorists should not expect to pay more at the petrol pumps due to…
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The European Commission has released its long-awaited revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and proposed the phase-out of food crop-based biofuels from 2021.
The EC also wants to simultaneously introduce a sub-mandate for advanced biofuels. It also proposes to introduce a new sustainability criterion on forest biomass.
It proposes an obligation on European transport fuel suppliers to provide…
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The European biofuels industry has sharply criticised the European Commission’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
The EC has made plans to minimise Indirect Land-Use Change (ILC) impacts. In relation to this, the revised RED will introduce a cap on the contribution of food-based biofuels towards the EU renewable energy target, starting at 7% in 2021 and going down progressively to…
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Biofuels and oil trade bodies have written a letter to the US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the organisation not to redefine the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The issue centres on whether to change the point in the fuel supply chain in which a party becomes obligated to comply with the RFS requirements. This can be accomplished through a…
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In the US, nearly three dozen biodiesel leaders from Kansas to Rhode Island took to the halls of Congress this week to promote US advanced biofuel.
“We have a great message to share with our elected officials. Biodiesel is working today to support jobs, diversify our fuel options and support American energy security,” said National Biodiesel Board (NBB) CEO, Donnell Rehagen.
“We…
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Thousands of fish have been killed by 3,000 gallons of biodiesel that leaked into a river from a truck stop in Kentucky, US.
The diesel leaked into Little Eagle Creek near Sadieville in early to mid-November from a branch of the national Love’s Travel Stop chain of truck stops.
Jack Donovan, director of the Georgetown/Scott County Emergency Management Agency, told Lexington Herald Leader…
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Synata Bio, a newly formed Illinois energy company, has won the auction to purchase Abengoa Bioenergy’s Kansas cellulosic ethanol plant for $48.5 million (€45.5m).
With its final offer, Synata outbid Shell Oil Company’s $40.8 million offer by nearly $8 million, according to court documents.
Synata now owns cellulosic ethanol technology formerly owned by Coskata, which was…
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Global Bioenergies, a French renewable fuels firm, has completed the construction of its Leuna demo plant in eastern Germany that converts renewable resources into high-purity isobutene for use in a number of industries, including the fuel sector.
The plant will be switched on over the coming weeks after it secures a certificate from German authority TUeV, Rick Bockrath, Global Bioenergies’…
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Sweetwater Energy, a New York-based renewable biochemical producer, announced that it has signed a conditional lease with Eastman Business Park to locate a green integrated biochemical facility in the park.
The $53-million facility will use local timber to produce high-value industrial biochemicals and clean-fibre products.
The lease is contingent upon the Finger Lakes Regional Economic…
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Indian state-run fuel retailers Indian Oil Corp. (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp. (BPC), and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (HPC) will set up around seven second-generation (2G) ethanol plants across the country.
The plants will be set up at a cost of Rs40 billion (€552.7m) and will help enhance ethanol availability for blending with petrol, according to online newspaper Live Mint.
2G…
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The Finnish government is exploring the implementation of a €100 million subsidy package for 2017-2020 to speed up the uptake of biogas- and electricity-powered cars.
With the subsidy, the government aims to have 250,000 electric and 50,000 biogas cars on Finland’s road by 2030, which would mark a massive increase from the current 2,250 fully electric or hybrid cars.
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The European Commission’s (EC) leaked draft proposal to continue supporting first-generation biofuels until 2030 will increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from European transport over the period 2021-2030 by an amount equivalent to the emissions from the Netherlands in 2014, according to environmental campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E).
These are extra emissions from…
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