Sentences with phrase «palm oil boom»

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Will the DRC see a palm oil «boom»?

Though often illegal, the forests are cut down both for a booming pulp and paper industry as well as to clear land for oil palm plantations, which supply diverse industries from biofuel to soap to cosmetics.

The expansion of the pellets - to - carbon - credit scheme has the feel of an energy rush akin to what happened in Pennsylvania in the early days of the hydraulic fracturing boom and the destructive palm oil push that affected food prices.

Last month Najib said Malaysia would seek to expand its booming palm oil industry overseas.

Environmental concerns mount as palm oil production grows (5/15/2007) The booming market for palm oil is driving record production but fueling rising concerns over the environmental impact of the supposedly «green» bioenergy source.

The twin boom crops of shrimp and palm oil still fuel far too much wetland loss.

Palm oil has been produced in the region since 1911, and plantation expansion boomed in the 1970s with growth rates of more than 20 % per year.

on the side of every package is a big boom in production of palm oil, on plantations cut from the rainforest home of orangutans.