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June 10, 2008

Plans Underway for First Commercial Oil Crop from Jatropha

Alex Scott

Global Energy Trading Company (Getco; Fort Lauderdale, FL) says it has begun buying up “large tracts of land in Colombia and Peru” on which to grow jatropha, a weed-like shrub, for producing oil suitable for converting into diesel fuel. The...

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