Cooperation Agreements for Brazil and Canada
BRAZIL - Brazil's Minister of Science and Technology (MCT), Sergio Rezende, and Canada’s Minister of International Commerce, Stockwel Day, have signed in São Paulo a technical cooperation...

Consumers Energy Wind Farm Plan
US - Consumers Energy has secured more than 28,000 acres of easements in Tuscola and Mason counties for potential wind generation development and is starting the process of testing...

Biofuel Subsidies in China
CHINA - A new report finds that China provided a total of RMB 780 million (US$ 115 million, roughly US$ 0.40 per litre) in biofuel subsidies in 2006. Total support is expected to reach...

EPA Applauded for Biodiesel Rule in 2009
US - The National Biodiesel Board today praised the Environmental Protection Agency for reminding the petroleum industry it must include a total of 500 million gallons of biomass-based...

Sugarcane Expansion to be Restricted
BRAZIL - New agricultural zoning of Brazil inhibits the cultivation in sensitive ecosystems and areas for food farming. 'Biofuels should not compete with food,' said minister Dilma...

Call for Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies
US - On the 30th anniversary of the U.S. government’s ethanol subsidies, AMI and dozens of organizations representing the livestock sector, government watchdog groups, environmental...

$4 Million Grant for Ethanol Plant in Northern Illinois
CHICAGO – Illinois River Energy, LLC has received a $4 million Renewable Fuels Development grant to help build a new $120 million-plus ethanol production facility in Northern Illin...

ATSE Calls for a Biofuels Institute
AUSTRALIA - In a major report on Biofuels, released in Melbourne, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) recommends that a national Biofuels Institute...

Benton County Plans For Future Wind Farms
US - Planners in Benton County Arkansas have called for regulations to control the construction of wind farms in the county.

Friends Fight Wind Farm Plans
US - A project by energy company, First Wind to build a wind farm in Lincoln, Maine, has come under fire from local residents.

Argentina Stimulates Ethanol Use in Fuel
ARGENTINA - The Argentine government will require gasoline to contain a 5% mix of ethanol starting from 2010.

Bill to Use Lands for Biofuel Crops Pushed
THE PHILIPPINES - Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap appealed to Congress for the immediate passage of the Land Use Act that would identify areas that will be planted with biofuel...

Rollout of Environmental Manual for Biodiesel Facilities
US - EPA Region 7 has developed a user-friendly manual that identifies environmental regulatory rules and requirements for the construction and operation of biodiesel production fa...

Norfolk Wind Farms Supergrid Planned
EU - Wind farms off the Norfolk and Suffolk coast could feed power into a new “supergrid” as part of an ambitious plan to protect Europe from severe energy shortages.

Kenya to Explore Alternative Sources of Fuel
KENYA - While the global energy crisis spells doom for Kenya , it has in the same vein heralded new opportunities as plans are now afoot to explore alternative sources of fuel.