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Information about bioenergy in New Zealand.
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Events
- 21 April 2010, Wellington: EECA Biofuels and Electric Vehicles Conference 2010. (Themes: markets, sustainability)
- 22 April 2010, Wellington: BANZ Liquid Biofuels in NZ - Emerging opportunities, sustainable development and increasing availability.
News
- Cargill Sets Sights on Worldwide Sustainable Palm Oil by 2020, 13 July 2011 by GreenBiz.com: "Agribusiness giant Cargill plans to only offer palm oil -- an ingredient in Girl Scout cookies and numerous other foods -- that is certified sustainable in select countries by 2015 and worldwide by 2020."
- "Cargill aims to have all of the palm oil it sells in Europe, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand be certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) within the next four years."
- "Cargill then plans for all palm oil sold in China, India and elsewhere to be RSPO-certified by 2020."
- "The first goal, however, excludes palm kernel oil, which is produced from the same oil palm trees that palm oil comes from and is used in food products, soaps and other goods."
- "The Rainforest Action Network, which has been dogging Cargill about its palm oil use, says that while the goals are a good start, the deadlines are too far away, RSPO certification is weak and palm kernel oil shouldn't be left out."
- "Cargill says, though, that it's trying to be realistic with its goals, and is aiming for achievable targets."[1]
- Success of Palm Oil Brings Plantations Under Pressure to Preserve Habitats , 17 September 2009 by New York Times: Each year, the oil palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia "produce millions of tons of palm oil, which has soared in popularity since the 1970s and is now found in foods like margarine, potato chips and chocolate, as well as in soap, cosmetics and biofuel."
- "But the palm plantations are in the cross hairs of consumer groups and corporations in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. Echoing the longstanding concerns of environmental groups, they say palm oil producers continue to fell large tracts of forest to make way for plantations, destroying habitat for endangered species like the orangutan."[2]
- Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol, 24 April 2007 from the New York Times. A New Zealand company has recieved financing from Vinod Khosla to commercialize a technology to produce ethanol from carbon monoxide gas (CO). Bacteria consume the gas and produce ethanol. Carbon monoxide is produced as a by-product of many industrial processes, including steel production.
- NZ firm makes bio-diesel from sewage in world first. Marlborough-based Aquaflow Bionomic yesterday announced it had produced its first sample of bio-diesel fuel from algae in sewage ponds.
Issues
Organizations
Governmental organizations
Nongovernmental organizations
- Bioenergy Association of New Zealand (BANZ)
- On 30 August 2010 BANZ launched the New Zealand Bioenergy Strategy. The Strategy is designed to achieve:
- “Economic growth and employment built on New Zealand’s capability and expertise in growing and processing wood-crops and converting organic by-products to energy, leading to new business opportunities which by 2040 supply more than 25% of the country’s energy needs, including 30% of the country’s transport fuels.”
- Bioenergy Strategy for New Zealand, August 2010.
- Supporting Document:
- On 30 August 2010 BANZ launched the New Zealand Bioenergy Strategy. The Strategy is designed to achieve:
Companies
- Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation - A New Zealand based company that is the first to harvest wild algae (from waste-water treatment plants) for biodiesel production.
- LanzaTech - Developing "an ethanol production process that can be retrofitted to industrial facilities to generate ethanol from the carbon monoxide component of waste flue gases."[3]
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