Propel Biodiesel is setting up shop in downtown Seattle, the first biodiesel fueling station in that city’s downtown area. This story in the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer has more details: The 9,000 square foot biodiesel station — to open at the southwest corner of Westlake Avenue and Valley Street in March 2008 — is slated to feature four biodiesel pumps offering …
El Paso Gives Biodiesel Producer Tax Break
The City of El Paso, Texas has given its first biodiesel producer a property tax break. City council members have given Global Alternative Fuels, which is planning on building a $9 million biodiesel plant on a 30-acre site, according to this story in the El Paso Times: By a 5-1 vote, the council approved a five-year, 50 percent refund on …
Pennsylvania Senate Passes Energy & Biodiesel Bills
Pennsylvania’s State Senate has passed several bills in the last couple of days that will help renewable energy efforts in the Keystone State. The Houston (TX) Chronicle reports a $650 million omnibus energy bill and two biodiesel measures received passage on the last day of business for Senate for the year: “This is a wonderful start and is a great …
Hawaii Site of Algae Biodiesel Venture
Petroleum giant Shell could be getting into the algae biodiesel business. The company is joining with Hawaii-based HR Biopetroleum to test This story in the Financial Times says the pair will start by building a small research plant with hopes to make it a full-scale commercial plant of 20,000 hectares, capable of producing 1.2 million tons of oil per year: …
Biofuels Centerpiece of Caribbean Conference
Much of the talk at the recent Miami Conference on the Caribbean Basin in Florida was about biofuels… and how they could help the impoverished economies of the Caribbean. This story in Ft. Lauderdale (FL) Sun-Sentinel talks about biodiesel and ethanol devlopment and what it means for the Caribbean: “In today’s world and in today’s agriculture, there is no more …
Expert Offers Biodiesel Lawnmower Movie
Recent numbers say American lawnmowers are using 800 million gallons of gasoline a year, while producing 5 percent of this country’s air pollution. So, what’s the solution? Stop mowing the lawn? (The wife says that is NOT an option!). Global warming expert Corbett Kroehler might have a solution… a biodiesel lawnmower. This link (Keyboard-Culture-movies.com) even has a video of the …
Biofuels Conferences in the Sunshine State
As the Midwest (where I’m at) thaws out of a major ice storm that shut down the power (my home for a little while last night) and prepares for ANOTHER round this weekend, some time in Florida this winter sounds mighty inviting. Well if the escape from the Midwest ice and snow is not enough for you (or if you’re …
AE Biofuels Now Publicly Traded
AE Biofuels, formerly known as American Ethanol, has completed its plans to become a publicly traded company by merging with a firm known as Marwich II Ltd. The California-based company is involved in both ethanol and biodiesel, with majority ownership of a plant in India that is designed to produce 50 million gallons of biodiesel per year and plans to …
Biofuel Producer Honored as “Great Oregonian”
SeQuential Biofuels, maker and seller of biodiesel and ethanol, has been honored as one of five recipients of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s Gold Awards, recognizing “greatness in Oregonians.” This story from the Portland (OR) News says the award was handed out recently at the Oregon Convention Center: SeQuential, which opened the nation’s first biofuels station in 2006 on McVay Highway …
Rising Soybean Prices Idle Delaware Biodiesel Plant
The high cost of soybeans, brought on by the popularity of biodiesel, has forced another biodiesel plant to stop operations while waiting for prices to subside. This story in the Salisbury (MD) Daily Times says the Mid-Atlantic Biodiesel plant in Clayton, Delaware has had to quit producing biodiesel: The Mid-Atlantic Biodiesel facility has the capacity to refine up to 6 …