Why Government Inaction Is Holding Back A Greener Future

It seems like only yesterday that Sir Vince Cable, the then Business Secretary, opened a £350million bioethanol plant on the banks of the River Humber in Hull on a warm day in July 2013.Lauded on that day as the largest of its kind in Europe, the Vivergo Fuels plant turns feed wheat into bioethanol which is blended with petrol to reduce carbon emissions, and high protein animal feed to substitute for less sustainable imported soy. Producing 420million litres of bioethanol a year, it is the