Brazil biofuel: Shell axes 'illegal' sugar cane plan
BBC Online, 14 Jun 2012A biofuels company set up in Brazil by oil giant Shell has signed a landmark agreement giving up plans to buy sugar cane grown on indigenous lands.
The company, Raizen, was obtaining some of the raw material for ethanol from farmers who encroached on the lands of the Guarani people in Mato Grosso do Sul state. ... Read full article

