Samuel Benoit

In December I spent a day in a town further North in Karnataka that sold its soul to the sugar industry – sort of like how Macau has to gambling or Ottawa to government. One can assume Ugar was chosen for its name’s similarity to the name of the product in question.

I went there to learn about how the factory is earning carbon credits for the green energy generation meeting a portion of its factory’s energy use that is based on sugar cane residues as a biofuel. Click here to see where India’s sugar comes from.