Energy in Singapore megatonnes (the top 9th country, with a population of 59.89 million). The biggest palm oil based diesel plant in the world, 800,000 t/a production, started operations in Singapore at the end of 2010 by Neste Oil from Finland. The plant requires almost a million tonnes of raw material annually from the oil palm "Elaeis guineensis", equivalent to 2,600–3,400 km oil palm plantation. Greenpeace demonstrated in November 2010 in Espoo Finland by hanging an orangutan puppet in front of Neste Oil, saying that Neste Oil endangers the rainforest ecosystem. According to UNEP the majority of new palm oil plantations take place
Wesson cooking oil Wesson cooking oil Wesson cooking oil is a brand of vegetable oil manufactured in Memphis, Tennessee and sold by ConAgra Foods. Historically, Wesson was cottonseed oil, but as of 2009 the products sold under the Wesson brand are oil mixtures that may include canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil or sunflower oil. Wesson was originally a trademark of the "Southern Oil Company", named after David Wesson (1861–1934), a food chemist at the firm who, in 1899 developed a novel process for deodorizing cottonseed oil, producing the first commercial all-vegetable shortenings from cottonseeds. This new product was marketed as "Snowdrift". The