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EU biofuel destroying Argentinean rural families
Reinhard Behrend - 22.06.2007 01:16
The EU and the UK government are financing a project to try and develop biofuels for the UK fishing fleet. The Sea Fish Industry Authority manage the project. The British company Regenatec want to import large quantities of Argentinean soya for biofuels for the fishing fleet. Soya expansion is the driving force behind the rapid destruction of Argentina's semi-arid Chaco forest and the humid Yungas forest. Tens of thousands of rural families have already lost their land to soya monocultures.
Pesticide spraying from the air poisons communities, food crops, water and soils. As food production is displaced by soya, malnutrition rates are increasing. Soya monocultures are linked to high greenhouse gas emissions, both from deforestation and from the emission of nitrous oxide, which is nearly 300 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. Plans to use Argentinean soybean oil in the fishing fleet will further encourage the expansion of soy monocultures at the expense of ancient forests and local communities. Please click on
 http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/
and ask those responsible for the project to drop those plans and, instead, to work to reduce climate change emissions by drastically reducing fuel use in the UK. This email alert is supported by Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina (www.grr.org.ar) and Biofuelwatch (www.biofuelwatch.org.uk). Hello,
The EU and the UK government are financing a project to try and develop biofuels for the UK fishing fleet. The Sea Fish Industry Authority manage the project. The British company Regenatec want to import large quantities of Argentinean soya for biofuels for the fishing fleet. Soya expansion is the driving force behind the rapid destruction of Argentina's semi-arid Chaco forest and the humid Yungas forest. Tens of thousands of rural families have already lost their land to soya monocultures. Pesticide spraying from the air poisons communities, food crops, water and soils. As food production is displaced by soya, malnutrition rates are increasing. Soya monocultures are linked to high greenhouse gas emissions, both from deforestation and from the emission of nitrous oxide, which is nearly 300 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. Plans to use Argentinean soybean oil in the fishing fleet will further encourage the expansion of soy monocultures at the expense of ancient forests and local communities. Please click on
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/
and ask those responsible for the project to drop those plans and, instead, to work to reduce climate change emissions by drastically reducing fuel use in the UK. This email alert is supported by Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Argentina (www.grr.org.ar) and Biofuelwatch (www.biofuelwatch.org.uk).
 E-Mail: info@regenwald.org  Website: http://www.regenwald.org
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| Read more about: europa natuur, dier en mens | | supplements | | on the other side | nuns with guns - 25.06.2007 00:58
Biodiesel is a good thing as long as it is recycled oil that has been used
for whatever reason and that is going into waste, which is also not good for the environment. What companies do is to produce new oil, destroy the forests and then call it bio.
Obviously if they recicle oil they do not make enough money.
Stupidity rules.
When will they understand that recycling is the best option ??
Website: http://www.nunswithguns.nl
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