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YouTubesday: Palm Oil, $3Trill, Water(boarding), Poison, and Condi
2008-04-29 12:39:00 Dove and Palm Oil (ht. Corporate Babysitter) Condoleezza Rice (ht. Thom) Liberia needs clean water (ht. twotp) Old School Poision- Something to Believe In (ht. Gavin) 3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree (ht. Thom, Mike, MOA) Condi, Dove Campaign, federal budget, Palm Oil, Poison, war, waterboarding
By: Trying to Follow
Greenpeace, Dove, Palm Oil, and the Destruction of the Rainforest
2008-04-28 14:26:00 [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v-/JaH4y6ZjSfE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Unilever, makers of Dove, has recently released a video aimed at promoting...
By: Green Options
Indonesia, Malyasia to Partner on Palm Oil Energy Research
2008-04-28 08:42:00 DENPASAR, April 25 Asia Pulse - The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have agreed to promote their joint research on palm oil energy, in view of the European Union's negative campaigns against the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On Dove, palm oil, deforestation and global warming
2008-04-24 18:45:00 Greenpeace have launched a campaign this week to stop Dove - and its maker, Unilever - from destroying Indonesian rainforests and tropical peatlands for palm oil. The main facts are: Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, in large part due to the destruction of its forests at the hands of ...
Palm Oil: Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia in ?07
2008-04-15 02:19:00 Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia as the world?s top palm oil producer in 2007, due to dramatically increased area under plantation, Malaysia said Monday.?From preliminary figures in 2007 it looks like Indonesia has already overtaken us in terms of production,? Plantation and Commodities Minister Peter Chin told reporters.Chin said Malaysia was still the world?s top exporter but that Indonesia was ?very close behind? and would probably claim top status in 2008. ?We do not aspire to be number one all the time,? he said on the sidelines of a conference on sustainable palm oil production, in Sabah state on Malaysia?s Borneo Island. ?Now Indonesia is coming up strongly, we acknowledge that they have more land, more estates and therefore they should logically be a bigger producer and bigger exporter. We will accept that,? he said.Malaysia produced 15.82 million tonnes of crude palm oil last year, and earned 45.2 billion ringgit ($14.1 billion) in export revenue. Palm oil plantations acc...
Palm oil, Deforestation and Global Warming: Junk Theory
2008-04-15 00:00:00 Bookmark and Share By Frank Tate (Adapted from http://www.palmoiltruthfoundati-on.com) This is a true story. In a riveting and astonishing tell-all book called appropriately “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, John Perkins recounts his life story working inadvertently as an “Economic Hit Man”. A bright young graduate from ...
By: Mazzel Is Me
Indonesia overtakes Malaysia as top palm oil producer: minister
2008-04-14 11:04:00 Indonesia overtakes Malaysia as top palm oil producer: minister Kota Kinibalu, Malaysia (ANTARA News) - Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia as the world’s top palm oil producer in 2007, due to dramatically increased planting there, Malaysia said Monday. “From preliminary figures in 2007 it looks like Indonesia has already overtaken us in terms of production,” Plantation and Commodities ...
By: Indonesia First
Palm Oil Rises Most in Three Weeks as Indonesia Doubles Tax
2008-03-25 13:04:00 Palm oil prices in Malaysia, the global benchmark, had their biggest gain in three weeks on expectation the doubling in Indonesia's export tax may restrain supply of the commodity as demand increases in India and China.Indonesia, the largest palm oil producer, said today it would raise the tax on exports of the raw material next month to 20 percent. Malaysia's palm oil exports gained 10 percent in the first 25 days of March compared with the same period in the previous month, Intertek, an independent surveyor, said today.``Such a tax increase will discourage Indonesian players from exporting palm oil and put more constraints on the global supply,'' Fordyanto Widjaja, analyst at Morgan Stanley Asia Pte., said by telephone from Singapore today.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
BIOFUEL: Thailand worries over food shortages amid palm oil debate
2008-02-26 00:37:00 Thailand has started requiring that all its diesel fuel include a component made from palm oil, a move that could reduce costly energy imports but is driving up prices for the commodity, experts say. From February 1, the kingdom began requiring that diesel vehicles run on a blend that includes two percent biodiesel, and is considering raising that to five percent within five years. The switch has sent prices for palm oil soaring, leading to shortages of the commodity that is widely used for domestic cooking and in the food industry.Palm oil is among the products for which prices are controlled by the government, but as prices have risen globally, traders stopped selling to stores or began ignoring the fixed price.That sounded alarm bells for producers and consumers, who urged the government to ban exports of palm oil and to adjust its price controls. Instead, the Commerce Ministry allowed a one-time import of 30,000 tonnes of palm oil to boost supplies until March, when production ...
