D1 Oils chief leaves with broadside

Karl Watkin, the founder of biofuels pioneer, D1 Oils, today announced his departure from the company with a verbal broadside against governments, campaign groups and even the London Stock Exchange.

All had played their part, he claimed, in unfairly damaging the financial value and progress of a firm which had been feted by Bill Clinton and other world leaders for its success with turning the Jatropha plant into a sustainable transport fuel.

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 companies such as BP which had recently formed a partnership with it.

Guardian