Chemicals firm cancels plans for biodiesel plant
Date: 5.12.2008
The world's third-largest chemicals company, Ineos, has shelved plans to build four large European **biodiesel plants** because of the "continued and prolonged global **economic downturn**".
The plants — in Belgium, France, Germany and Britain — were intended to come on stream over the next four years. Together, they would have produced a total of 2 million tonnes of **fuel** annually.
"Nature News":[ http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081203/full/456559c.html]
