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Biodiesel newsAlternative Energy: CIS Countries News Review May 2007 - Part 1 of 3A biodiesel plant will be built in Russia's Penza region, 550 km southeast of Moscow. The plant will process rapeseed and will have an annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes of biodiesel. 4 June 2007 Biofuels boom raises rapeseed appeal in Argentina.Yellow fields of flowering rapeseed are a rare sight in Argentina, but strong global demand for biofuels is tempting more farmers to experiment with the oilseed, especially as an alternative to wheat. 1 June 2007 Green Star Algae Biodiesel Interest Expands GloballyGreen Star Products, Inc. (OTC: GSPI) (OTC: GSPI.PK), announced today that it has received serious interest in producing biodiesel from algae globally. Over the past few weeks, companies from over 20 countries on five continents have expressed their interest in GSPI's biodiesel and microalgae technology. 29 May 2007 Belarusian-British biodiesel plant to be started in Mazyr districtMinsk, 7 May. A Belarusian-British biodiesel plant is to be set up in the Mazyr district, Homyel region. According to Iryna Kasinskaya, head of the economy department of the Mazyr District Executive Committee, the plant, which will be based on the Prypyats enterprise, the only rape processor in the Homyel region. 27 May 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 Ukraine Agricultural policy: The biodiesel programUkrainian Parliament was recommended to vote in the draft law "About development of manufacture and consumption of biofuels". The draft adjusts legal conditions for production and consumption of biofuels in Ukraine, proposes changes of taxation and granting privileges for development of biofuel industry. In particular, the draft law proposes to change the State Budget for 2008, providing 50% subsidizing of the credit rates for investment projects in the biofuel industry. 27 May 2007 MTE-11231 Builds Biodiesel Plant In DnipropetrovskUkrainian News learned this MTE-11231 board chairman Oleksandr Reznik. "I've solved the most important task - this fuel will be used by our vehicle fleet. This plant, first of all, will save fuel, and secondly, will guarantee stable price when the fuel market will be shaking with fever during the season," he said. 27 May 2007 Russia's Lukoil to start biodiesel fuel production in BulgariaLukoil (Russia) is constructing a production line for biodiesel fuel (BDF) production from vegetable raw material at the Burgas refinery (Bulgaria). 27 May 2007 UPDATE 1-Black Sea states to boost rapeseed crop in '07KIEV, April 19 (Reuters) - Black Sea states are likely to boost their rapeseed harvest to up to 3.2 million tonnes in 2007 from about 1.8 million in 2006 due to a jump in local and export demand, analysts said on Thursday. Serhiy Feofilov, head of Ukraine's leading UkrAgroConsult consultancy, told an international grain conference that regional states -- Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria -- could further increase their rapeseed harvest to more than 5.0 million tonnes by 2010. 19 April 2007 Russian Parliament Proposes Diluting Petrol with AlcoholMOSCOW. The upper house of Russian parliament drafted a bill jointly with the Agriculture Ministry on developing bioenergy in Russia. Under it, excise tax on ethanol fuel should be cut to prod oil refiners to using ethyl alcohol as an additive to conventional fuel. 18 April 2007 DJ USDA Attache: Lithuania Seen Increasing Biofuels ProductionLithuania began producing biofuel in 2004 in two plants, Rapsoila located near Mazeikiai and Biofuture in Silute ( www.biofuture.lt/en ). In 2006 Lithuania produced 25,000 MT of biofuel, 10,000 of biodiesel and 15,000 of ethanol. (In contrast, 1.2 million MT of conventional fuel was consumed in Lithuania in 2006.) Domestic agricultural production supplies all the raw material for the two biofuel production plants. Rapeseed is used for biodiesel production and wheat, rye and a wheat/rye blend is used for ethanol production. 10 April 2007 
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