Government Slow On Renewable Energy

Handel Callende (centre) explaining features of the new US$40 000 Byomatic 400 processor that can produce 200 gallons of biodiesel a day. Looking on are employees Parmeshwar Bissoon (left) and Teij Hutchinson. (Photo credit - The Nation)

 

 

We congratulate Hander Callender on his most incentive and promising venture. With a vision he took the bull by the horns and conceptualized a biodiesel operation, Native Sun NRG, with the primary purpose of reducing the costs of fuel to small business and vehicles owners.

Unlike some businesses that go begging to government for everything under the sun, a little exposure in the media landed him a deal with an American company with like interest resulting in a new company called Amelot Oil Barbados Ltd.

However as is usually the case, governments are always slow when it comes to these sort of things. By that I mean small man operations. The kind of thing that will made a different in people’s lives. Oh wait. No big dollars there. Never mind the the big speech on increasing the % of entrepreneurs in Barbados. A little encouragement goes a long way. Makes a man feel good. Expressing keen interest is not sufficient. Let’s hear publicly government endorsing of such a project and be serious on reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Anything short of that would give bajans the wrong impression!

BTW, did anyone close to Mr Callender read the article on the blog  or is the Nation just being facetious?

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• Biodiesel Company Sucessful Trial = 100gals Refined Biodiesel

Biodiesel Company Sucessful Trial = 100gals Refined Biodiesel

First Production Trial Ends in Successful Production of Refined Biodiesel; Company Expects Regular Production to Begin Shortly

Amelot Oil Barbados Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of Amelot Oil, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Biomatic 400, an important component of the Company’s biodiesel refining facilities, has been cleared by Barbados customs and is at its new home at the Future Centre in Saint Thomas, Barbados, marking the completion of the Group’s Barbados refining facility.

The Company is pleased to announce that on Friday, August 8th, 2008 the first production trial of its Barbados refining facility ended in the successful production of approximately one hundred gallons of refined biodiesel.

“We are very pleased to have arrived at this milestone,” said Handel Callender, General Manager of Amelot Oil Barbados. “The successful completion and testing of our Barbados refining facility means that in time, the Company will be able to increase output of refined biodiesel to a level which will one day satisfy this small island’s demand for affordable, clean energy,” Mr. Callender continued.

“The successful launch of our Barbados refining and production facilities means that the Company can continue with the business of securing feedstock — in this case, used cooking oil — and pursuing relationships with potential consumers of Amelot biodiesel,” said Aziz Hirji, Chief Executive of Amelot Holdings, Inc., (Pink Sheets:AMHD) the parent company of Amelot Oil, Inc.

Hirji said additional staff have been hired at the Company’s refining facility and he expects regular production at the facility to begin in September, 2008.

Source – Amelot Holdings Inc/Primenewswire

• First Biodiesel Company In Barbados Off To A Start

First Commerical Biodiesel Company In Barbados Off To A Start

News release by Amelot Holdings Inc. distributed by PrimeNewswire

Amelot Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AMHD) is pleased to announce that the necessary paperwork has been completed, and Amelot’s Barbados subsidiary is now fully operational.

Amelot Oil Barbados Ltd. is now an officially registered business on the island of Barbados. The company is making tremendous progress as it continues to build a solid corporate foundation. Handel Callender, General Manager Barbados, is finalizing Amelot’s lease agreement with Counterpart Caribbean at the Future Centre. This agreement will establish Amelot’s base of operations. The partnership between the Future Centre and Amelot Oil will only further strengthen as each party continues its pursuit and commitment to the education and practice of good environmental principles. The company is also in the process of finalizing its official strategic proposal for the St. Thomas Parish Ambassador’s Program. Amelot is looking to have this proposal finalized and submitted in the coming weeks.

“I am very pleased with the progress of the Barbados Project,” stated Aziz Hirji, President of Amelot Holdings, Inc. “Everything is going as planned. Our goal is to build a solid reputation and presence on the island of Barbados. Mr. Callender has done an excellent job of creating awareness and excitement about the project throughout the island. I am looking forward to updating all of our shareholders on the continued progress of our newest subsidiary.”

