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05.12.08
President Bush Threatens Farm Bill Veto
US President George W. Bush says he will veto the five-year, $300 billion farm b...
05.09.08
India Bans Futures Trading of Four Commodities
Late yesterday, commodity markets regulator, Forward Market Commission, banned I...
05.08.08
Germany to Sign Biofuel Pact With Brazil
Germany’s Environment Minister returned from a visit to Brazil saying his countr...
05.07.08
2007 Renewable Energy Investments Reach $100 Billion
High oil prices and an array of government incentives are leading to soaring rat...
05.06.08
Biodiesel Extracted From Wild Sesame Tree
Vietnamese scientists have managed to extract biodiesel from the seeds of wild s...
05.05.08
Firm Invests $500 Million in Green Technology
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has raised $500 million ...
05.02.08
$2.2 Billion Canadian Biofuel Bill Expected to Pass
Canada's $2.2 billion biofuel package now before the House of Commons is expecte...
05.01.08
President Bush Reiterates Support For Biofuels
During a Rose Garden news conference on the economy, US President George W. Bush...
04.30.08
Tyson Foods Urges End To US Ethanol Traiffs
Dick Bond, President and Chief Executive of Tyson Foods said that Congress shoul...
04.29.08
Merrill Lynch Sees Biofuels Growth
In a new report on biofuels, Merrill Lynch is upbeat, saying biofuels are set to...
UK Investors Back Mozambique Sugar Plantation
12.11.07
London-based Principle Capital has raised $70 million from a group of hedge funds to seed a 56,800-acre Mozambique sugar plantation that it hopes will become Africa's biggest ethanol feedstock exporter.
Principle Energy, the new company running the site, recently began clearing land for the first phase of the project, which will eventually cost $290 million. The project is backed by hedge funds including Tudor, RAB Capital and GLG Partners as well as Société Générale, and the French bank, Brian Myerson.
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