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A delicate balance for biodiesel mandate
Malaysia's palm oil stocks seen to drop further to 2.24mil tonnes in April
CPO Futures Close Slightly Higher, Tracking Gains In Soybean Oil Prices
Supply tightening boosts value for Malaysian palm oil
Greenpeace Slams Fonterra Over Alleged ‘Climate Crime’
08/12/2011 (DairyReporter.com) - NGO Greenpeace New Zealand (GPNZ) has attacked Fonterra’s continued use of controversial palm oil co-product, palm kernel expeller (PKE), as a supplementary dairy farm feed.
GE, Sinergi Ink Renewable Energy Pact
08/12/2011 (Business Times) - General Electric (GE) and Sinergi Perdana Sdn Bhd have signed an agreement to explore collaborative opportunities to develop renewable energy initiatives, with the primary aim of fostering efficient operations in the palm oil industry.
UK Government Climate Advisers Call for Biomass Push
08/12/2011 (The Guardian) - Britain will need a massive expansion of wood-burning stoves, wooden houses, wood-guzzling power stations and other similar technologies if greenhouse gas targets are to be met, the government's advisers on climate change have warned.
Morning Markets: Eurozone Hopes Prop up ag Commodity Prices
08/12/2011 (Agrimoney.com ) - The upside of Standard & Poor's threat on Monday to issue credit rating downgrades to a clutch of eurozone countries is that it will concentrate those nations' minds ahead of a key summit later this week.
VEGOILS-Palm Oil Drops on S&P\'s Possible Eeuro Zone Downgrade
07/12/2011 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures dropped on Tuesday as the euro zone debt crisis deepened with rating agency Standard & Poor's warning it may cut the credit ratings of the region that is threatening to slow the world's economic growth.
Feronia Inc. Completes Re-Planting of 2,000 Hectares of Oil Palm
07/12/2011 (MarketWatch) - Feronia Inc. ("Feronia" or the "Company") today announced that Feronia PHC, its oil palm plantations division, has completed the targeted 2011 re-planting programme of 2,000 hectares of oil palm.
Malaysia Open to Raising Renewable Energy Quotas
07/12/2011 (Business Times) - The government is open to raising quotas to generate renewable power (RE) if consumers are willing to pay another 1 per cent RE levy on top of the current 1 per cent in the electricity bills.
EU May Impose Higher Tariffs on RI Biofuel
07/12/2011 (Jakarta Post) - The government has vowed to closely monitor ongoing developments of potential market access restrictions to Indonesia’s palm-oil based biodiesel into the European Union (EU), following a plan to curb surging imports in recent years.
M\'sia Studying Best Method of Oil Palm Cultivation on Peat Land
07/12/2011 (The Star) - Malaysia is still studying the best method of cultivation of oil palm on peat land and the type that can be utilised, said Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.
