BP commits half a billion on biofuel research
Oil giant BP has awarded $500 million (U.S.) to the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign toward the creation of the Energy Biosciences Institute,which initially will focus its research on biotechnology to produce biofuels out of everything from corn and field waste to switchgrass and algae.
Wow… you don’t see money being thrown around like that in Canada.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca