Belgium, Ukraine advance on biodiesel

In Europe, the Belgian government announced a B4 biodiesel mandate will commence in July, and said that higher mandates would be implemented after infrastructure issues had been resolved.  Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers said that it would commence a push to develop algal biofuels by 2010, as part of an R&D ramp-up on biodiesel.

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