Dean Schmidt, WesMin Resource Conservation and Development coordinator in Alexandria, works with landowners who are already growing or who are interested in growing hybrid poplars as an energy crop.

After the corn harvest, whether for cattle feed or corn on the cob, farmers usually leave the stalks and stems in the field, but now, a team of Penn State researchers thinks corn stover can be used not only to manufacture ethanol, but to generate electricity directly.

Globex, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GLXI) today announced the development of an innovative pre-treatment method for the production of bioethanol. This process is an integral part of the biomass conversion method to produce ethanol from cellulose. The company claims that this method ensures high product yields that enhance revenues and reduce treatment costs. A technical description of this method provided by one of Globex's resident PhDs appears below.

When MTBE was banned in California in 2003, low-level blends of ethanol entered the market. Now, California state air regulators are concerned about increases in evaporative and tailpipe emissions from low-level ethanol blended gasoline.

An international trade fair on sustainable mobility is being organised by Energy Valley, together with the Sustainable Mobility Platform, the Swedish Trade Council, Leeuwarden local authority, and the provinces of Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland, which will take place in Leeuwarden on 20-21 November 2006.

Wilmar International, a Singapore-based producer and refiner of palm oil and other oil seeds, has issued 300 million new shares in preparation of moving into the biodiesel refining business.

World cereal stocks are expected to decline sharply in 2006, due to a slight decrease in global cereal output and significant growth in utilization for animal feed and ethanol, according to the latest forecast of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will begin a two day tour of Scotland's energy industry with the Scottish National Party (SNP) today. Commissioner Piebalgs has been invited to Scotland by the SNP's European Spokesman Alyn Smith MEP and will spend two days with Mr Smith seeing Scotland's potential as the 'Clean Energy Capital of Europe'.