BA blames UK government for scrapping of £340m green fuels project

Groundbreaking plan to turn London's rubbish into green jet fuel has been abandoned due to a lack of UK government support, airline says

British Airways says that it has been forced to shelve a groundbreaking 340m scheme to create 16m gallons of jet fuel from London's rubbish every year, partly due to a lack of government support.

The Green Sky project was due to open in 2017 at an ex-oil refinery in Thurrock, Essex, where it would have turned into gas 575,000 tonnes of household waste that would otherwise have been landfilled or incinerated.