The Globe and Mail

Could the next green fuel be pea-green pond scum?

Supporters think algae could some day be turned into cheap fuel for automobiles and airplanes, and they are betting heavily with infusions of venture capital money and intensive research.

New company responds to a global oil crisis and ethanol’s demands on food stocks by looking to the benefits offered by algae for limiting our CO2 emissions. Examines the potentially huge benefits for harvesting algae to be used as a biofuel.

China warns that Beijing may be at risk of lake algae due to heat.

“In late May, an algae bloom in China’s third biggest lake cut off water supplies to over 2 million residents of Wuxi city in the eastern province of Jiangsu and there have been smaller outbreaks since.”