Collaboration Advances Energy Research
TEXAS & AMES - The first year of ConocoPhillips’ eight-year, $22.5 million research program at Iowa State University (ISU) has supported 26 research projects and helped establish new...

Biofuels Moratorium not the Solution to Climate Change
UK - The British National Farmers' Union has again rejected calls from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, which has repeated its stance on a moratorium on the Government’s...

Waikato Piggery, Biogas Plans May go to Appeal
NEW ZEALAND - A Waikato pig farmer is considering an appeal against a decision to reject expansion plans that would take his business 1,100 to 22,000 pigs.

BIOGAS NORD to Consolidate
GERMANY - German bioenergy company BIOGAS NORD AG is to start a programme of cost cutting and consolidation after its 2007 results failed to hit their targets.

Wärtsilä Makes Use of Jatropha Oil
HELSINKI - Wärtsilä has secured an order for an engine-driven combined heat and power (CHP) plant that will run on the liquid biofuel, which is extracted from the seeds of the jatropha...

Indian Biogas Agency Earns Carbon Credit
KOCHI - According to The Hindu, Andhyodaya, a non-government agency working in the field of promoting water management and non-conventional energy and social development recently organised...

BioGas Nord Builds Up Business in Italy
ITALY - German bioenergy company BioGas Nord AG based in Bielefeld is expanding its overseas business and has entered into a long term partnership with Marcopolo, a company based in...

Agricultural Sector Can Accommodate Demand for Food and Bioenergy
GERMANY - Friedrich Wolf, managing director of E.ON Bioerdgas GmbH, is to call for greater investment to improve efficiency and technological innovation in the agricultural sector to...

NZ Farmers Generate Energy from Biogas
NEW ZEALAND - According to Radio New Zealand, with the increase in fuel and power prices, farmers are thinking up new ways of tapping into their own energy sources.

Hi-tech Monitoring Advances Methane Energy
US - Engineers at Washington University engineers have founds that vigorous mixing helps microorganisms turn farm waste into alternative energy.

Land - a Scarce Resource
DENMARK - This is a summary of a report published by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries which shows that Denmark can boost the production of bioenergy from biomass...

The British Model is the Key to Biofuels
UK - The NFU has taken the opportunity of national Biofuels Day to draw a clear distinction between biofuels produced sustainably to what it calls "The British Model" that yield genuine...

Uganda to Embark Upon Biogas Project
According to The New Vision, the Government of Uganda plans to launch a large-scale biogas initiative countrywide in order to reduce the use of firewood and charcoal for cooking and...

Farmers to Finance Modern Pig Farm
SELAYANG - According to The Star, the proposed RM100mil hi-tech pig farm in Selangor will be financed by the farmers themselves rather than by the state government.

Special report: Climate change and food prices
GLOBAL - Is the climate to blame for the deadly combination of soaring prices and decline in supply - two factors threatening food security?