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A delicate balance for biodiesel mandate
Can palm biodiesel provide quick relief for Malaysia amid Iran war?
Malaysia plans phased expansion of biodiesel programme, minister says
CPO Futures Close Slightly Higher, Tracking Gains In Soybean Oil Prices
Feature: Ghana\'s oil must benefit education and agriculture.
30/01/2011 (My Joy Online) - â€Oil is money and we need money to do the schools, the roads, the hospitals. Even without oil, we are doing so well already. Now, with oil as a shot in the arm, we are going to fly.â€- Former President J.A. Kufuor.
Malaysia leads way in environmental study of deforestation
30/01/2011 (Malaysia Sun) - As Malaysia prepares to convert around 7,000 hectares of forest into an oil-palm plantation, ecologists are starting one of the biggest environmental projects ever run.
Focus on hard assets; energy may remain volatile with upwards bias in near term
31/01/2011 (Daily News & Analysis) - The markets witnessed a lower turnover week (higher if the pro-rata adjustment for a holiday is made) as the traders displayed a return bias towards safe haven buying in bullion.
Scientists to document impact of converting rainforest into oil palm plantations
30/01/2011 (Mongabay.com) - Scientists have partnered with one of the world's largest palm oil producers to measure the impact of converting tropical forest into an oil palm plantation, reports Nature News.
Imports far short of needs
29/01/2011 (Bangkok Post) - The Commerce Ministry will seek cabinet permission to import another 100,000 tonnes of crude palm olien to further ease the domestic shortage.
Malaysian Has Good Track Record In Sustainable Development
29/01/2011 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia has a good track record where it comes to sustainable development compared to other countries, despite negative perceptions of certain global quarters when it came to the country's palm oil activity practices.
Biofuel and gold producers named and shamed
28/01/2011 (Swiss Info.ch) - Finnish biofuel specialist Neste Oil and the AngloGold/Ashanti mining company have been given Public Eye Awards in Davos for social and ecological irresponsibility.
Imported RBD palm oil to be sold in market next week
28/01/2011 (Mcot), Bangkok - Thirty-thousand tonnes of RBD refined palm oil (refined, bleached and deodorised) which the government ordered earlier were imported from Malaysia to be sold in the Thai market next week, according to the director-general of the Internal Trade Department.
Greening the world with palm oil?
26/01/2011 (Mongabay.com) - The commercial shows a typical office setting. A worker sits drearily at a desk, shredding papers and watching minutes tick by on the clock. When his break comes, he takes out a Nestle KitKat bar. As he tears into the package, the viewer, but not the office worker, notices something is amiss—what should be chocolate has been replaced by the dark hairy finger of an orangutan. With the jarring crunch of teeth breaking through bone, the worker bites into the “bar." Drops of blood fall on the keyboard and run down his face. His officemates stare, horrified. The advertisement cuts to a solitary tree standing amid a deforested landscape. A chainsaw whines. The message: Palm oil—an ingredient in many Nestle products—is killing orangutans by destroying their habitat, the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
