D1 Oils chief leaves with broadside
Guardian – UK
Around quarter of a million jobs had been created in the developing world by the D1 strategy of growing Jatropha whose importance had been recognised by …
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China Agro-Tech inks MOU for Guangxi biofuels plant
Reuters – USA
China Agro-Technology said last month it had aquired the land use rights for 494200 acres in Indonesia to plant jatropha. In an interview on Monday, …
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5-page Lozada ‘study’ priced at P500 million
Manila Times – Philippines
At the Senate hearing, Lozada had lashed at the rejection of his proposal for the P500-million jatropha project while the government was entertaining …
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D1 Oils says founder Karl Watkin quits as director UPDATE
Hemscott – London,UK
I am particularly disheartened by the plethora of so-called experts on climate change who fail to distinguish between jatropha and other non-sustainable …
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Amelot Holdings Announces Projected Revenues of 7 Million Dollars …
Primenewswire (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
The company expects to collect enough indigenous Jatropha seed to produce a minimum of one million gallons of Jatropha oil in 2008. …
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Biofuels not cause of crops price hike – Velasco
Philippine Information Agency – Philippines
As for jatropha as a biodiesel feedstock, we do not compete for land use with producers of rice, corn, fruits, vegetables and livestock. …
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Biofuel crop may not justify hopes
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Sir, Elliott Mannis (Letters, March 3) argues in favour of the jatropha plant for biodiesel production on the grounds that it “can use marginal and poor …
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India finds cheap energy may be an easy nut to crack
Financial Times – London,England,UK
… official vehicles, including the chief minister’s Tata Safari jeep, are run on oil from the wrinkled black nut of a shrub-like tree called jatropha. …
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US Biofuel Dumping
By Pete Smith
D1 Oils has teamed up with UK oil giant BP PLC for a $160 million biodiesel project that uses jatropha, an inedible oilseed bearing tree, as a feedstock. The joint venture, called D1-BP Fuel Crops Ltd, intends to plant 1 mln hectares of …
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