[Terrapreta] Biochar included in U.S. Farm Bill

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lorenzo,

$3 BILLION would be better.  Maybe $300 BILLION might make a dent.  Only $3 million is an insult.  Ethanol subsidies, oil subsides, automotive company subsidies, and other farm subsides far exceed this by many decimal magnitudes.  A little something is not better than nothing.  This US Senate/House is still to bent on self-preservation in their seats, pork-barrel for their individual states, and on boot licking the oil-moguls of this world to be any good yet!

Regards,

SKB


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Biopact<mailto:biopact at biopact.com> 
  To: terra pretta group<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:51 AM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Biochar included in U.S. Farm Bill


  Hi,
  on May 8, the U.S. Senate-House conference committee on the new Farm Bill announced its final farm bill conference agreement. The bill includes $3 million per year funding for biochar research, development & demonstration.

  I thought this was good news, and wrote a short press release on it (see attachment), to be published by the Biochar Fund.

  Comments and corrections are welcome. Please don't distribute this text yet.

  Best, Lorenzo

  Press release:
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