Air New Zealand looks to increase biofuel use

Submitted by 11thhouraction on June 5, 2008 - 10:17am

WELLINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Air New Zealand (AIR.NZ: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it planned to use biofuels for 10 percent of its fuel consumption within the next five years amid rising jet fuel prices and a global drive to cut carbon emissions.

Chief executive Rob Fyfe said the airline would use one million barrels of biofuel a year in its jet fleet by 2013.

"Air New Zealand is absolutely committed to being at the forefront of testing environmentally sustainable fuels for use in aviation," Fyfe said in a statement, adding biofuels had a carbon footprint about half the size of standard jet fuel. Fyfe said the airline was targeting a biofuelled test flight near the end of 2008, using a fuel made from the African plant jatropha.

The airline also said its programme of emissions savings had resulted in a reduction of 91,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the past three years.

Shares in the airline, 77 percent owned by the New Zealand government, last traded up 1.75 percent at NZ$1.16. (Reporting by Adrian Bathgate)

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Biofuels

Submitted by Ian on June 22, 2008 - 10:48am.

how can anyone consider that the use of biofuels is the answer or even part of the answer to our problem, the reality is the use of them is simply going to make the problem worse, how much land will be needed to grow enough crops to provide 10 percent of the worlds fuel needs we are already flattening forests to grow them strange really because it is the forests we will need to help sort out the problem of carbon emissions, i am beginning to wonder if we are the intelligent species on this planet, after all out of all the species that we haven't wiped out yet; we are the only ones destroying the very thing that keeps us alive

we have to stop this wave of fad ideas and start thinking of ways to reduce what we use and not simply change it

Biofuels

Submitted by Ian on June 22, 2008 - 10:48am.

we have to stop this wave of fad ideas and start thinking of ways to reduce what we use and not simply change it

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