President Uribe thanks the trust of Japan in Colombia.Â

He manifested this way during a visit to the plant for the biodiesel production in Santa Marta (Magdalena), built by the Japanese company Odin. The Leader invited his directives to build a new plant in the country.Â

Santa Marta, Feb 3 (SP). As an example of trust in Colombia qualified President Álvaro Uribe Vélez to the construction and setting in march, on behalf of the Odin Company, of a crude palm oil processing plant for the biodiesel production in Santa Marta. Leer más »

SAO PAULO (AFP)-The Brazilian ethanol, derived from the sugarcane, will be the official fuel from 2009 of the Indy Formula, one of the most important motor racing of the world, according to an agreement signed on Monday in the framework of the International Conference on Biofuels.Â

The Understanding Memorandum was signed when being inaugurated the “Primera International Exhibition of the Biocombustibel”, parallel to the conference, between Alessandro Texeira, of the Brazilian Agency of Exports Promotion (Apex) and the president of the Indy Racing League, Terry Angstadt. Leer más »

As they informed from the brazilian government the reedbeds sowed to obtain ethanol, would not be dangerous. Agency APÂ

The expansion of the reedbeds in Brazil to satisfy the growing demand of ethanol in the world won’t damage the Amazonas rainforest, said on Monday a high employee of the government. Â

In declarations at the beginning of a five days international conference on biofuels, the government’s general secretary, Dilma Rousseff, said that the country will announce a plan of agricultural areas very soon to specify where the cane can be cultivated, both for sugar or energy generating. Leer más »

Experts assure that the impact in the country will be minimum, but they advise to be alert. Â

When the 40 entities that conform the Forum of the Agroindustrial Chain decided the agenda of their fifth annual forum-under the title “agriculture and atmosphere, a shared agenda for the sustainable development”-, the scenario on which the complex moved was far from being the desired one, but it was much better than the current one. Leer más »

Studies by the investigators Yong Gu (left) and John Vogel on the wild grass Brachypodium is revealing genetic information that could be useful in investigations of the grass Panicum virgatum as raw material for the biofuel.Â

A small and short herb called Brachypodium distachyon (also known as chirate or wall grass) could accelerate the discoveries on the grass Panicum virgatum, its famous cousin that has much potential as a raw material for biofuels. Leer más »

BIOFUELS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BUENOS AIRES.Â

Specialists of the renewable energy sector analyzed here the future of a business in expansion.  Â

During last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was carried out in Buenos Aires, for the second year in a row, an important conference, organized by the British firm Green Power Conferences, that had as strategic partners to the Argentine Chamber of Biofuels and to the Argentine Association of Biofuels and Hydrogen, and the support of the IICA, of the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services, the Secretary of Agriculture, the INTA, the INTI, Chancellery, the Exportar Foundation, the Agency of Investment Promotion, AAPRESID and ACSOJA, among other entities. Leer más »