In Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company announced it will begin planting jatropha along its 5,000km of pipeline to produce biodiesel but the trees will also provide other ecosystem services such a serving as a windbreak and preventing erosion. The project is inline with the company’s wider biofuel strategy to produce fuel for blending domestically. Jatropha is NNPC’s second preferred energy crop, coming in behind oil palm. The company’s executive director for oil and gas said that biofuels such as jatropha biodiesel will help reduce the negative impact fossil fuel has on the environment.
Latest article
Yeast mode: Starbucks India offers fermented cold foam
In India, Starbucks is now offering a protein-packed cold foam made of biofermented yeast.
Developed by SuperYou, the foam adds 11-18 grams of protein...
Judge allows challenge to state’s cultivated meat ban to proceed
In Texas, a federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on cultivated meat, allowing the case to proceed. Upside...
Bipartisan bill aims to boost biomanufacturing
In Nebraska, U.S. Senators Pete Ricketts (R) and Chris Coons (DE) have introduced the Renewable Chemicals Act, which would provide a targeted, short-term tax...