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Holland gets futuristic biofuel filling station |
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
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A futuristic filling station will be built along the A28 motorway between Hoogeveen and Beilen in the Netherlands. Motorists will be able to tank up their cars with biodiesel, PPO (or B100, pure plant oil), ethanol-based petrol (E10 and E85), natural gas, and biogas.
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Vopak Amsterdam plans biofuel shipping terminal |
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
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Koninklijke Vopak N.V. (Royal Vopak) announces plans to develop a second oil terminal in the Port of Amsterdam. Vopak and the Amsterdam Port Authority recently signed a letter of intent for the rental of a site in Westpoort, in the Afrikahaven Harbour. Earlier this week, Vopak also submitted an EIR (environmental impact report) memorandum to the Noord-Holland Provincial Council.
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Xethanol announces plans for 50m gallon ethanol plant in Augusta |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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The Xethanol Corporation (AMEX:XNL) has announced plans to construct a 50 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol plant on a site in Augusta, Georgia which would begin producing ethanol by mid-2007. The announcement came as the company confirmed that it has completed its due diligence process on its previously announced acquisition of a Pfizer pharmaceutical manufacturing complex in Augusta and will be closing on the complex within 30 days.
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Hawai`i BioEnergy set up to investigate development of renewable fuels industry |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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An international consortium including Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (AMEX:MLP) Grove Farm Company, and Kamehameha Schools today announced the formation of Hawai`i BioEnergy, LLC. The group will join forces to research the viability of renewable energy crops, products and services in the state of Hawai`i. In addition to the Hawai`i companies, consortium members include Vinod Khosla, a nationally recognized leader in renewable energy policy and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla has made substantial investments in private companies involved in ethanol research and development.
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CSR Sugar secures $5m Australian government grant |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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The Australian Federal Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, The Hon Ian Macfarlane, today announced that CSR Sugar will receive a federal government research grant, worth Aus$5 million, as part of a second wave of their Renewable Energy Development Initiative (REDI) funding program.
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Community Fuels Stockton, California |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Community Fuels, a startup biodiesel production company, plans to build its first plant at the Port of Stockton. The company expects to get into full production next year, employing 15 people at the facility producing up to 10 million gallons of biodiesel per year.
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Volkswagen, Shell & Lurgi want EU biofuel duties based on C02, not quotas |
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Government and Regulatory
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Volkswagen, the oil producer Shell and the plant engineering company
Lurgi are hoping to a see a boost in the promotion of 2nd generation
biofuels and their associated technology. At the Forum for Future
Energies in Berlin the companies put forward a fuel duty model based on
CO2 efficiency and sustainability criteria as an alternative to the planned quotas.
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Intrepid makes biogas from dairy manure |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Intrepid Technology and Resources inc. has announced that they have successfully processed biogas generated from dairy manure into commercial pipeline-quality natural gas.
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Malaysia opens 'palm oil cluster' |
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Friday, 21 July 2006 |
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Malaysia's Federal
Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has officially opened a 'Palm Oil Industrial Cluster' (POIC) in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia. POIC Sabah Sdn Bhd will be a government-linked company (GLC) wholly owned by the State Government
of Sabah, and its purpose will be the promotion of local and foreign investment from biodiesel manufacturing concerns and other 'down-stream' industries.
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