Great Plains CEO Sam Huttenbauer: “The Camelina Company has increased its contracted acreage by more than 200 percent versus 2008. The expected yield from this acreage provides commercial scale for what has been described by a major aviation manufacturer as one of the most promising sources for renewable fuel. This growth reinforces Camelina as the most viable next generation biofuel feedstock – and it’s here now.”
Rob Vierhout, general-secretary of the European Bioethanol Fuel Association: “I believe the impact of the food-fuel debate was bigger on our industry than the [financial] crisis right now.”
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