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Today in Biofuels Opinion: “If you fill up your car or tractor with a blend containing a percentage of biofuel, then that percentage is helping an Australian farming community somewhere.”

2007 Nuffield Scholar Ronald Thompson, in Farm Online Australia: “A problem with this country in general is that we haven’t been prepared to take alternative energy on board. Brazil went down this path in the seventies, when it decided to get away from oil dependence and created an agricultural economy around biofuels. If you fill [...]

January 22, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Suncor Energy delays $120 million expansion of Candian corn ethanol plant

In Canada, Suncor Energy announced that it has delayed a planned $120 million expansion of its 53 Mgy corn ethanol plant in Sarnia, Ontario. The company said that the delay would last for at least one year, and would push back completion of the expansion until 2010 at the earliest. The expansion would increase capacity [...]

January 15, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0