Comments on: Biofuel plant plan is red rag to the green bulls http://www.bristol247.com/2009/10/07/biofuel-plant-plan-is-red-rag-to-the-green-bulls/ Bristol news, sport, opinion, information and digital marketing Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:00:26 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Glenn Vowles http://www.bristol247.com/2009/10/07/biofuel-plant-plan-is-red-rag-to-the-green-bulls/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Glenn Vowles Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:18:47 +0000 http://www.bristol247.com/?p=3579#comment-345 But Jorge have you not seen the concerns the United Nations have about industrial scale biofuels?? But Jorge have you not seen the concerns the United Nations have about industrial scale biofuels??

]]> By: Jorge Muyupampa http://www.bristol247.com/2009/10/07/biofuel-plant-plan-is-red-rag-to-the-green-bulls/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Jorge Muyupampa Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:44:46 +0000 http://www.bristol247.com/?p=3579#comment-340 The following paragraph from the story is innacurate. "But the environmental costs have coupled with global food price rises. A confidential World Bank report leaked last year stated that food prices have risen as much as 75%, as farmland is used to grow biofuel crops." World Bank does not produce "confidential" reports. The report was developed by a World Bank economist and never endorssed by the Bank. It has been rescinded and the author has lost all credibility because long after food prices have declined biofuel expansion has continued to increase. Additionally, there are bodies that can certifiy that Indoensian Palm Oil is being produced in a sustainable manner without deforestation, drying peetlands, or releasing greenhouse gasses. The information provided in this article appears to have been supplied by an environmental NGO with a specific agenda. While I don't know enough about the proposed Bristol plant to endorse it, I do know enough to say that the article was very biased in favor of the special interest environmentalists The following paragraph from the story is innacurate.

“But the environmental costs have coupled with global food price rises. A confidential World Bank report leaked last year stated that food prices have risen as much as 75%, as farmland is used to grow biofuel crops.”

World Bank does not produce “confidential” reports. The report was developed by a World Bank economist and never endorssed by the Bank. It has been rescinded and the author has lost all credibility because long after food prices have declined biofuel expansion has continued to increase.

Additionally, there are bodies that can certifiy that Indoensian Palm Oil is being produced in a sustainable manner without deforestation, drying peetlands, or releasing greenhouse gasses.

The information provided in this article appears to have been supplied by an environmental NGO with a specific agenda. While I don’t know enough about the proposed Bristol plant to endorse it, I do know enough to say that the article was very biased in favor of the special interest environmentalists

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