Greens welcome report slamming Indonesian Palm Oil
2008-02-12 00:05:00 If palm oil is to be produced sustainably, the damaging effects of unjust policies and practices in the Indonesian plantation sector must be addressed, says the Green Party?s Derek Wall. Green Party Principal Speaker Dr. Derek Wall has welcomed today?s report from a coalition of environmental groups highlighting the dangers of palm oil production for the global monoculture biofuel industry. The report, Losing Ground, published by Friends of the Earth, Sawit Watch and LifeMosiac, highlights the social and environmental problems that often arrives in areas of the world allocated for growing biofuel crops."This report addresses the very critical issues surrounding the global rush to large-scale agrofuels. Indigenous communities around the world would eventually be threatened with severe food shortages since there will be no space left for subsistence farming. Furthermore, every litre of palm oil from a former rainforest does more damage to the environment than a litre of petrol. The ...
Palm oil, palm oil everywhere, but only a few drops to cook?
2008-01-07 15:32:00 Only in Malaysia…. Malaysia - world’s second largest palm oil producer. (Indonesia is now the world’s largest producer.) The “new”Sime Darby - world’s largest listed palm oil producer. And yet, rationing has been imposed: 5kg buying limit on cooking oil PUTRAJAYA: Five kilograms ? that is the maximum amount of cooking oil that each consumer can buy when a move ...
By: anilnetto.com
Farmers suffer from booming palm oil
2008-01-04 05:32:00 The Indonesian Farmers' Union criticized the government Wednesday for mismanagement in the food crop sector, highlighting the massive displacement of farmers by the expansion of oil palm plantations.Union chairman Henry Saragih said the palm oil industry had been aggressively expanding plantations to capitalize on a continuing rise in crude palm oil prices expected to result from higher world demand, especially in India and China.He cited 2006 records of the Agriculture Ministry showing oil palm plantations had grown by more than 200 percent during the last decade -- from 2.7 million hectares in 1998 to 6.1 million hectares in 2006.He said large-scale private companies, including PT Astra Argo Lestari and PT SMART, controlled 57 percent of plantation areas, while the government and small-scale private growers had the other 43 percent.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
large palm oil plantation for sale
2007-12-24 15:30:00 we are in partnership and due to some shortcomings we decided to sell out upto 90percent of our company sharesget to us if interested
Borneo!
2007-11-08 23:59:00 Kids from Sabah in the "School Bus" on the way to a Borneo Child Aid Society Children's Centre.Did I mention, I love working here? Today I've been reading about the great work The Body Shop Foundation is doing... I had no idea, we were being so philanthropic! The foundation is supporting innovative projects around the world working in the areas of human & civil rights and environmental & animal protection.A great example of a grant that covers all of these bases is the AUD $11,351 granted to the Borneo Child Aid Society, which provides education for children in Sabah. These kids don't have access to the basic human right of education. The group is building a new learning centre that will provide education to 100 children in the rural plantation areas of Sabah. If you're passionate about protecting our planet, their education is vitally important. I'll tell you why:There is a multi-layered problem taking place in Borneo right now. A surge in demand for palm oil as -iro...
Palm Oil Biofuel
2007-10-26 15:23:00 Malaysia’s move towards Palm tree plantation should be a model for all countries resides on this mother earth planet. From cooking oil to biodiesel produced by palm tree. No more depend on petroleum source that controls world economy. If biodiesel been adopted by industrial movers and easily available to end users, the cost of products might plummeted and opens opportunity to many. No more giant petro companies such as Shell, BP, Esso controls oil price that affected the whole world. Recently, there is a group of independent people in Malaysia tries to boycott against giant petro companies such as Shell, BP, Esso and Projet. This happens during Hari Raya festival season. How far this action comes to success is unknown but this is a good start.
Sustainability: in the palm oil of our hands
2007-10-16 06:27:00 Aerial photo of a palm oil plantation in the middle of a natural forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo: Flims4Conservation Yesterday I found myself at a meeting convened by World Vision and attended by several giants of the retail world like the Coles Group, Independent Grocers Association, Unilever, The Australian Food Grocery Council as well as an advocate from Friends Of the Earth. Sounds weird but the group had actually come together to hear from us, or more specifically: Rikke Netterstrom, The Body Shop International?s Ethical Policy Manager and a member of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). We were discussing ways to bring sustainable palm oil to the Australian marketplace. As the second most used vegetable oil in the world, palm oil is responsible for the livelihood of millions of people, however it?s a crop that?s being blamed for:massive deforestationdestroying fragile ecosystemsthreatening the extinction of wildlife like orangutans, asian elephants,...
Lowongan | Operator Usaha (code: OP) | Palm Oil Company
2007-10-03 04:53:00 Operator Usaha (code: OP)Kami adalah perusahaan kelapa sawit dan saat ini membutuhkan seorang operator. adapun syarat yang diperlukan bisa dilihat di bawah ini:----------------------------------------------------------------------Syarat-syarat yang dibutuhkan:1. Pria2. Memiliki KTP Riau3. Memiliki pengalaman minilmal 2 tahun dan dibuktikan dengan referensi dari PMKS yang ada4. Pendidikan minimal SMU atau sederajat5. Memiliki sertifikat boiler dari instansi terkait.-----------------------------------------------------------------------Kami tunggu surat lamaran lengkap paling lambat tanggal 18 Oktober 2007PO. Box1337Pekanbaru 28000Mohon untuk mencantumkan code pada sudut kiri amplop.
Lowongan | Kepala Tata Usaha (code: KTU) | Palm Oil Company
2007-10-03 04:51:00 Kepala Tata Usaha (code: KTU)Dicari seorang kandidat untuk posisi Quality Control untuk pada perusahaan kami dengan kriteria sebagai berikut:----------------------------------------------------------------------Persyaratan:1. Pria / Wanita2. Memiliki KTP Riau3. Memiliki pengalaman minilmal 3 tahun dibidangnya masing-masing4. Pendidikan minimal S1atau sederajat5. Dapat menggunakan komputer dengan baik-----------------------------------------------------------------------Mohon untuk mencantumkan code pada sudut kiri amplop.Lamaran lengkap ditunggu paling lama tanggal 18 Oktober 2007PO. Box1337Pekanbaru 28000
Lowongan | Mill Manager (code: MM) | Palm Oil Company
2007-10-03 04:49:00 Mill Manager (code: MM)Kami, membutuhkan seorang Mill Manager dengan syarat personal sebagai berikut:----------------------------------------------------------------------Persyaratan:1. Warga negara Indonesia2. KTP Riau3. Berpengalaman 3 tahun dibidangnya4. Pendidikan minimal S1 teknik Kimia, electro atau mesin5. Bisa mengoperasikan komputer6. Bisa berbahasa Inggris minimal pasif-----------------------------------------------------------------------Cantumkan code pada sudut kiri amplop.Lamaran lengkap ditunggu paling lama tanggal 18 Oktober 2007PO. Box1337Pekanbaru 28000
Astra to invest Rp 2 trillion in North Maluku palm oil sector
2007-09-22 15:11:00 Publicly listed palm oil company PT Astra Agro Lestari will invest Rp 2 trillion on palm oil plantations in the West Halmahera district, a local official said Friday.PT Astra Argo Lestari is the first company to enter the palm oil sector in North Maluku. Most private firms in the province are engaged in the mining, forestry and fishery sectorsIndonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Southeast Asia gears up for palm oil boom
2007-09-16 02:19:00 Southeast Asian nations are gearing up for a palm oil boom as interest in biofuels soars, but activists warn the crop may not satisfy a global thirst for energy that is both clean and green.They caution that oil palm plantations require massive swathes of land ? either what?s left of the region?s disappearing forests, denuded plots that would be better off reforested, or land critical to supporting local people.Governments and companies have been scrambling to cash in since palm oil prices jumped last year due to spiking demand from China, India and Europe, where biofuels should comprise 10 per cent of motor fuels by 2020.Indonesia has launched a particularly ambitious biofuels expansion programme, which aims to see Southeast Asia?s largest economy source 17 per cent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2025.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Palm Oil BioDiesel
2007-09-02 17:24:00 By : Shana Shane100% CRUDE PALM OIL REFINED (RBD) PALM OIL PALM OLEIN & PALM STEARIN are EXCELLENT VEGETABLE OILs THAT CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE YOUR BIODIESEL!Palm Oil Biodiesel is produced by a reaction of a palm oil or animal fat with an alcohol such as methanol or ethanol in the presence of a catalyst to yield mono-alkyl esters and glycerin, which is removed.With the increase in awareness and importance attached to environmental issues such as global warming, more environment-friendly fuels are being developed as alternatives to fossil fuel. One such fuel, which has been gaining prominence in recent years, is biodiesel. Clean and renewable, biofuel has been touted as the answer to the issue of the diminishing of energy reserves.The advantages of palm oil biodiesel, drawn from the field trials are no modification of the engines is required, good engine performance, cleaner exhaust emission and comparable fuel consumption in comparison with the petroleum diesel.6 REASONS WHY PALM OIL...
