Fuelling the biofuels debate

Thank goodness for a free and fearless press. Today’s (1st April) Guardian, a national newspaper in the UK, has uncovered the transatlantic splash and dash trade (Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam). The paper considers the story so important that it also gets a piece in the leader/op ed column (An unsustainable scam). Well done The Guardian…or could this be the very same story which Biofuel Review first reported in July last year when the EBB initially raised concerns about the practice (EBB calls for greater support for biodiesel in the EU) or later when the EBB first asked the European Commission to do something about the trade in October (US producers accused of dumping subisdised biodiesel on Europe)?

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Biofuels for civil aviation is currently receiving substantial mileage in the general media. There was a distinct feeding frenzy, in the non specialist media, when Richard Branson’s Virgin group flew a 747 between London and Amsterdam, last month, using biofuels in one of its four tanks. (see Biofuel Review story)

The move was swiftly followed by last week’s announcement by US carrier Continental, that it too was going to conduct a biofuel test early next year, and this week The National Business Review in New Zealand unveiled that Air New Zealand was looking at an algae based fuel to test.

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