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Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 24 Aug 2007, Wheels & Car Care, p. 6

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6 WHEELS August 24 2007 Making eco-friendly car fuel may be harmful to the environment Researchers at the University of Leeds and the World Land Trust have warned that growing biofuel crops to make ecofriendly car fuel could actually be harmful to the environment. Large areas of land in the developing world are being converted to grow crops such as sugar cane and palm oil as part of the global rush to make biofuels which are widely thought to produce less carbon dioxide than conventional transport fuels. But scientists at the University of Leeds and the World Land Trust have found that up to nine times as much carbon dioxide will be emitted using biofuels compared to conventional petrol and diesel because biofuel crops are typically grown on land which is burnt and reclaimed from tropical forests. The report concludes that protecting and restoring natural forests and grasslands is a much better way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Study co-author Dominick Spracklen of the School of Earth and the Environment at the University of Leeds says: "This study shows that if your primary concern is reducing carbon dioxide emissions, growing biofuels is not the best way to do it. "In fact it can have a perverse impact elsewhere in the world. The amount of carbon that is released when you clear forests to make way for the biofuel crop is much more than the amount you get back from growing biofuels over a 30year period. "You can't convert your car to run on biofuel and keep on driving and think that everything will be OK. You are turning a blind eye to what's happening around the world and that in fact, you could be making things much worse." The report is co-authored by Renton Righelato of the World Land Trust, a charity that protects and restores threatened habitats around the world ñ and is published in Science this month. 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