Recent Posts Tagged With 'food crisis'

• G8 eats their way through food crisis

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 09:00 in biofuel, agribusiness, wall street journal, the guardian, g8, ips, food crisis

  After disappearing from the frontpages of our newspapers, the food crisis - which never really went away - is making headlines again, if only because the bigwigs at the G8 are talking about it over eighteen course meals and driving around in fleets o...

• Biofuel bill off to the Senate

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 17:39 in ethanol, biofuel, biodiesel, hydrogen, food crisis, bill c-33

  The House of Commons passed the controversial biofuel law, Bill C-33, yesterday afternoon when the Liberal Party backed the Conservatives to carry the vote 173 to 64. The result is only slightly surprising, since the Liberals clearly need to avoid co...

• Rethinking Biofuels: The case against Bill C-33

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 00:01 in ethanol, Biofuels, food crisis, bill c-33

  Pressure is growing for the federal government to drop Bill C-33. The proposed law would mandate minimum amounts of renewable fuels in gasoline (five percent ethanol for regular gas and two percent biodiesel for diesel gasoline). The bill would earma...