So taxpayers funded a 40 MGY wood-based ethanol plant and they are instead getting a 4 MGY wood-based methanol plant.

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Fire crews are still visiting a wood recycling plant in Hertfordshire, more than two months after a blaze at the site.

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He reports that Essen, Germany-based power company RWE commissioned a wood pellet plant in Georgia to produce 750, 000 metric tons annually for RWE power stations in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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The company then breeds trees together to combine such things as salt tolerance and wood quality in a single plant.

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Power giant Drax plans to burn huge amounts of wood instead of coal at its North Yorkshire plant over the next few years.

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The recycling plant blaze, in which about 8, 000 tonnes of wood and waste caught fire, was put out in November and is still under investigation.

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