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		<title>British Airways to power planes with potato peels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The airline industry is taking its first steps towards green energy. British Airways has announced it is investing in a factory that will convert tonnes of household rubbish into enough jet fuel for all its flights from London City airport twice over. Some 500,000 tonnes of waste generated by Londoners will be used by the UK facility each year to produce 16 million gallons of fuel. Construction of the plant in east London will start within two years. It is set to produce fuel from 2014, creating up to 1,200 jobs. BA said the plant would produce twice the amount of fuel needed to power all its flights from London City Airport. It will be the first plant in Europe to produce jet fuel from waste matter. It is estimated that the overall equivalent CO2 reduction as a result of the plant producing sustainable energy and fuel is approximately 550,000 tonnes per year. The plant will be built by the US company Solena Group, with BA committing to buy all of its output. The waste wil be fed into a high temperature &#8220;gasifier&#8221; to produce BioSynGas. A chemical process called Fischer Tropsch is then used to convert the gas into biofuel. Waste products from the process can be used to power the plant as well as supply 20MW of electricity to the national grid. A solid waste product can be used as an aggregate in construction. BA argues the plant will cut the amount of waste that is sent to landfill, reducing the amount of methane that is produced. Methane is thought to be a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels destroy the rainforest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glenn333</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The increased demand for palm oil as a  &#8221;green&#8221; biofuel has a nasty side effect. It is leading to the destruction of endangered rainforests. This week hundreds of Borneo tribes men armed with blowpipes blockaded roads in the Malaysian state of Sarawak to protest against companies they accuse of destroying their rainforests to grow oil palms for “green” biofuel. The Penan tribe who live in the region have existed for centuries as nomadic hunter-gatherers living on fish, wild animals and plants but now the increased demand for palm oil is threatening their way of life. “This is a last resort,” said See Chee How, a lawyer fighting land rights cases for indigenous people. “There have been allegations of rape by loggers, the rivers are being polluted and the Penan fear for their food supplies.” Soaring demand for palm oil has pushed up the price by 45% this year, prompting companies to clear more rainforest and plant yet more palms. The latest expansion seems to have set off the blockades. Twelve villages had united to send their men, clad in traditional hats pierced with hornbill feathers and carrying blowpipes, onto the jungle roads to block the timber lorries. “These logging companies don’t clear the whole forest – they take the valuable trees and wreak a lot of destruction along the way,” said Miriam Ross, a British researcher for Survival International who has lived alongside the Penan. “When the plantations are established it’s just rows and rows of palm oil, it’s not a forest,” she explained. “There’s not even any space for them, so they [the tribesmen[ can see it is a real threat.” Stephen Corry, director of Survival, said the Malaysian government must recognise the land rights of local people and stop the companies operating without the tribe’s consent. The blockades raised the stakes in a conflict that has unfolded for three decades on Borneo, an island treasure house of rare wildlife and plants that is also a rich source of timber and minerals. It pits indigenous tribes, broadly known as Dayaks, against governments and companies seeking to exploit resources. Sarawak’s state government, which has been ruled by the same grandee, Abdul Taib Mah-mud, for 28 years, has presided over what environmental campaigners say is the systematic destruction of the rainforests. Members of Taib’s family control or hold shares in several of the companies that have reaped generous rewards from licences, concessions or contracts issued by the state. The Taib family has consistently denied any wrongdoing. However, threats and violence have beset resistance against companies granted licences by Taib’s government to exploit the rainforest. Two years ago the skull of Kelesau Naan, a troublesome village leader, washed up on a muddy riverbank. His disappearance remains unexplained. So does that of Bruno Manser, a Swiss campaigner, who vanished into the rainforest in May 2000. “I believe the police and the government will have to handle these new protests carefully,” said an activist in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak. “This time they know the [...]]]></description>
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