Recently, we had a thread about ethanol and its environmental effects.
There was a study recently commissioned in Alberta to look at biofuels.
This included the environmental impact of ethanol use and production.
The executive summary is at
http://www.aia.ab.ca/policy/ and the full
text is at
http://www.aia.ab.ca/policy/thebiofuelsfrenzy.pdf
in case there is still some interest.
Tim Lysyk