by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … UPM received some exciting news last week from consultancy company Pöyry about their Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for UPM’s possible Kotka Biorefinery in Finland. Not only has the EIA been completed and submitted to the “authorities” for their final conclusions, it offers rave reviews of the biorefinery saying it would have substantial positive impacts such as increasing utilization of wastes and residues as well as decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the EIA, the decrease of the greenhouse gas emissions achieved by the biorefinerywould be as much as 16% of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by Finnish road traffic – equivalent to three times the greenhouse gas emissions of a city the size of Helsinki. How’s that for some good news?
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With Finland set to boost its use of biofuels to 54% by 2030 including double counting for fuels produced from forestry waste like UPM’s, the company could provide 30% of Finland’s diesel demand and achieve the mandate, as reported in The Digest in February 2017. With that, we foresee more to come from UPM’s good news bear, or griffin. READ MORE
Environmental Impact Assessment for UPM’s possible Kotka Biorefinery is ready (UPM)