Biofuel plant is back on track

The development of a huge biofuel plant in Saltend, near Hull, is back on track following a controversial dispute.

Vivergo, the company behind the biofuel facility, claims that it now expects the site to open and production to begin in the new year.

Work was originally supposed to have been completed this month, however, the company became embroiled in a dispute with support services group Redhall when Vivergo Fuels terminated its contract with them.

The biofuel producer claimed that work on the site was unacceptably slow and the contract termination left 430 workers without jobs, with neither company admitting responsibility for them.

However, an adjudicator has now found that Vivergo did not have grounds to terminate the contract and Redhall is for the return of costs totalling £16.7 million.

Once the biofuel plant is up and running the BBC reports that it will produce more than one million tonnes of wheat, which will be used to produce 420 million litres of bioethanol and 500,000 tonnes of animal feed.