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Biofuel boom profiting corporations, not locals

Source : afp.google.com

The boom in biofuel production in Latin America, particularly Brazil, is benefiting corporations but not local people, a network of environmental activist groups said in a report released Wednesday. Friends of the Earth International made its study, "Fuelling Destruction in Latin America", public one day before a vote in the European parliament on plans to increase biofuel use in the European Union. Critics of ethanol made from crops contend that it is harmful to the environment and diverting land-use from food production at a time of record food prices. The United States is the biggest producer of biofuel, which it makes from corn. Brazil is the second-biggest producer, generating ethanol from processed sugarcane, and it is the biggest exporter of biofuel. It is eyeing ways to boost exports to the EU, which has proposed having biofuels make up 10 percent of the bloc's total fuel consumption by 2020.

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12 September 2008 | Society :: Biofuels :: International
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