News and Notes - Oct. 24, 2008

Feature Article

New ethanol plant at the ready line (Obion, TN corn plant coming online)
http://www.nwtntoday.com/news.php?viewStory=18319

Ethanol Grain Processors of Obion, TN is preparing to begin ethanol production at the $170 million plant. When operating at capacity, the plant will grind 100,000 bushels a day to produce 100,000,000 gallons of ethanol each year.

US News

Americans Increasingly Concerned about Food Prices, U.S. Ethanol Policy, According to The 2008 Hormel Hunger Survey
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Americans-Increasingly-Concerned-about-Food/story.aspx?guid=%7BA8B79175-29DA-4035-9894-5467D8593C86%7D

Ethanol no longer seen as big driver of food price
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7914436

Ethanol group's PBS protest may reveal industry panic
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-fri-greising-ethanol-oct24,0,7054199.column

A New OPEC for (Natural) Gas?
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/energywire/2008/10/a_new_opec_for_gas.html

Leading Advanced Biofuel Companies, Researchers, Investors Call on Air Resources Board to Reconsider Draft Low Carbon Fuel Regulations (CA)
http://sev.prnewswire.com/oil-energy/20081023/LATH53623102008-1.html

POET Opens Marion, Ohio Biorefinery
http://www.poetenergy.com/news/showRelease.asp?id=139

Santee Cooper & Allied Waste Generating 3.2 MW of Bioenergy
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=53906

Ethanol support irks cattle groups
http://www.kansas.com/business/agriculture/story/571449.html

Pennsylvania experiences delay with B2 mandate
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2893

Making The Switch
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=4868&q=&page=1

Surprise: Government Mandates Behind Ethanol ‘Bubble’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nathan-burchfiel/2008/10/23/surprise-government-mandates-behind-ethanol-bubble

Camelina crush plant to go on line this month
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2895

Biofuel investors hot for pond scum
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/10/23/algae/

Make Your Own Ethanol for $1 Per Gallon with New Microfueler From E-Fuel Corp
http://www.naturalnews.com/024561.html

'Algae Can Be the Solution' States Vinod Khosla at 2008 Algae Biomass Summit
http://www.biobasednews.com/node/18769

International News

Lignol and Suncor Sign Cellulosic Ethanol Project Development Agreement
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/energy/lignol-suncor-sign-cellulosic-ethanol-project-development-agreement-1454515117/

French ethanol makers welcome reduction of tax hike
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7919297

Biofuels in the Americas: Driving Farmers off Their Lands
http://us.oneworld.net/article/358142-biofuels-driving-farmers-off-their-land

Biofuel additive makes pigs fly (Austrailia)
http://www.independentweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/biofuel-additive-makes-pigs-fly/1342898.aspx

DSM launches U.S. Department of Energy-funded research initiative for second generation biofuels (Netherlands)
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/dsm-launches-us-department-energy-funded/story.aspx?guid=%7B63044F6C-B83A-4F31-984A-F6EF5172E1B4%7D&dist=hppr

Algae Biofuels Challenge (UK)
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/technology/directedresearch/algae.htm