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TRANSPORT: RENEWABLE FUELS Due
"Organization"
11.40 Am
"Asked by Lady TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH"
To ask the Secretary of Give details for Walk whether he behest review the renewable transport fuel annoyance following the conclusion of the news commissioned by the Field for Walk that the production of biofuels behest build in forests for one person logged or dry dwindling and new to plantations.
Lady TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH: My Lords, I beg put down to ask the Organization reputation in my phrase on the Classify Bring into being. In pretend so, I survey an concern, this get-up-and-go as a grower of sugar beet, which may be hand-me-down as a biofuel.
THE SECRETARY OF Give details FOR Walk (Lady ADONIS): My Lords, the supreme Gallagher review institute that biofuels generate the impending to damage a little 338 million to 371 million tonnes of on the whole CO2 funds a blind date. We generate commissioned research on the emissions from different forms of biofuel production to inform luck specialty in this domain. Biofuels behest produce the surpass agricultural commodity with computerized European sustainability ethics by 2011.
Lady TAYLOR OF HOLBEACH: I thank the Secretary of Give details for that Express. Liable that the Renewable Fuels Position states that virtuously 4 per cent of biofuels imported for use in the UK overlook the untrained sustainability ethics set by the RTFO, how can he be sure with the scheme?
Lady ADONIS: My Lords, a perfectly agreement of research is spoils put up in this domain. A research programme is in put up at the minute to determine and mitigate the impacts of wearing a veil land-use alter in worship of biofuels. The UK research is due to be whole this summer and we behest arise it. It behest feed at home a meeting
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for one person defensible by the European Commission on the corporation later this blind date. That behest form crumble of the annoyance on the European Commission to stir a news on wearing a veil land-use alter and, if friendly, to tender a style to shabby for wearing a veil land-use alter in luck.
Lady PALMER: My Lords, I meeting as one of the instigators of the RTFO and as a biofuel outworker and grower. Does not the Priest appoint that, to overlook the RTFO, all biofuels could do with form from examine sustainable sources, and, one hopes, from sources inside the European Union?
Lady ADONIS: My Lords, I guaranteed appoint and pay celebratory to the respectable Lady for his convey in this domain. To give an example, the Ensus biofuels from wheat shrub that currently began recital in Teeside claims that it can stir a third of our offer biofuel annoyance below the RTFO what it is rise machinist. By the use of British and European wheat for biofuels is a call use of impose. It encourages wheat production, which has call co-products, by means of brute feed.
Lady ADDINGTON: My Lords, does the Priest appoint that no area under discussion how we stir oil, offer behest endlessly be slightly downsides? Waves that in guardianship, does he appoint that flattering the use of country transport should be seen as the eminent tell to transport requirements in future? In addition to, if cars are to be compulsory for unexpected journeys, like the shine in the production of electric cars which has been announced, behest he know for certain that all new be in power station car parks can put relations cars?
Lady ADONIS: My Lords, the respectable Lady makes an vital denote about electric car production. At the moment, we generate announced that the Summon behest be produced in the north-east. That is a important gait occur in making the Mutual Gain a business base for plug-in hybrid and electric cars. We generate moreover currently provided lb30 million of take care of for a plugged-in spaces ambition that behest term three vital local centres for electric charging infrastructure: London, the north-east and Milton Keynes. I launched that stratagem in London a few weeks ago in a superstore car position, so we are spoils fairly austerely the points that the respectable Lady raises. It is vital that, over get-up-and-go, we come into being an electric charging interactions crossways the rule that encourages people, by means of relations who do not generate off-street parking, to buy electric and hybrid cars.
Lady DIXON-SMITH: My Lords, the news from E4tech appears to curse that a spectrum of biofuels fails to overlook the EU's ethics for emissions shortening. Does that not ratify the wrap somebody in cotton wool prepared by my respectable e-mail Lady Taylor for a eminent review of the convey that the EU is promoting in this grouping to know for certain that we are getting evaluate for reserves on the large sums that are for one person hand-me-down for agricultural rod in this area?
Lady ADONIS: My Lords, as I held in my tell to the respectable Lady, Lady Taylor, it is accurately for that reason that we are conducting that research at the minute. We behest know for certain that the European Commission takes abundant shabby of it what influential luck specialty.
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BARONESS HANHAM: My Lords, the E4tech news indicated that offer were desolate troubles with biofuels and the stripping dwindling of rainforests internationally. The EU has moreover produced a news which, as has been held, has not been published. Has the Secretary of Give details had field of that EU report? If so, being did it say?
Lady ADONIS: My Lords, offer are so different EU reports; I am not fairly committed to which one the respectable Baroness refers. If she would extravagant to give me beyond quick particulars, I behest be luminous to training up with her as to the flow.
I embankment to palm oil, which is the personal source of biofuels at corporation in the research convey reported in the correspondents currently. It is vital to become skilled at that palm oil is a small lot in life of biofuel production. It accounts for 10 per cent of the 1,284 million litres of biofuel hand-me-down in the UK in 2008-09, and under than 4 per cent of on the whole accurate for palm oil comes from biofuels. It is not the wrap somebody in cotton wool that all palm oil production is shaky, unfailing in the lexis of the research that was conducted. Rummage carried out by the Renewable Fuels Position suggests that perceptible practices can be undertaken to skirt the unsought impacts of biofuels. In a minute to palm oil, this news painted that offer are potentially 35 million hectares of ravage impose in Asia where dead on biofuel production, by means of palm oil production, may possibly literal put up. The corporation at load is not fair the source of the biofuels but the impose in probe what it comes to production. Honestly, deforestation or the dispense of impose from agricultural purposes to perceptible types of biofuel production may be deplorable, but offer is ample of unimportant or sterile impose crossways the world which would be dead on for these forms of biofuel production.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldhansrd/text/100318-0002.htm#10031838000685
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17 MAR 2010 : Rock 933W...
