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Three projects to tackle swamps' overgrowth with vegetation

Three projects to tackle swamps' overgrowth with vegetation
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Minsk, 31 January. Three projects are to be implemented in Belarus for the purpose of preventing swamps' overgrowth with vegetation, Alyaksandr Kazulin, a senior researcher with the Scientific and Practical Center for Biological Resources, said at a news conference in Minsk on January 31. The projects envisage deliveries of special equipment from Europe for cutting shrubs, trees and reed on the surface of swamps. "The harvested biomass will be used as biofuel, as a renewable source of energy, pellets can be made out of it," he said.

According to Mr.Kazulin, "this is a fairly significant breakthrough for the implementation of a state program for the use of renewable energy sources and local fuels as, according to conservative estimates, such lands cover some 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) in Belarus." The researcher noted that the flood plains around the River Prypyats in southern Belarus had nearly fully overgrown with shrubs, increasing the risk of floods in spring. Swamplands occupy a total area of 2.1 million acres in Belarus.

 

Date:  31.01.2012


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The whole idea from the first place in Brazil was to get rid of expensive fsosil fuel usage.If it wasnt any profit, not a single gallon of ethanol would be sold for fuel use Brazil has recently reduced the amount of ethanol produced because of a shortage of sugar pushing up the cost to consumers. And the production of sugarcane in Brazil is very efficient because of the climate and low employee cost. In the US ethanol production is only profitable because of the government subsidies. And in a world where people are starving, burning food for fuel is criminal. You think that they throw money in the sea in Brazil…?The whole idea from the first place in Brazil was to get rid of expensive fsosil fuel usage. The ethanol program was started in Brazil when Brazil was a large importer of oil. Brazil now is a major exporter of oil, so ethanol is not as important. Brazil's government has committed hundreds of billions of dollars to the development of it's off shore deep water oil deposits. If oil was not so important to Brazil, that money could be put to use on many of Brazil's other problems.

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