Just a quick note to let everyone know that all the talk of forming a national body to represent the users of biofuels is turning into something real, slowly but surely.
We've been discussing some of the semantics for a while now and we seem to have some basic agreement on our mission statement, which is meant to embody in the most simple way possible what it is that we expect to be, how we will be it and why.
Australian Biofuel Users is an organisation whose membership is composed of individual biofuel users and local area (or regional) biofuel users groups.
ABU exists to:
ABU will achieve these aims by:
Hopefully we got everything in there, but I expect we may have missed some bits that the rest of you may think is important. I'd like to open this up for comment and suggestion before we finalise it next week and formally incorporate ourselves. So please, comment away.
We've been discussing some of the semantics for a while now and we seem to have some basic agreement on our mission statement, which is meant to embody in the most simple way possible what it is that we expect to be, how we will be it and why.
Mission Statement
Australian Biofuel Users is an organisation whose membership is composed of individual biofuel users and local area (or regional) biofuel users groups.
ABU exists to:
- Serve as a national voice on biofuel for the issues pertinent to its members;
- Promote the increased utilisation of fuels which are economically viable as well as being socially and environmentally responsible;
- Facilitate communication related to biofuels between the membership and the general public or government;
- Represent the membership at conferences, events, or gatherings where biofuels is topic or issue requiring representation; and
- Represent biofuel consumers.
ABU will achieve these aims by:
- Fostering co-operation and communication within the membership;
- Acting as the principal coordinating and lobbying body for the membership;
- Nurturing unity amongst members by providing a forum for their opinions;
- Encouraging the development of policies and strategies within the membership that will lead to increased availability of biofuels;
- Promoting the achievement and maintenance of high standards in biofuel production;
- Encouraging communication between biofuels suppliers, vehicle industry and consumers; and
- Encouraging the exchange of information and communication between the membership and the community.
Hopefully we got everything in there, but I expect we may have missed some bits that the rest of you may think is important. I'd like to open this up for comment and suggestion before we finalise it next week and formally incorporate ourselves. So please, comment away.
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