Archived News

03/03/2010 (The New York Times) - Children love airplanes! It probably seemed like a perfectly good idea to an air traffic controller at Kennedy International Airport to bring his children to work last month — heck, this country has a whole day set aside for that sort of thing.

01/03/2010 (Bloomberg) - Wilmar International Ltd., the world’s biggest palm-oil trader, aims to expand its India business to about half of China in 10 years as rising incomes lift demand for processed foods in the South Asian nation.

01/03/2010 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - India, the world\'s top vegetable oil buyer, may shift orders to soyoil from palm oil by 500,000 tonnes to meet higher middle-class demand if the price difference narrows further, the Sunvin group said on Monday.

01/03/2010 (Mail Online) - \'Environmentally-friendly\' biofuels have been found to be more harmful to the planet than normal fossil fuel.

01/03/2010 (BBC News) - Panorama last week reported on the disturbing destruction of orangutan habitats in Indonesia for palm oil plantations. But are there benefits from these plantations for local people?

01/03/2010 (Times Online) - The expansion of plantations has pushed the orang-utan to the brink of extinction in Sumatra, where it takes 840 years for a palm oil plantation to soak up the carbon emitted when rainforest is burnt.

28/02/2010 (Times Online, UK) - PALM OIL greases the wheels of modern life. It’s in your margarine, your chocolate bar, your washing powder, maybe your car.

27/02/2010 (Business Week, East Africa) - Bidco Uganda Ltd (BUL) will soon start commercial production of palm oil following the completion of its US$10 million oil processing mill on the Lake Victoria island of Bugala in Kalangala district.

26/02/2010 (Ghana Web), Kade - The Kade District Magistrate's court has remanded in prison custody Yaw Ebenezer, unemployed, charged with stealing 10 gallons of palm oil with three others who are at large. Ebenezer pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to steal, unlawful entry and stealing the palm oil.

26/02/2010 (Upside Down World) - Johnny Rivas is a vocal member of the Unified Movement of Aguan Farmers (MUCA), an organization that claims over 3,500 families demanding the redistribution of land in the North Coast of Honduras. For over five years Rivas has fought for land rights in Aguan, known as the ‘capital of agrarian reform.’ MUCA formed in 2001 in order to reclaim lands that Rivas says "were transferred to corrupt businessmen under fraudulent terms." Rivas has recently been a target of constant death threats for his participation in the movement.

26/02/2010 (New Energy Focus) - An application for a £70 million biomass plant in Avonmouth, which would burn up to 90,000 tonnes of vegetable oil per annum, was rejected by Bristol city council's planning committee on Wednesday (February 24) after it received 1,119 objections to the proposal.

25/02/2010 (Financial Times) - New Britain Palm Oil is to acquire 80 per cent of CTP, another producer with three plantations in Papua New Guinea, for $175m in cash.