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Sat 07 Jul 2008Minister abandons biofuel target as doubts grow about benefits
THE GOVERNMENT has abandoned a plan to have biofuels make up 5.75 per cent of all transport fuel by 2010, Minister for Energy Eamon Ryan disclosed yesterday.
The decision to drop the ambitious biofuels targets - which were set as recently as 15 months ago by Mr Ryan's predecessor Noel Dempsey - follows growing doubts about the benefits of biofuels.
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