Biofuel Crops

(Fox News) - Another fast-expanding industry is the growing of crops for biofuels. But that has led to incidents like the burning of Asian forests to clear land for palm oil and the stripping of Amazon vegetation to plant soya and sugar for ethanol.

Tomorrow a Dutch legislative committee will unveil stringent criteria to make sure that the biofuel industry does not do more harm than good. The proposed guidelines will prohibit deforestation, competition with food crops, reduction of soil or water supplies and the displacement of local populations in order to grow biofuel crops.