By: Prostate Massage
Palm Oil BioDiesel
2007-09-02 17:24:00 By : Shana Shane100% CRUDE PALM OIL REFINED (RBD) PALM OIL PALM OLEIN & PALM STEARIN are EXCELLENT VEGETABLE OILs THAT CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE YOUR BIODIESEL!Palm Oil Biodiesel is produced by a reaction of a palm oil or animal fat with an alcohol such as methanol or ethanol in the presence of a catalyst to yield mono-alkyl esters and glycerin, which is removed.With the increase in awareness and importance attached to environmental issues such as global warming, more environment-friendly fuels are being developed as alternatives to fossil fuel. One such fuel, which has been gaining prominence in recent years, is biodiesel. Clean and renewable, biofuel has been touted as the answer to the issue of the diminishing of energy reserves.The advantages of palm oil biodiesel, drawn from the field trials are no modification of the engines is required, good engine performance, cleaner exhaust emission and comparable fuel consumption in comparison with the petroleum diesel.6 REASONS WHY PALM...
By: Prostate Massage
Palm oil not a field of dreams for all Indonesians
2007-08-20 01:31:00 Palm oil prices might be going through the roof and making investors and businessmen rich, but the soaring prices have not improved the lot of pickers and locals working on the fringes of the palm oil industry. On the island of Sumatra, one of the main palm oil-growing islands in Indonesia, the world's second-largest producer after Malaysia, 52-year-old Minah salvages unspoilt fruit from partly rotten palm branch that have fallen to the ground. The Indonesian mother of eight ekes out a living on a state-run palm oil plantation near her house by picking through fallen branches to extract fruit which she sells for 600 rupiah per kg (6 U.S. cents) to a middleman. "The plantation doesn't mind as long as I don't touch bunches still on trees," said Minah, as flies and other insects perch on her hands, stained by the sticky brown juice that oozes from the fruit. The sales net her around $1 to $2 per day. "And people say palm oil is expensive," she remarksIndonesia News Bl...
Body Shop to use sustainable Palm Oil
2007-07-12 23:00:00 The famous eco friendly cosmetics retailer the Body Shop is to become the first retailer in the world to use sustainable palm oil, which is a great move because the production of palm oil is directly responsible for the decline of rainforests. The sustainable palm oil will be coming from the plantations in Columbia, where it ...
Palm oil firms burning Indonesia forests: Greenpeace
2007-07-12 13:18:00 Palm oil companies are burning peat forests to clear land for plantations in Indonesia's Riau province, despite government pledges to end forest fires, environment group Greenpeace said on Thursday. Forest fires are an annual menace for Indonesia and the country's neighbors, who have grown deeply frustrated at the apparent lack of success in curbing the dry-season blazes and vast smoke clouds, or haze, that smothers the region.
Environmentalists: Company produces Indonesian palm oil for biofuel unethic
2007-07-04 02:06:00 A Singapore-based company was involved in slashing and burning Indonesian forests to make way for palm oil plantations that feed the growing market for biofuels, environmental and activist groups claimed Tuesday. The company emphatically denied the allegations. The Dutch arm of Friends of the Earth and Indonesian rights group Lembaga Gemawan published a 100-page report they said details evidence that subsidiaries of Wilmar International Ltd. dodged environmental rules to plant palm trees in West Kalimantan. But a Wilmar spokeswoman called the accusations ''erroneous, misleading and defamatory.'' ''As a responsible corporate citizen, the Wilmar Group is fully committed to sustainable palm oil,'' Carolyn Lim Wan Yu wrote in an e-mailed reaction. Past studies by environmental groups have - without naming names - found that developers in Malaysia and Indonesia burned vast tracts of rain forest to grow palm oil. The fire...
Palm oil fatty acid used as engine fuel enhancer
2007-07-01 16:18:00 Anybody who has used palm oil based fatty acid added to gasiline or diesel and it's or the engine's performance thereafter.
