Stories tagged with palm oil
A Visit To Malaysia
Posted by Big Gav on August 3, 2008 - 12:27pm in TOD: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: malaysia, original, palm oil, petronas, rubber [list all tags]
I spent a week in Malaysia back in June, loafing about in the sun on the island of Langkawi. While I mostly tried to ignore the news flow, I did read the local paper each day and there seemed to be plenty of energy related stories on the boil. These ranged from prominent exposure of the global "energy and food crises" to more locally focused issues, which I'll take a look at in this post.
Palm Oil -- The Southeast Asia Report
Posted by Dave Cohen on January 30, 2007 - 7:15pm
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: biodiesel, food costs, indonesia, jatropha, malaysia, oil palm, palm oil, rainforests [list all tags]
Palm Oil plantation in Indonesia. Fires in background.
Source: rainforestweb.org
It is a sad story in which the cure is sometimes worse than the disease. When you see the magic
, please pay close attention.


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