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Rio Tinto starts biodiesel project in Australia

Developing pongamia seed farms to create biofuel sector

Jonathon McCarthy in a grove of Pongamia trees. Credit: Rio Tinto

Jonathon McCarthy in a grove of Pongamia trees. Credit: Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is in the final stages of buying about 3000 hectares of cleared land near Townsville in North Queensland to develop Pongamia seed farms as part of a biofuels pilot. The project will explore...

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