About Amelot Holdings, Inc.:

Amelot Holdings, Inc. ( http://www.amelotholdings.com), a publicly traded company, is a diversified holding company that has identified Bio-diesel as a $20 billion emerging market. Amelot plans to have a significant market share in growing low cost feedstocks to supply the growing demand for biodiesel, to reduce energy dependency of fossil fuels, to help reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil supplies and reduce the impact of energy on our environment.

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Source – Market Watch

Can Barbadian Biodiesel Company Save Us From Rising Energy Bills?

Barbadian entrepreneur Handel Callender is in the right place at the right time. With raising energy prices worldwide having a negative impact locally, the Barbadian who operates a biodiesel company, Native Sun NRG, have seen his vision to expand the one man operation taken off. Native Sun NRG is being bought over by a US company – Amelot Holdings Inc, a publicly traded company incorporated in the state of Wyoming and headquartered in New York, US.

Handel Callender who was featured in a March 2007 Nation’s [original story] article operates the first commerical biodiesel company in Barbados or 100% Bajan renewable fuel as he calls it. The article states that he was in the final stages of negotiations with an unnamed America company for a $20,000 plus investment which would have resulted in more equipment, hiring of additional staff and expansion of production to more than 300 gallons a week. Currently the company produces 100 gallons a week.

According to Mr Callender Barbados has the potential to produce a thousand times that amount given that an estimated 500 000 gallons of used oil is generated each year, which could be collected for recycling into about 400 000 gallons of biodiesel.

400 000 gallons that can greatly reduce the Transport Board fuel bill.

The managing director who primary goal is to service the small business sector with cheaper fuel was quoted as saying that “The most important thing I would like to see happen is to use bio-diesel not for something as inefficient as transport, but for energy generation in small businesses. A lot of them are getting hit really hard by the increase in energy prices, and if I could find a way to make biodiesel cheaper than regular diesel and supply it to small businesses so they can become sustainable . . . that would be great.”

The US, through Congress, has mandated that 25 per cent of corn production should go to biofuel production. What this has done is reduced the supply of corn for food consumption, placing pressure on the price. Now why isn’t biodiesel being push more as an alternative than ethanol on the world stage?.

Amelot a diversified holding company identified Biodiesel as a US$20b emerging market had this to say.

“We feel this addition to our company will provide us and our shareholders with the necessary tools to be truly successful in the biodiesel industry,”

Generating enought of this “waste” to reduce this country fuel import bill by 10 to 20%?”. Anything is possible.

British Columbia recently pass legislation for renewable fuels to comprise 5% of all diesel and gasoline sold in B.C by 2010.

In February 24 2008, a biofuel- powered commercial aircraft took off from London’s Heathrow Airport and touch down in Amsterdam on a demonstration flight . It was the world’s first and was hailed as a step towards “cleaner” flying.

Hey! I will be first in line to get some of that 100% Bajan renewable fuel for my vechicle. Anything to make my diesel vechicle more efficient and with less pollution in de air.

Further reading -

Barbadian Biodiesel Company Snapped Up By US Interests

Africa And India Team Up To Ensure Food Security

India and Africa vowed yesterday to strive together for food security and called on the western world to rethink diverting huge food stocks for bio fuel, creating shortages and driving up prices in poorer countries.

Rising food and oil prices threaten many African economies and are a headache for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, which faces national elections next year.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned yesterday that high food prices and shortages would continue in the short term, making some poorer countries vulnerable to food riots.

While the move to turn food into bio fuel has benefited a handful of grain-surplus African countries such as Uganda, speakers at the {2 day }summit {in New Delhi India} blamed the tactic for skyrocketing prices and shortages.

“It is a challenge in the sense that there is this problem of shortage of food in a number of countries and there is a problem of high prices,” Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Tanzanian president and head of the African Union, said.

“These days the farms have been put to bio fuel production creating a shortage of food and therefore creating a problem of high prices.” He said Africa just needed to solve its agricultural production problems to produce enough that could not only feed the continent, but also provide for the world.

{Adapted from International Press Reports}