Berita Arkib

04/01/2008 (Guardian Unlimited) - Using biofuels made from corn, sugar cane and soy could have a greater environmental impact than burning fossil fuels, according to experts. Although the fuels themselves emit fewer greenhouse gases, they all have higher costs in terms of biodiversity loss and destruction of farmland.

02/01/2008 (NST Online), Georgetown - Checks on the supply of cooking oil have begun following complaints of reduced supplies from wholesalers and retailers.

03/01/2008 (Euro2Day) - The prospect of crude oil staying above $100 a barrel is pushing the price of palm oil to record highs as the commodity is increasingly made into biodiesel, an often cheaper alternative to petroleum-based fuels.

04/01/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Biofuels made from world's dominant energy crops -- including corn, soy, and oil palm -- may have worse environment impacts than conventional fossil fuels, reports a study published in the journal Science.

04/01/2008 (Earth Times) - New York City's first biodiesel company, Tri-State Biodiesel, is proud to announce that beginning today it will be filling FreshDirect's delivery trucks with clean-burning biodiesel blended fuel. The biodiesel fuel, which is made primarily from waste cooking oil collected from New York City restaurants, will be phased in to FreshDirect's fuel supply over the course of the next 2 months. By February 08, FreshDirect's entire fleet will be biodiesel powered, making it the largest private trucking fleet in the city to go biodiesel.

02/01/2008 (ANTARA News), Jakarta - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said that Indonesia`s CPO exports in November 2007 dropped drastically by 61 percent compared to that in October 2007.

03/01/2008 (CheckBiotech) - In a Joint Venture MOU signing ceremony between Malaysia State Government of Perak & Earth Biofuel (Asia) Sdn Bhd, it was announced the intention to build a “First-in-the-World” 200 acres Biofuel Integrated Environmental Park in the State which will involve 900,000 carbon credit, a centralized treatment system for 4000 m3/hr industrial & biological waste water, methane gas recovery for 300,000 tonne/year landfill and R&D cum Training Centre generating about 30,000 jobs related to the Project.

02/01/2008 (Reuters), Hamburg - India is set to increase vegetable oils imports in coming months, especially of palm oil as its domestic oilseed production cannot cope with rising demand, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World forecast.

02/01/2008 (Mongabay.com) - Organutans could serve as a symbol to unite conservationists against damaging palm-oil production. In a letter published today in Nature, Oscar Venter, Erik Meijaard and Kerrie Wilson argue that proposals for conservation groups to purchase and run oil palm plantations for the purpose of generating funds for forest protection are unlikely to be successful. The concept was originally put forth by Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove in a 2007 Nature article.

01/01/2008 (AllAfrican.com) - African producers of almost all agricultural commodities can expect strong prices on global markets next year, with growing investor interest boosting demand-related increases.

01/01/2008 (Reuters), Mumbai - India left tariff values unchanged for six palm group oils and crude soybean oil, a Central Board of Excise and Customs notification said on Tuesday.

02/01/2008 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) - Consumers in lower and middle income brackets have been hit hard by the skyrocketing prices of oil and rice over the last week with traders fearing further jumps due to price hikes on the global market.