Berita Arkib
13-10-2008
Palm oil clearing swathes of forest in Indonesia\'s Papua: Greenpeace
11/10/2008 (AFP), Jakarta — Palm oil companies are clearing massive swathes of untouched forest in Indonesia's remote easternmost Papua region, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday.
13-10-2008
Governments failing to clamp down on Malaysian biofuel
11/10/2008 (Business Green) - Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth (FOE) has hit out at the failure of governments in the UK and Malaysia to adequately police the production of palm oil which it claims is leading to deforestation and contributing to climate change.
09-10-2008
Indonesia\'s \'09 palm biodiesel use seen at 1-1.2m T
08/10/2008 (Alibaba.com), Jakarta - Indonesia may consume 1 million to 1.2 million tonnes of biodiesel using palm oil as feed stock in 2009, following the introduction of a mandatory biofuel policy, a government official said on Wednesday.
09-10-2008
Action against 10-year old imported palm oil
08/10/2008 (The Post), Kaeachi - For the first time Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has come out with the claim that under PSQCA Act 1996, the RBD Palm/Edible Oil is mandatory item to confine with PS Standard No-1561.
09-10-2008
PSQCA takes notice of old palm oil issue
08/10/2008 (Pakistan Observer), Karachi — For the first time Pakistan Standard and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) has come out with the claim that under PSQCA Act 1996, the RBD Palm/Edible Oil is mandatory item to confine with PS Standard No.1561.
09-10-2008
Petrol stations are pumping out bad biofuels
08/10/2008 (Greenpeace) - We knew the government's plans on biofuels were a bit of a mess, but figures released today by the Renewable Fuel Agency show just how bad the situation is.
09-10-2008
Indonesia biofuel policy to reduce palm oil exports
09/10/2008 (Business Standard) - Exports of palm oil from Indonesia, the largest producer, may decline by as much as 1.5 million metric tonnes a year after the nation made the use of renewable energy mandatory, a government official said.
09-10-2008
Native people reject palm-oil offer
08/10/2008 (New Scientist) - Clearing tropical forests to plant oil palms is lucrative for oil-producers, but is ecologically disastrous. Space for about half of 5 million hectares of oil palm planted in Malaysia and Indonesia between 1990 and 2005 came at the expense of tropical forest, much of it pristine.
09-10-2008
India can\'t use own biodiesel
08/10/2008 (Cleanteach) - Hyderabad-based Naturol Bioenergy has been shipping biodiesel to the EU and the United States since June because India can't blend the alternative fuel into gasoline and diesel yet.
09-10-2008
Indonesia Papua forests seen under palm oil threat
08/10/2008 (Reuters), Jakarta - Indonesia must do more to save pristine rainforests in Papua from destruction, particularly with plans to open up huge tracts of land to develop palm oil plantations, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
09-10-2008
Palm oil firm becomes first to win eco-certification
28/09/2008 (Mongabay.com) - United Plantations, a Malaysia-based palm oil producer, has become the first oil palm plantation firm to be certified for adopting the strictest standards of sustainability for palm oil production, according to Bernama.
08-10-2008
Palm oil industry relies on greenwashing to mislead consumers, alleges report
08/10/2008 (Mongabay.com) - The Malaysian palm oil industry is relying on marketing tactics that mislead the public about its environmental performance rather than taking effective steps to become "greener" alleges a new report from the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE).