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Sep 17, 2014

ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA: Oberon Fuels's / * Canada: TATRO's

* California - DME receives EPA’s first biogas-based fuel approval under the renewable fuel standard

San Diego,CAL,USA -Global Newswire -September 3, 2014: -- Oberon Fuels Inc., the first company to announce plans to commercialize biogas-based dimethyl ether (“DME”) fuel production in North America, announced today that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has approved its DME for inclusion under the Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”). Oberon’s biogas-based DME process resulted in an approximate 68% reduction in greenhouse gases when compared to baseline diesel fuel... “One of the exciting attributes of DME is that, at its core, DME is a simple fuel,” according to Oberon’s co-founder and COO Elliot Hicks. “It requires a simple diesel engine and has simple propane-like handling properties” ... The transportation industry, particularly the heavy-duty sector, now has another option under the RFS for a domestically produced, renewable fuel...


* Ontario/Canada - Truck seller becomes bio-fuel producer 

Chatham,ONT,CAN -Canadian Shipper –Sep 15, 2014: -- A used truck dealer plans on turning waste wood by-products into diesel fuel... TATRO sells both parts and Class 8 trucks to fleets in Canada, the USA and around the world, but the Chatham, Ont.-based company has also invested in other businesses... TATRO it's also one of the backers of Innovative Hydrogen Solutions, which has created an on-board hydrogen delivery system designed to improve the fuel efficiency of truck engines... TATRO Trucks Ltd. corporate financial controller Daryl Dawson said, turning the leftover woody residue from sawmills into something of value is especially appealing when compared with the demands of other bio-fuels like ethanol, which requires acres of prime farmland devoted to growing corn for the production process, rather than allowing those acres to be used for planting crops for human consumption... The company TATRO is investing in, celluFuel Inc., is setting up a test facility in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia at ReNova Scotia Bioenergy Inc.—the former site of the Bowater Mersey Paper Company Ltd.—which the province has been operating since 2012. Dawson describes the facility as incubator and innovation centre...

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