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The rain forest covers more than a billion acres across Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Columbia, and Venezuela, producing more than 20% of world's oxygen and containing more than 1/5th of the world's freshwater in its basin
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Topics : Biodiversity
Viridas drives ahead with jatropha biodiesel in Brazil
Viridas, the Alternative Investment Market-listed company, is moving forward with plans to establish a "base plantation" in Brazil as it looks to develop its strategy of producing biofuels. The Leeds-based company is to use the South American location as a central area to grow jatropha trees which it hopes will form the next generation of alternative fuel stock.
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Topics : Bioenergy
Maple Energy investment in Peru sugarcane ethanol plant for $222 mn
In Peru, Maple Energy announced that it would increase investment in its Peru sugarcane ethanol plant to $222 million, to allow for increased cane processing and steam generation equipment. The project is on track to be completed in 2009 and will process 1.7 million tonnes of cane annually. - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy
Brazil sugar producers say bagasse could supply up to 15 % of Brazilian electric needs
In Brazil, the president of the sugar producers industry association, UNICA, said that bagasse could supply up 11.5 terawatts, or up to 15 percent of Brazil's electricity by 2015. - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy