Petra Group announces West Indian jatropha project at Clinton Global Initiative meeting

The Petra group announced plans at the Clinton Global Initiative meetings for a $136 million jatropha plantation and biodiesel refinery in the West Indies.

Also at the Clinton meeting, primate scientist Jane Goodall said that crops growing for biofuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming. “We’re cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more important to save now,” Goodall said.

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