FEATURE-Indonesia's forests threatened by logging, palm oil
2007-06-04 02:11:00 It's one of the few countries that still has vast swathes of tropical rainforests left. But conservationists say maybe not for long.Indonesia's rainforests -- especially those on Borneo island -- are being stripped so rapidly because of illegal logging and palm oil plantations for bio-fuels, they could be wiped out altogether within the next 15 years, some environmentalists say."Sixty percent of the protected and conservation areas are already badly damaged due to illegal logging and palm oil plantations," Rully Sumada, a forestry expert with Indonesian environmental group Walhi, told Reuters."The deforestation speed is 2.8 million hectares a year.At this rate, by 2012 the forests in Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi will be gone, only the forests in Papua will be left. And if cutting of trees carries on, no forest will be left by 2022." Indonesia has a total forest area of more than 225 million acres (91 million hectares), or about 10 percent of the world's remaining tropical...
Palm Oil Deals At A Boil
2007-05-28 10:22:00 With demand for cooking oil soaring, the family-controlled Salim Group of Indonesia, founded by Liem Sioe Liong, announced over the weekend an 8.8 trillion Indonesia rupiah ($1 billion) deal to acquire London Sumatra, an oil palm plantation company with colonial roots dating back more 100 years.The acquisition is being made through a Singapore-listed subsidiary, Indofood Agri Resources, an oil palm producer that is a unit of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur. Indofood, one of the world?s largest instant noodle makers, is controlled by Liem?s eldest son, Anthony Salim. Liem was ranked among the richest people in Indonesia by Forbes in 2005. Liem grew his business empire from its core plantation business. Indofood said in a disclosure to the Singapore Stock Exchange on Saturday that it plans to buy an initial 64.4% stake for 6,500 rupiah (about 74 U.S. cents) a share in London Sumatra from three shareholders ? First Durango Singapore, a Singapore investment fund, London-based Ashmore Inve...
Indonesia Set for Record Palm Oil Crop, Bangun Says (Update3)
2007-05-02 14:59:00 Indonesia may produce a record 17.4 million tons of palm oil this year, surpassing Malaysia as the world's top grower, as higher yields and acreage offset the effect of a drought last year, an industry official said. ``This is because of higher productivity,'' Derom Bangun, the head of the Indonesian Palm Oil Association, said. Malaysia may harvest 16.5 million tons in 2007, Minister for Plantation Industries and Commodities Peter Chin Fah Kui said March 13. The two Southeast Asian nations, which grow about 85 percent of the world's palm oil, are trying to expand output and benefit from surging demand, led by China. The commodity is used as a cooking oil, to make soaps and as a fuel additive. Bangun forecast in January output of 16.4 million tons this year. Still, the revised forecast ``seems a bit high,'' Christine Salim, an analyst at PT Samuel Asset Management in Jakarta, said today. Bangun's figure is ``not in line wit...
Palm Oil on the Rise as Cities Ban Trans Fats
2007-04-29 18:21:00 <img src=’http://www.araconten-t.com/images/americanpalmoilB1_-rgb51.jpg’ align=’left’>Wi-th big cities like New York requiring restaurants to eliminate trans fats from their foods, restaurateurs and consumers alike are seeking a healthful, versatile alternative to oils high in harmful trans fats. Increasingly, they are finding the solution in an age-old natural product ? palm oil.<br /> <br /> In 2006, governing bodies in New ...
Malaysia says activists trying to harm palm oil industry by highlighting or
2007-04-16 13:26:00 Malaysia accused Western activists Monday of trying to undermine the palm oil industry by claiming that orangutans are threatened by the clearing of forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said government and industry officials should take immediate action to disprove claims that the spread of palm oil plantations is endangering wildlife such as orangutans, the national news agency Bernama reported.Over the past two years, environment and consumer advocacy groups in the United States and Europe have increasingly warned that the palm oil sector in Malaysia and neighboring Indonesia is destroying large tracts of forests and encroaching on the habitats of endangered species.A recent United Nations report, "The Last Stand of the Orang Utan: State of Emergency," said oil palm plantations are expanding so rapidly in the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia that almost no virgin forest will remain by 2022.
Palm oil killing rainforest in Indonesia
2007-04-13 07:07:00 Palangkaraya (Indonesia), April 13: Sulur is 50 years old, delicately built, but strong as a bear. With high swings, the Indonesian slams his axe into the stem of an oil-palm fruit bunch two, three, four times. Then the bunch of black-orange, berry-like fruits falls to the ground.
By: newkerala.com
More palm-oil biodiesel plants popping up in Asia
2007-04-01 19:04:00 Filed under: Biodiesel, Manufacturing/Plants Indonesian corporation Sinar Mas Group is planning to build two massive new palm-oil biodiesel plants for fuel export to Europe and the U.S. The first of the two is to be built on the Indonesian island of Sumatra with an annual capacity of 400,000 tonnes with the second to be built in ... |
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