Biodiesel Week

December 7, 2011

RMA announces pilot crop insurance program for camelina The USDA's Risk Management Agency has developed a pilot program to insure camelina. The program, which will be available in selected counties in Montana and North Dakota for the 2012 crop year, will have a sales closing date of Feb. 1, 2012. READ MORE SHARE
Metro acquires Rocky & Marciano Fuel Oil on Long Island Brooklyn-based Metro Fuel Oil continued its expansion on Long Island to better serve its residential heating oil and Bioheat customers by acquiring Rocky & Marciano Fuel Oil, a family company with more than 100 years of experience in heating. READ MORE SHARE
	FCStone, Lee Enterprises form strategic alliance FCStone's Renewable Fuels Group's expertise covers the entire spectrum of activities related to renewable fuels, from a full understanding of inputs such as oilseeds, fats, energy and grains, to outputs including biodiesel, glycerin and more. READ MORE SHARE
Greenleaf secures feedstock, offtake agreement with Tenaska Greenleaf Biofuels and Tenaska BioFuels have signed an exclusive, multiyear agreement for Tenaska to supply feedstock to and sell biodiesel from Greenleaf Biofuels' 10 MMgy production facility in New Haven, Conn., currently under construction. READ MORE SHARE
Poet corn oil enough for 12 MMgy of biodiesel by year's end Poet owns 1.7 billion gallons of ethanol refining capacity and the company has been selling its trademarked Voila corn oil into the biodiesel and feed markets out of its 56 MMgy Poet Biorefining-Hudson facility in Hudson, S.D., for nearly a year. READ MORE SHARE
Calif. grease theft crackdown pilot program underway Grease theft isn't new but reports of a recent uptick in activity is cause for concern to biodiesel producers who rely on used cooking oils or yellow grease, an upgraded, commoditized version that can be used as animal feed or biodiesel feedstock. READ MORE SHARE
	Ky. power station to implement algae carbon capture project The staff at East Kentucky Power Co-op's Dale Power Station in Winchester, Ky., is excited about a new project led by the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research that will bring algae photobioreactors to the co-op's power station. READ MORE SHARE
Blue Sun to offer biodiesel at Knoxville, Tenn., terminal Blue Sun Biodiesel announced that it plans to deliver mechanically blended biodiesel to the Cummins Terminal located in Knoxville, Tenn., from a heated 546,000-gallon biodiesel tank through three of the six lanes at the terminal's truck loading rack. READ MORE SHARE