Dear Andrew
After reading your reply to our question, we had a good giggle and
decided that your gooogle search wasn't that good.
Why is that? Did you actually read what I had linked to?
Mr. Tim Heard of the CSIRO Entomology department in Brisbane has
assured us that it is only
Integrated management of bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia L.)
in north Queensland... that is being controlled.
Ah, as he said, Northern Queensland. That does not include Western
Australia and the Northern Territory. If you read the stuff about
Western Australia, you are not allowed to move either the plant or the
seeds, and also any machinery/livestock that may have been contaminated.
In the Northern Territory, it is listed as a class A/C noxious weed, and
is to be eradicated. It is also NOT to be introduced into the NT. With
these two situations, you are ruling out a vast amount of cheap land. I
did not mention Queensland in my initial reply as your signature
indicated you where in Western Australia.
I don't think the rest of the world would be planting Jatropha Curcus
in such great quantities if
there was any danger of it becoming a pest.
Obviously you are not aware of what a "pest" is in these cases. The Box
Hawthorn in the UK is a great plant, provides wind breaks, shelter etc
for stock, but in Victoria it is regarded as a pest. In the UK it has
natural preditors, in Victoria it does not, hence it has gone beserk,
with great efforts to eradicate it - good in one place, pest in another.
I have copied the Email that I received from Mr. Tim Heard.
Thank you for your email. I am aware that J. curcas is a potentially
very important source of biofuel. J. curcas is a minor weed only in
Australia so our efforts at biocontrol are only aimed at J.
gossypiifolia, which is a serious weed here and also in many other
tropical countries. We always test our biocontrol agents against
curcas too. If an agent against gossypiifolia attacked curcas we would
not suggest that it be used where there is interest in developing a
curcas industry. The only agent released in Australia so far, the
bellyache bush jewel bug, does not attack curcas at all.
Regards,
Tim Heard
CSIRO Entomology
120 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly 4068, Brisbane, Australia
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telephone 07 3214 2843
And this e-mail we recieved today:
Crystal,
We would be happy to look at the possibility of purchasing jatropha
oil from you for use in biodiesel production, depending of course on
the economics. You could either sell the nuts to a commercial
crushing facility, or pay for them to be toll-crushed, or else you
could otherwise install capacity for crushing the nuts on-farm.
Please provide me with your expected annual production volume,
expected sale price per tonne, and your location.
Regards,
Mike Jureidini
Biofuels Consultant
Australian Farmers Fuel (SAFF)
ph 1800 000 609
fax 1300 660 664
[2]www.farmersfuel.com.au
Perhaps if you really want to know about Biodeisel you should be
looking at other countries and learning from them as they are surely
along way ahead of Australia. Try our
suggestion: [3]www.biodieseltoday.com [4]www.jatrophaworld.org
Need we say more?
Just out of interest, who wrote the last couple of lines? Was it you
Crystal or Mike Jureidini? If it was you, then I consider it to be quite
rude. I have provided you with information and it appears that you have
not even read it. In terms of telling me that if I want to know about
biodiesel I should be reading what other countries are doing, then I
could counter asking about your knowledge of photobioreactors. If you
know about these and what they CAN be used for then I think you would
understand that I know a bit about biodiesel. I'll just reiterate what I
said above, good in one place, pest in another.
References
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. javascript:ol('http://www.farmersfuel.com.au');
3. http://www.biodieseltoday.com/
4. http://www.jatrophaworld.org/
In closing, I would like to say that if Tim Heard's statements hold
true all over Australia and I have misread the WA and NT stance on J.
curcas then all well and good. I would be likely to look into it myself,
as I initially said but the fact that it is regarded as a pest gives me
cause for concern.
Regards,
Andrew Lowe
p.s. Could you please better differentiate your comments from the people
you are quoting as it is hard to tell who said what in your email.
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