China Mulls Banning Food In Ethanol Fuel Production
China Daily:
China may entirely switch to non-food materials such as cassva, sweet potato, sorgo and cellulose in producing ethanol fuel as a substitute for petroleum, said a government official.
The country would approve no projects designed to produce ethanol fuel with food from now on, an official of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) told a seminar on China’s fuel ethanol development held in Beijing on Saturday.
“Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the direction for China,” said Xu Dingming, vice director of the Office of the National Energy Leading Group, who was also at the seminar.
China has been trying to avoid occupation of arable land, consumption of large amount of grain and damages to the environment in developing the renewable energies.
The current four enterprises engaged in producing corn-based ethanol would be asked to switch to non-food materials gradually, according to the NDRC official who declined to be named.
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