Put a Beet in Your Tank… BP Plans UK’s Biggest Green Fuel Plant

The Guardian – BP has joined forces with one of Europe’s biggest food groups to build what they claim will be Britain’s largest “green” petrol plant using sugar beet from East Anglia. The move, designed to kickstart a much larger programme involving hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, comes as environmental campaigners declare war on the UK’s largest traditional power plant, Drax.

BP and Associated British Foods, along with US chemical group DuPont, say the biobutanol facility at Wissington, Norfolk, will help use up agricultural surpluses and prepare for government-imposed targets on greener fuels. The plant will cost
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