MP backs biodiesel tax break project
29 June 2011
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George is backing a campaign to keep tax breaks for companies who produce biodiesel.
Producers converting cooking oil into biodiesel presently take advantage of a 20p differential however that is due to end next April.
The St Ives MP, who leads the Lib Dem Environment Team, has actually been consulting with the UK sustainable biodiesel alliance.
Mr George said "a number of small companies in Cornwall presently earn money from utilized cooking oil".
He included: "In order to be able to get this kind of market going it does need simply a little bit of lift which is available in the form of tax inevitable."
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