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Energy&the Environment No. 1 in a series of Mobil reports. p~ . •')> - I ■■.■!■■■ - ..mi..... > t-.qi ■■ ■ 4 lhe gorse bush.-age old problem or brand new resource? " T - Al 5 year old scientist wants to find out. Traditional New Zealand waste paper pulp, could make Limited made these youngsters methods of dealing with gorse either packaging cardboard or a cash award. We don t. at include slashing, spraying and writing paper. present, fancy drinking the gorse burning off. To 15 year old And while successfully from our hills—but to Graeme Graeme Bremner and his friend converting chipped gorse fibre and his team: Cheers! Stephen Brasch this seemed into high quality charcoal a thick This is just one of almost 70 expensive and wasteful. They vapour was given off. They’ve projects Mobil has supported set out to find a useful purpose now managed to condense the over the past six years through for gorse. vapour into an oily tar from which its Environmental Grants Now Graeme’s Ulex they hope to extract a fuel oil. programme. For further Europaeus group has 43 Preliminary research has also information about environmental members working on the project begunintothehydrolysisof sugar research in New Zealand, and throughout NewZealand.They're leading to production of alcohol the financial assistance Mobil mostly 6th and 7th Formers. . . .from gorse. offers, write to "Mobil So far they’ve produced a gorse All this on a shoestring. Which Environmental Grants” pulp which, in conjunction with is why Mobil Oil New Zealand PO. Box 2497. Wellington Mobil