NORDIC REGION EMBRACING BIOFUEL INNOVATION
December 1st, 2009
BY GERARD O'DWYER
NORDIC governments are pushing ahead with energy-centered reforms to build a significantly larger regional market for the production and sale of biofuels. All these neighbouring countres are expected to follow Sweden's lead and implement policies to eliminate fossil fuel dependence by 2030, Sigbjørn Johnsen (NOTE - SPELLING IS CORRECT), Norway's finance minister, said in an address to the country's Storting (parliament) on December 14.
"What Sweden is doing is very interesting, and as Nordic countries we can learn from their initiatives. ...
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