Newport City Council has refused a biofuel

City casts out palm oil power plant bid

http://www.richimag.co.uk/biofools/ , Planning, 18 September 2009

Newport City Council has refused a biofuel power plant that would have run on so-called sustainable palm oil.

The authority came to the decision over health fears and the environmental impacts of the scheme, to the delight of its opponents. The plant at Newport's South Dock would have used palm..

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