Biofuel-Averse State Oil companies Get Tough Love in the Indian Government’s 2010-11 Budget
Joelle Dent (Biofuels Digest) In India, the state oil companies were discovered to have systematically defied the government’s biofuel blending mandates with the help of paid insiders in the oil ministry. As a result the government not only lost face but had to deal with public interest law suits by environmentalists, doubts about its capacity to carry out its renewable energy policy, a breach of trust such that three government ministers had to be sent out to negotiate the price of sugar for ethanol producers, and Prime Minister Singh vowed to prosecute every one of the non-compliant companies. READ MORE


