Please help us to challenge the position recently taken by the UK Environment Agency that all used cooking oil, and indeed any second use material which can be developed as a way of making renewable energy from non-fossil materials must be subject to Waste Management Regulations. The effect of this will make the creation of bio-fuels in the UK non-viable for all except the very largest centralised operations. It will mean that local groups and voluntary organisations will be unable to make bio-fuels to meet local needs, and it will mean that even home manufacture of bio-fuel will require licences costing several thousands of pounds. The Environment Agency even claim that the use of bio-fuels made from used fats is subject to regulation as a means of waste disposal. It effectively jeopardises any serious investment in the bio-fuels industry in the UK. This level of regulation is not reported from any of our Bio-power operators overseas.
To support us, please get your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1689.
Everyone who supports our work in the development of real alternatives to fossil fuels, and also who wishes to promote renewable energy in the UK is asked to help us with this campaign.
This is a real opportunity for you to do something positive that will have a real and immediate effect upon a sustainable future. Following the confrontation we have experienced by the Environment Agency to our work to develop and promote better bio-fuels in the UK, through Paul Keech MP for Hereford, we have now presented an Early Day Motion asking the government to take immediate action to require the EA to withdraw its present enforcement action against our members, and work towards a very much lower level of regulation that is risk based, proportionate and serves a specific purpose in terms of environmental protection.
We ask every reader to write to their MP, asking them to sign this EDM. This is a commonly used parliamentary tool to register the strength of public opinion on a specific issue. The more MPs who sign this EDM the greater it will draw the attention of ministers. It will also draw the attention of the press to the issues we raise.
To support us, please get your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1689.
Everyone who supports our work in the development of real alternatives to fossil fuels, and also who wishes to promote renewable energy in the UK is asked to help us with this campaign.
This is a real opportunity for you to do something positive that will have a real and immediate effect upon a sustainable future. Following the confrontation we have experienced by the Environment Agency to our work to develop and promote better bio-fuels in the UK, through Paul Keech MP for Hereford, we have now presented an Early Day Motion asking the government to take immediate action to require the EA to withdraw its present enforcement action against our members, and work towards a very much lower level of regulation that is risk based, proportionate and serves a specific purpose in terms of environmental protection.
We ask every reader to write to their MP, asking them to sign this EDM. This is a commonly used parliamentary tool to register the strength of public opinion on a specific issue. The more MPs who sign this EDM the greater it will draw the attention of ministers. It will also draw the attention of the press to the issues we raise.
