”Halt needed on number of biofuel plants”

Governments should introduce a halt on the number of biofuel processing plants until they are certain of how many are being built and are in control of the sector’s growth, according to environmentalist Lester Brown from the ‘US Earth Policy’ Institute.

Speaking in Brussels, Brown said he was concerned about the competition that will arise around the world between food and feed if governments continue to push biofuels as an alternative to petrol and diesel. The Chinese government said in January that it had suspended the approval of new ethanol projects that use maize as a feedstock to limit the industrial consumption of the grain and avoid jeopardising food production. The move came after US maize prices raised 15-20% in a couple of weeks.
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