Eight biodiesel producers band together to form Netherlands Biodiesel Industry Association

In the Netherlands, eight biodiesel producers have banded together to form the Netherlands Biodiesel Industry Association (VNBI), and have set a goal of producing 410 Mgy of biodiesel by 2009. The VNBI will lobby government and build alliances with other industries and environmental groups.

Earlier this month, Nedalco launched a new process for fermenting sugar, a yeast extracted from elephant dung, and received a $16 million grant from the Dutch government, but the project developers say that the grant, which represents less than 10 percent of the project cost, is not enough and is symbolic of the EU’s lack of aggression in developing biofuels.

The crown prince of the Netherlands has been an active global campaigner against biofuels, recently claiming at a global water supply conference that the amount of biofuel in an SUV tank uses as much water as it takes to produce enough grain to support one person for a year.

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