EU in quandary over biofuels

DOING the politically correct thing is never easy, and the latest PC dilemma arises in the European biofuel industry.

European Commission investigations have indicated that EU policies to promote use of biofuel could indirectly affect a global land area the size of Denmark, over the next decade.

What happens is that a European farmer grows a crop of rapeseed, wheat, corn or sugar beet, not for food, for production of ethanol or biodiesel.