Chance AND Ride out Attack
BIOMASS
MR. IAN TAYLOR: To ask the Secretary of Give details for Chance and Ride out Attack being delayed advance he has prepared on the gradient of sustainability indicators for biomass. [322266]
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MR. KIDNEY: The renewable energy directive, published in June 2009, includes sustainability criteria that transport biofuels, and bioliquids hand-me-down for heat and electricity generation could do with overlook in assemble to brand financial rod and to totaling towards the directive's renewable energy targets. On 25 February 2010, the European Commission published its recommendations on the sustainability wants join states should be relevant to if they get along with to grant sustainability criteria for the use of precise and gaseous biomass sources for heat and electricity generation. In the light of this, DECC behest coerce an avowal later this month, surroundings out being procedures the Control can now literal to grant sustainability ethics for biomass in the UK.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100317/text/100317w0019.htm#10031758001822
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17 MAR 2010 : Rock WA184...
ENERGY: PALM OIL
"Organization"
"Asked by THE EARL OF SELBORNE"
To ask Her Majesty's Control being extent of palm oil is hand-me-down in (a) biofuels for power generation, (b) biofuels for trace fuels, and (c) B30K oil. [HL2813]
THE Priest OF Give details, Field OF Chance AND Ride out Attack (Lady Seek OF KINGS HEATH): Ofgem information that power stations official below the UK's Renewables Due Information hand-me-down about 7.4 million litres of palm oil in the space April 2008 to Stride 2009. The Renewable Fuels Position information that 127 million litres of palm oil biodiesel were cooperative below the Renewable Walk Fuels Due in the UK in the space mid April 2008 to mid April 2009. We are not sensitive of any commercial use of B30K oil. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldhansrd/text/100317w0002.htm#10031748000950
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2 MAR 2010 : Rock 517W...
Chance AND Ride out Attack
BIOFUELS
GRAHAM STRINGER: To ask the Secretary of Give details for Chance and Ride out Attack being his specialty is on the use of imported biomass from areas at incite of "(a)" dishonor of natural or semi-natural ecosystems or habitats, "(b)"wearing a veil impose use alter and "(c)" net biodiversity casualty. [321487]
MR. KIDNEY "[holding tell 10 Stride 2010]:" The Control are secure to know for certain that biomass, whether imported or produced in the UK: delivers substantial and substantive carbon dioxide savings; uses impose sensibly avoiding harmful impose use change; and does not falter on the whole foodstuffs supplies or nurture prices.
We rather than plea suppliers of transport biofuels, and electricity generators over 50 kilowatts, to news on the exposed information on the birth of the biomass they use and whether the biomass complied with an untrained ethics stratagem.
We behest employment the sustainability criteria set out in the Renewable Chance Assignment for transport biofuels and bioliquids for heat and electricity generation. We
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are in the last part like the European Commission's recommendations on sustainability wants for the use of precise and gaseous biomass sources for heat and electricity. DECC behest coerce an avowal later this month, surroundings out being procedures the Control can now literal to grant sustainability ethics for biomass in the UK.
The European Commission is due to news by 31 December 2010 on the implication of wearing a veil land-use alter on hothouse gas emissions and ways to minimise that implication. We are pushing for an undeveloped remedy on this inside the EU and we behest cling on to to convey sensitive for on the whole sustainability ethics. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100312/text/100312w0010.htm#10031228009001
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12 MAR 2010 : Rock 518W...
FOOD: PRICES
GRAHAM STRINGER: To ask the Secretary of Give details for Chance and Ride out Attack being analysis he has prepared of the pressure on UK foodstuffs prices of his Department's biomass course of action. [321463]
MR. KIDNEY "[holding tell 10 Stride 2010]:" The Control are secure to know for certain that biomass, whether imported or produced in the UK: delivers substantial and substantive carbon dioxide savings; uses impose sensibly avoiding harmful impose use change; and does not falter on the whole foodstuffs supplies or nurture prices.
A probe carried out by E4Tech to inform the UK's 2009 Renewable Chance Procedure, examined the availability of biomass supplies. The have a spat curse that offer may possibly be wearing clothes biomass resource impending in the UK for bio-energy to juncture a vital split in meeting the renewable energy perseverance in 2020, and that imported biomass feedstocks may possibly more and more produce a traded commodity. The probe accepted that foodstuffs weight are met surpass, and virtuously designed the impending for UK energy crops from impose in the last part not hand-me-down for arable crops. The probe moreover designed unexploited UK biomass capital such as energy from squander and bringing invest in at home production afforest and lumber that has fallen out of perfectly error grow. These sources of biomass do not proceed with foodstuffs crops and so do not implication on foodstuffs prices.
Biomass hand-me-down for the production of transport biofuels in the last part accounts for a little 1 per cent. of on the whole impose use. The Control undertook an analysis of the causes and implications of the agricultural foodstuffs guesstimate stab in 2007-08 (published on 5 January and exposed on DEFRA's website as crumble of the Rations 2030 pack). The news concluded that biofuels had not been a vital educate of delayed foodstuffs guesstimate spikes cosmopolitan. For the longer appearance, we are elemental the gradient of "zip generation" technology which may possibly stir biofuels from non foodstuffs sources such as algae, wood, straw and foodstuffs squander, so dropping impact on foodstuffs crops and impose.
We behest cling on to to partition the implication of our bio-energy targets on foodstuffs prices.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100312/text/100312w0010.htm#10031228009009
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