Jatropha-Based Biofuel Experiencing Meteoric Rise; Market Leader Carbon Credited Farming Helps Navigate the Way.

London (PRWEB) February 8, 2010 — Congratulations to NASA on the successful launch of the Endeavour Space Shuttle. It blasted off from Kennedy Space Center taking with it new scientific experiments, including a study of the Jatropha curcas plant, used for producing biofuel, to see if its breeding process can be speeded up for commercial use.

Jatropha is a tenacious plant whose nuts are used to produce biofuels, which are increasingly being referred to as “Green Oil”. It grows well in soil that is otherwise unsuitable for food crops and produces sustainable, renewable energy in contrast to inefficient and harmful crude oil products.

“NASA’s decision to experiment with accelerating the production process of Jatropha based biofuels underscores the validity and urgent need for the production and mass market implementation of biofuels into the marketplace,” said Gregg Fryett, Managing Director of Carbon Credited Farming, which has Green Oil plantations established in a growing number of locations across the globe and celebrates this development as further validation of their efforts to forge an alternative to harmful crude oil churned out by the big oil industry.”

In fact, Jatropha-based biofuels have experienced many market validations in recent days, including:

Carbon Credited Farming has many more deals and developments in its pipeline that will continue to help cultivate and provide leadership to this burgeoning sector of the energy industry.

About Carbon Credited Farming Plc (CCF)

CCF is a UK-based company with Green Oil plantations established in a growing number of global locations, including Asia and Africa. New operations are constantly being added to dramatically expand and meet market demand. The renewable, sustainable fuel resources created by CCF work in parallel to the crude oil industry creating a real and scalable commercial alternative to crude oil and associated routes to market. CCF acts as a plantation developer and/or operator for larger clients with budgeted fuel or investment return requirements. The new forestry programme is an integration of the Carbon market experience and skills of the company with the highly commercial oil plantations being developed internationally.

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When I read the article by Adam Vaughan in yesterdays “Guardian” newspaper entitled “public refuse to fly less to reduce their carbon footprint”, I thought to myself, “Is this really any surprise?

Before you all (well those of you who don’t live in the UK) get all uppity about the fact that we Brits appear to be a bit unreasonable here, let’s just consider for one moment that Britain is an island!  For us to travel anywhere in the world we need to cross water. For the time being we don’t have a bridge to Europe ( I am sure it will come one day).  We do have a tunnel with a train link, but that would become incredibly congested if we all queued up in south eastern England in order to hop across to Europe.  There is also, of course, the option to go across to Europe by sea, but ships use fuel and emit CO2 also don’t they?  In any event, sea travel takes way too long in our fast paced world.

No, none of these options are realistic in terms of satisfying the travelling needs of the great British public.  This doesn’t mean however that we should throw our collective national hands in the air and express complete apathy towards the plight of the environment either.  What is needed here is a practical 21st century approach to planning for the aviation industry, indeed the transportation industry generally.  If people are going to need to travel, and do so by current conventional means, we simply have to find sustainablle and environmentally responsible ways to meet those needs.

For the foreseeable future, our transportation is likely to be fueled by oil and oil derivatives so our focus needs too be on producing sustainable oil supplies which are also kinder to the environment than our current propensity to haul oil out of the earth at an alarmingly increasing rate.  If any of you are interested you could take a look at our Jatropha Green oil Investment Programme, which is one example of how this can be achieved.

Lets get realistic here.  The British public are not the only people in the world who will baulk at the idea of reducing their travel to help the environment.  In fact, from a wider perspective maybe we need to realise that people generally will not change their lifestyles dramatically in order to “save the planet”.  We live in a technological age and I believe that people expect that technology will save the planet for them.  They may do what they can in a small way to improve sustainability (recycle, use low energy products, buy green products) and we are seeing new examples each day of how we are forming new habits of this nature, but it is our Scientists who will beat climate change and produce a sustainable planet in the longer term.

Thoughts anyone?

Colin

A very eco-aware friend of mine recently collared me with a frustrated and aggitated tone.  They were aware of my involvement in raising investments for a Jatropha operator and because of this they were understandably concerned about something they had read.

This is (roughly) what they said to me;

“stating that Jatropha does not compete (in a fairly major way) with food crops is misleading. And clean water – and enough of it – as you will know is an enormous problem in much of the world. For example, India’s environmental charities have documented the replacement of much needed rice paddies with Jatropha and there have been riots over the reclassification of large amounts of grazing commonland as wasteland (thus allowing planting)” (See http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45949 for more info)

Well I do understand why my friend got a little hot under the collar about this, and I feel it is important to point out the following in the defence of the Jatropha Tree.

“I am aware of the problems being experienced in India. I think that what is happening in India is indefensible. To effectively “commandeer” common land which has historically been used for cattle grazing (indeed, any common land or existing land used for food crops) for the planting of Jatropha is quite reprehensible.

What I feel is important to remember here however is that the situation is not the fault of Jatropha, it is the fault of the State Government. Jatropha is a plant which grows well in areas that are not suitable for arable crop production and livestock farming.

So, I believe that any decision about whether or not Jatropha is a good investment may need to be informed in equal measure by the details of the crop itself AND details of the Jatropha Farmer with whom the monies would be invested”.

Thoughts anyone?

Colin Barrett-Treen

Al Gore - Prophet or Profit?

The world is changing, and its changing fast.  So I think we  need to get on board with the concept that being green in the 21st century does not mean you have to be some kind of esoteric philanthropist,  live in hemp clothing,  walk everywhere barefoot (or maybe in sandals) whilst eating only organic foods grown lovingly by your own fair hand in your back yard which you tend each day whilst rasing your arms upward to the sun in adulation, all before you retire to the woods to hug a few trees before supper!

When I read articles such as John Carney’s “Al Gore’s Green-Tinged Conflicts of Interest” from the “Business Insider” blog I despair a little that some people cannot see beyond the commercialisation of going “green”.  What does it matter if someone makes a living, even a good living, out of the environment so long as what they are doing has a net benefit for our planet and all those living on it?  Now, at this point I have to own up to not being an expert on the life, times and business exploits of Al Gore, but I think that articles such as the one linked above raise a bigger issue than Mr Gore’s personal affluent lifestyle.

We  have to start embracing the fact that we all live in a rapidly changing, technology driven world, and thank God for that!  At least, with the level of scientific advancement we have already acheived, there is a chance that we can save our planet from the destructive fate that just a few short years ago we seemed to be heading towards at an ever increasing rate.

So to those who feel that Mr Gore should not profit from his activities in encouraging others to a more sustainable way of living, I say “wake up and smell the free trade coffee.  This is a modern world, a world where business will always be important, people will always strive to achieve a better lifestyle  and technology will continue to move on to improve the quality of life for us all”.

I for one would be very happy if I am fortunate enough to “get rich from environmentalism” as John Carney puts it.  I will continue to sleep very well at night knowing that whatever money I do make from my business, that money will be made by encouraging others to invest in ways that will benefit the whole planet, as well as their wallets!

Thoughts anyone?

Regards,

Colin Barrett-Treen

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