Berita Arkib

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 (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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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).

07/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - The country’s biotechnology industry could take advantage of the global concern over food and energy security by focusing on developing new and economically viable renewable fuel from palm oil.

06/10/2008 (Financial Times) - An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase palm oil yield by several hundred per cent.

06/10/2008 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil importers in India, the biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, are seeking to renegotiate contracts after prices plunged to the lowest in almost two years, a processors' group said.

06/10/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's biotech industry which is currently valued at RM1.3 billion is expected to grow 22 percent annually, driven largely by the development of oil palm, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday.

05/10/2008 (Mongabay) - Indigenous forest dwellers in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have rejected a proposal to turn 80,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of the land into an oil palm plantation, reports the Malaysian Star.