Eco Villians(Part 4)by | 29-08-2011 00:10 |
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![]() NESTE OIL
_ Finnish energy corporation - leading buyter of palm oil and world?s largest producer of biofuels. ->growing European demand for palm oil accelerates rainforest destruction and displaces ever more local communities in Indonesia and Malaysia. -> This production requires chemicals that poison workers, villages, soil, water, fauna, and flora. -> great demand for crop land drives up prices for other agricultural products, including food--thus jeopardizing global food safety -> destroys the habitats of endangered species such as the orangutan. -Carbon balance of Neste Oil?s fuel quite devastating—worse than that of ordinary diesel - company claims that the oil it is buying from IOI is sustainable. But IOI is involved in all manner of illicit activities such as illegal logging, slash and burn clearing of forests and the destruction of orangutan habitats.
"energy corporations must direct their resources to the development of truly sustainable raw materials and other forms of energy."
Source: Greenpeace
By the way, I saw a short documentary on this topic, and how the production of palm oil was devestating the habitats of the orangutan :( |