Experiment With Biofuel Production in Senegal Raises Concerns

A Senegalese experiment with biofuel production will start within the coming weeks, as part of President Wade’s plan to reduce oil imports and to revive the rural economy. Where biofuel supporters see a green solution to their growing energy crisis, critics worry about the problematic – and possibly dangerous – tradeoffs in the rush to exploit environmental cash crops.

The environmental group Global Forest Coalition calls biofuels a disaster in the making.
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