When a successful entrepreneur tackles global warming, food shortage, and the ever-growing demand for oil, the resulting business is like nothing the world has seen.

Bedford Biofuels Inc. is poised to become the largest producer of biodiesel in the world – all through private funding from investment in Western Canada. At a time when most investments are making a dismal return, Bedford Biofuels’ investors stand to make a double-digit return on their investment.

David McClure, Bedford’s President and CEO, an entrepreneur with a long track record of success, has applied his business-building skills to help solve the international energy crisis.

“The price of petroleum fuel is rising steadily as its supply is diminishing, “says McClure. “Internationally, the demand for oil is growing daily. Oil has paved the way of industrialization and is largely responsible for the strong economy in Western Canada.

“Let’s face it; we are not ready to park our vehicles in order to save the environment and industry is, directly or indirectly, dependent on oil. So, let’s create a new kind of oil and let’s not use food crops which contribute to further food shortage and increased food prices.”

With aspirations to become the biggest biofuel producer in the world, Bedford Biofuels’ focus is on the production of completely renewable, sustainable, clean-burning, carbon-neutral liquid biofuel made from jatropha.

Jatropha Curcas, commonly referred to as the diesel plant, is a subtropical, drought-resistant shrub able to grow in challenging environments. It produces nuts which are extremely high in oil content. The oil that is produced by simply pressing these nuts is combustible in most diesel engines without processing. With minimal additional processing, crude jatropha oil added to petroleum diesel becomes biodiesel.

MIT’s Technology Review recently published research findings by Alok Adholeya, director of (TERI) Biotechnology and Management of Bioresources, "Jatropha is a one-stage conversion [to biodiesel]," Adholeya says, explaining that converting the plant oil to an oil that can be burned as fuel requires only one stage of heating and mixing with methanol. The resulting fuel, he says, "is a very good quality diesel that can be used in any transport vehicle."

Bedford co-founder, Gary Hartnett, says, “Prior to meeting Mr. McClure, we had assembled a team of world experts (which are now all part of Bedford Biofuels) in producing Jatropha-based biodiesel. We had assembled the best foresters, plantation managers, agronomists and research scientists. What was missing was an entrepreneur who could help create investment capital and make this the immense opportunity it is.”

Jatropha is not a food crop and, thus, does not contribute to the controversy of food versus fuel. It also helps replenish the soil it grows in and is not a challenge to local water supplies. The subtropical areas that are most suitable to farming jatropha are also some of the poorest areas where food security is a primary concern for local people. Therefore, along with its core business, Bedford Biofuels has developed a complete non-profit sector to its company, whereby producing added long-term food security, education and health care.

Jatropha biodiesel is on its way to being a certified aviation diesel. According to Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP), “The aviation industry is interested in the possible savings and price stability offered by alternative fuels…And, if oil demand outpaces supplies, jet fuel availability could become a constraint on growth.” CAEP also sees alternative [jet] fuel as a way to deal with some environmental issues such as air quality. On December 30, 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand in a joint initiative between Air New Zealand, Boeing, Rolls Royce and Honeywell’s UOP, jatropha diesel was tested in the world’s first commercial aviation test flight powered by jatropha diesel specially blended for aviation applications.

McClure says, “To reward our investors, our workers and to fund our humanitarian projects, we see it as our obligation and responsibility to be highly profitable. With responsible use of resources, we can solve the oil shortage and meet global, alternative fuel mandates. More capitalism is the solution to creating food security and the greatest input to propel the environmental movement. We are making a difference in both – food security and the environment – by producing biofuel.”

Contact: Lissa Swihart

VP Communications

Bedford Biofuels Inc.

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