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02 February 2008

Petrochemical News: EU Banning Biofuels Import

More and more countries are eyeing European Union (EU) stance on biofuels as development of banning of biofuels into EU countries are in talks. The EU is in the process of drafting a law that will propose on the ban imports of certain biofuels. If successful, the law would stop imports of crops cultivated in forests, wetlands and grasslands biofuels. The legislation, backed by environmentalists is due to proliferation of greenhouse gas emissions by reducing natural forests for biofuels plants.

The new EU legislation would monitor Europe's biofuels from crops such as rapeseed and imports of palm oil from South-East Asia, mostly Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand and soya from Latin America and ethanol from Brazil. The ban would most likely impacted palm oil imports for biofuels on the basis that growing the crops for fuel can harm the environment.

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