Renewable Energy Biofuel News Archive 1

25 August 2005 - £1m investment to fuel town port Plans for a £1m storage tank at an East Yorkshire port have been announced by Britain's largest port operator.
BBC News Humber
22 July 2005 - Out of the chip pan into the car Lovers of deep-fried food in Leeds are being encouraged to have their old cooking oil turned into an environmentally-friendly car fuel.
BBC News West Yorkshire
22 June 2005 - County bids for radical fuel site Kent is bidding for a United Nations fuel-from-crops complex that it is claimed would create hundreds of jobs.
BBC News Kent
10 May 2005 - Farmer grows grass for green fuel A Northamptonshire farmer has become one of the first in the region to grow a crop of grass that will be turned into electricity.
BBC News Northamptonshire
25 April 2005 - Hundreds object to energy plant Hundreds of people have objected to plans for a massive power station which burns grass and rubbish in north Devon.
BBC News Devon
4 April 2005 - Green biodiesel production starts Commercial production of green fuel at the UK's first large scale biodiesel plant has now started.
BBC News Scotland
24 March 2005 - Biofuel firm to boost production A Norfolk-based company which produces greener fuel has entered into a joint venture to increase UK production of the fuel by 500%.
BBC News Norfolk
21 March 2005 - Port fuel plant to boost economy A £10m biodiesel fuel plant, said to be the UK's largest, is to be built on the Humber estuary, it has been revealed.
BBC News Humber
11 January 2005 - Green fuels plant set for Humber A biodiesel fuel firm has announced plans to build a new £10m plant alongside the River Humber.
BBC News Humber
22 November 2004 - Greener fuel could cut emissions Emissions in Somerset could be cut following the introduction of greener fuel for council-owned buses and cars.
BBC News Somerset
19 October 2004 - UK boost for biomass fuel crops The UK is to encourage the production of biomass, crops grown specially for use as environmentally friendly fuels.
BBC News
14 October 2004 - Biodiesel fuel plant opens A plant which can convert vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel is opening in west Wales later.
BBC News Wales
4 October 2004 - Second power plan revealed Proposed plans for a second power station at Winkleigh in north Devon have come to light.
BBC News Devon

3 October 2004 - Plant protesters to erect crane People in north Devon fighting plans for a £40m biomass power station are organising a visual stunt on Sunday.
BBC News Devon
2 October 2004 - Waste wood could be fuel source More than 14,000 homes in the north-east of England could be powered by wood which is needlessly thrown away, new research claims.
BBC News England
26 August 2004 - Sunflower oil boost to car future UK scientists have developed a process for making hydrogen from sunflower oil which could prove an important future source of eco-friendly energy.
BBC News
13 July 2005 - Green fuels set for breakthrough Motorists who feel a pang of guilt every time they fill their tanks with pollutant-laden fossil fuels may soon find that they no longer have an excuse for not switching to cleaner alternatives.
BBC News
14 June 2004 - Wood chips to fuel remote village A remote Northumberland village is to become the first in England to take its power from wood chips.
BBC News Northumberland
25 March 2004 - Ministers back biodiesel plant Scotland's first commercial biodiesel producer has been backed by the Scottish Executive.
BBC News Scotland
18 March 2004 - Power station branching out The biggest coal-fired power station in the UK is believed to be first to use willow trees as renewable energy.
BBC News North Yorkshire
14 March 2003 - Buses go green with biodiesel Cornwall's roads are about to become more environmentally-friendly with the introduction of greener fuel for some buses and taxis.
BBC News England
10 March 2004 - Excrement energy boost for future Scientists in the United States have found a way to convert human waste into renewable energy.
BBC News
21 August 2003 - Support for wood chip heating A scheme to heat 20 homes and a primary school in mid Wales with a wood chip boiler has won government backing.
BBC News Wales
16 July 2003 - Power plant deadline Critics of a plan to build a controversial power plant close to the Irish border in County Monaghan have to register their objections by Wednesday.
BBC News Northern Ireland
24 January 2003 - Grow trees to drive cars The best way to make the UK's road transport green could be a massive tree-growing programme, researchers say.
BBC News

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