Blockade of Marseille sends wholesale price up as raised fuel duty adds to UK consumers’ burden. Tankers waiting off Marseille, southern France, yesterday as port workers continue their strike to protest against French harbour reform and the planned restructuring of the Marseille port. Photograph: Claude Paris/AP
GENeco, part of the Wessex Water group of companies, has a launched a six-month trial running a VW Beetle on methane gas derived from the sewage treatment process at its Bristol works in Avonmouth. The ‘Bio-Bug’ is running on waste flushed down the toilet of homes in Bristol to see if methane from sewage sludge [...]
Climate change minister Greg Barker has described biomass as the UK’s “single most important” renewable energy resource on account of its versatility in producing heat, electricity and transport biofuels. Speaking at the Renewable Energy Association’s (REA) annual bioenergy conference and exhibition in Warwickshire last week (October 6), Mr Barker said that the biomass sector was [...]
