CONTENTS - May 2010 - Issue 7
MARKET BRIEFING
- Forest Biomass and Wood Pellet Price Indications
- Biomass & Pellet Market Analysis
- Forest Biomass Feedstock Availability – Higher US lumber prices have boosted sawmill operating rates, but the outlook is cloudier
- Energy and Carbon Market Briefing - Financial jitters send oil prices lower, but coal and natural gas prices climb sharply
- The FEm Biomass Cofiring Index
- Market profile: Japan has ambitious plans to boost the productivity of its under-utilised forest resources
INVESTMENT & TECHNOLOGY
- Vattenfall invests in a new pellet mill in New Brunswick, Canada
- A pellet mill in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to supply European utilities
- The potential of biotechnology in the wood energy sector
- Investment and technology in brief... Canada, Denmark, UK, USA, Belgium, Canada
POLICY & LEGISLATION
- The US Senate considers a new climate and energy bill
- A separate bill broadens the definition of renewable biomass
- EPA requires biomass plants to apply for GHG emission permits
- EU Commission proposes deeper cuts in GHG emissions
- Policy & legislation in brief... Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom
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