DEFRA Awards GBP4.3M To Company That Discovers Wood Growing On Trees

An east of England business, The Woodfuel East project, has been given a £4.3 million pound grant after making the startling discovery that trees and branches can be burnt for fuel.

If everything goes according to plan, and directors haven't blown it all on fast cars & women by then, the project aims to supply the equivalent of 12,500 homes with energy by 2013.

That's enough to keep just half of the population of the Beacontree Housing Estate warm in their beds at night, so I'm sure you'll agree that's money well spent.

The project will create "about 80" jobs, whoopey-do. Why didn't they just give eighty people fifty grand each to stay at home, thereby reducing their carbon footprint even more?

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