Mexico Plans Ethanol Push to Reduce Pollution
(Latin American Herald Tribune) The Mexican government said it will invite tenders next month for a contract to produce 176 million liters (46 million gallons) of ethanol for use as a transport fuel, part of a plan to curb pollution and diversify the country’s energy mix. State-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will launch the bidding round, which will be concluded in December, Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel said Tuesday.
The plan will help reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere and guarantee the development of Mexico’s food industry, Kessel said during the National Peasant Confederation’s First Economic and Financial Corporate Anniversary.
The project initially will be carried out in the western state of Jalisco, with 65,000 hectares of sugarcane to be used as the source of the biofuel. The goal is to produce 176 million liters of an ethanol-gasoline blend annually. READ MORE
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