Australia has reached a turning point in the push for a national biofuels industry, with CANEGROWERS joining industry leaders at Federation Mall today to build on the Federal Government’s cleaner fuels announcement and help ensure the opportunity…
Australia should start building its biofuels industry now – creating regional jobs, investment and fuel security at home instead of sending Australian dollars and opportunities overseas, CANEGROWERS CEO Dan Galligan has said.
The Australian sugarcane industry’s peak grower and research bodies have joined forces in a bid to prevent a critical weed-control tool disappearing from cane farms before practical alternatives are ready.
Queensland’s move to kick–start a biofuels industry is a major step towards unlocking the full potential of the state’s sugarcane industry, CANEGROWERS CEO Dan Galligan says.
Just weeks out from harvest, Australia’s sugarcane industry has around 5 per cent of the fuel required to complete the crush.
CANEGROWERS has welcomed the release of a parliamentary report on a sugarcane-based bioenergy industry in Queensland, thanking the committee for listening to growers and recognising the role the industry can play in strengthening Australia’s fuel and energy security.
CANEGROWERS has slammed the outcome for sugar in the long-awaited Australia–EU Free Trade Agreement as a complete failure, saying it fails cane farming families and Australian sugar manufacturers and falls well short of what producers had been seeking.
Concerned Proserpine cane growers will attend a public Energy Forum today hosted by Coexistence Queensland amid mounting unease over a proposed wind farm and what it could mean for the local sugarcane industry.