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Biodiesel newsLower crop, biodiesel boost Black Sea sunoil pricesSunflower oil prices in Ukraine and Russia are set to rise sharply due to high demand from global biodiesel producers and a forecast reduction in the sunseed harvest next year, industry analysts said on Wednesday. 5 September 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 Bultera To Put 7.0 Mln Euro in Four Plants in BulgariaBultera will build polystyrene, simprolit, biodiesel and rapeseed oil plants on a 20 hectare plot it bought in 2006 for 1.0 mln Bulgarian levs ($697,000/510,000 euro). 31 August 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 United Russia offers to develop biofuel program.Chairman of the Russian State Duma Boris Gryzlov has come out with a proposal to develop a national program in the sphere of biofuel, the press service of the United Russia party reported on Saturday. 25 August 2007 INTERVIEW-German biodiesel firms cut output on tax burdenGermany's once-booming biodiesel industry is only producing at about 40 percent of capacity with biofuels taxes massively cutting sales, the head of renewable fuels industry association BBK said on Tuesday. 21 August 2007 The business of green - Bioverda targets inedible crop for fuelIrish biofueld company Bioverda may begin producing biodiesel in Ireland from an inedible crop called japtropha, which grows in Africa and India, in an attempt to shield itself from potential food crop price increases. 19 August 2007 German rapeseed market quiet on biodiesel worryA continued sharp fall in German biodiesel sales coupled with low profit margins among vegetable oil mills continues to reduce business in the country's physical rapeseed market, traders said on Thursday. 16 August 2007 UK: Subsidised US product is holding back European biodiesel industryDevelopment of a biodiesel supply industry in Europe is being hampered by «unfair» competition from producers in the US. 16 August 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 New BP and DI Oils biofuels venture.BP and D1 Oils are to form a 50:50 joint venture, to be called D1-BP Fuel Crops, to accelerate the planting of Jatropha curcas — a drought resistant, inedible oilseed bearing tree that does not compete with food crops for good agricultural land or adversely impact the rainforest — in order to make more sustainable biodiesel feedstock available on a larger scale. Under the terms of the agreement, BP and D1 Oils intend to invest around $160mn over the next five years. 15 August 2007 Êîììåíòàðèè: 1 Asia-Pacific's role in biofuels market.With an almost insatiable demand for biodiesel in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia, the countries of south-east Asia are ideally situated and provisioned to meet that need, writes Brian Warshaw. Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines produce the majority of the world's crude palm oil (CPO), with Malaysia and Indonesia alone providing 84% of the total. 15 August 2007 Biofuel plan back on trackMotorists could soon be buying diesel made from vegetable oil thrown away by pubs and takeaways. Leicester environmental charity Groundwork is hoping it will soon be able to push ahead with its plan to collect waste oil from restaurants and hotels and turn it into biodiesel. 14 August 2007 
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