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Fueling forest for food

  By iip | October 17, 2011 - 3:26 pm | Forest
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Debating biofuel as promising commodity has been months. Some scientits argued that biofuel is not eco-friendly as alternative fuel. Inline with this, recent news of BBC talks about doubt of leaders on biofuel development.

The leaders are Bolivian President Evo Morales and President Alan Garcia of Peru. They warned biofuel development could harmed poor people. In the other hand, UK Prime Minister said that “UK should be more selective in our support for biofuel”

Biofuel development threats forest in tropical area, such Indonesia. Studies link oil palm plantation expansion with deforestation. In fact, it happened in Sumatra and Kalimantan mineral soil, as well as the peat soil. However, producing biodiesel from unsustainable oil palm plantation is unfavorable. (more…)

Biodiesel business outlook

  By iip | July 17, 2011 - 4:10 pm | Business
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If you’re interested to start business on biofuel or biodiesel, then you may read the new outlook of world biodiesel market 2011.

I suggest to read the business outlook carefully as read the recent relevant research publication as well.

The report titled titled Biodiesel World Market Outlook 2011 predicts technological developments could see biodiesel generate up to $70 billion in the coming years. This number is amazing and maybe it’s time to digg more how the biodiesel business work on your country.

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