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New Zealand's government has passed legislation requiring oil companies to sell a quota of biofuel each year, says the NZ Herald.
The new law will come into effect on October 1st this year and will force oil companies in the country to make up 0.5 per cent of their sales with biofuel. This percentage will rise by 0.5 per year until 2012.
Principles have been written into the policy encouraging firms to use renewable sources for their biofuels quota, but some are still concerned by the act.
New Zealand's parliamentary commissioner for the environment, Dr Jan Wright, told the NZ Herald: "The amendment to the bill may well have improved it.
"But my concerns about the wisdom of a biofuel obligation at this time still remain."
Anxieties over the Biofuel Act stem from the pressures the obligation may place on the country's farming resources, which play a major part in New Zealand's economy.
Similar worries have been expressed over the US's biofuels mandate, which was last week rejected by the Republican Party.
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