Biofuel requirements to be axed 

Mandatory biofuel requirements are to be axed by the government.

The Energy Minister says legislation passed in September forcing oil companies to use proportional levels of biofuel in their products will be repealed.

Gerry Brownlee says there is no way to prove imported biofuels are sustainably produced and he says the government's view is that using the current arrangement could cause more environmental harm.

Brownlee sees a future for locally produced biofuel but says importing it to create a problem is not what the government wants to do.

The Biofuel bill was been passed into law in September with the then-government aiming to increase the amount of biofuel such as dairy and beef by-products to power motor vehicles.

The bill passed with a 20 vote majority and meant biofuels would have to make up 0.5% of oil companies' sales this year.

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