SWISS GOVERNMENT NIXES GENEVA AIRPORT BIOFUEL SCHEME

THE SWISS government has decided not to fund project facilitation for a biofuel pilot project at Geneva airport to replace at least 1% of its jet fuel supplies with biofuel supplied by Finland oil refiner and marketer Neste Oyj. The company said it could not proceed as a result of the decision, which followed consultation by the Swiss federal government about the project, scheduled to start operations later this year (2018). Neste said that it had nonetheless gained knowledge about aviation biofuel projects from developing the Geneva plan and wanted to “thank ...


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