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

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Sean

The Research Community could do a lot with $3 million.

What would be good projects on which money could be sensibly spent? How 
would you suggest that anything more than $3 million could be sensibly 
spent?

Best wishes,

Kevin

Sean K. Barry wrote:
> 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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