The inevitable has happened. The carbon neutral myth has led a corrupt government to rob food from its people. It’s the military junta of Myanmar, the cyclone stricken country! This is a press release by the Moroccan News Portal:
BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis — in part because the regime has been forcing some farmers to stop growing rice in a plan to produce biofuel instead.
On the AFP website, the same paragraph is hidden amidst the rambling how the junta refuses foreign aid pretending they have everything under control. What control? The entire scandal unfolds as reported by this Morrocan news agency:
Read about the Myanmar biofuel here.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackso Myanmar is the cutting edge of the environmental movement? leading the way in biofuel production, trying to reduce their CO2 emmissions?
In January 2006, according to the report, Industry Minister Col. U Aung Thaung said the production of physic nut for biodiesel was the only way Myanmar could cope with a chronic oil shortage.
A sharp rise in state-controlled fuel prices sparked protests last year over the high cost of living, which later turned into large anti-government demonstrations that were suppressed by deadly force in September.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5idx4mvBTSHJtXWrMYotkf9X-b2YQD90CVQJ00
i had the vague hope, that part 2 of this “series” would include some hard data or more serious analysis.
for a start, try to follow this approach:
at current oil price, biofuel is pretty compettetive….
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