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Scotsman.com Business - Food, Drink & Agriculture - Green light for biodiesel plant: "Green light for biodiesel plant
FORDYCE MAXWELL

PLANNING approval has been given for a biodiesel factory at Rosyth, with an annual potential to handle 250,000 tonnes of oilseed rape.
That is more than double Scotland's present oilseed production, 120,000 tonnes from this harvest.
But John Forbes of East Coast Viners, is one of the main partners in the proposed development, said of planning approval by Fife Council: 'This is another welcome part of the jigsaw, but there is no precise timetable to build the plant.'
He did not think that the recent dramatic fall in world oil prices had made biodiesel production a less attractive proposition.
Government, he said, had made it clear that biodiesel from crops was still an important part of its renewable energy policy: 'They will still want biodiesel.'
Estimated cost of the new plant, not confirmed by Forbes, is about £47 million and it could employ up to 50 staff. "