Opinion
New UK Global Tariff gets positive response
The UK government has marked a key step on the road to an independent UK international trade policy, by announcing the UK’s new MFN tariff regime, the UK Global Tariff...
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FPS and The Road to Zero
Working hard to highlight the potential impact on the industry of the government’s strategy to reduce emissions from road transport and red diesel consultation, the FPS has put forward its...
News
Heating oil’s future – making a difference
...Heat In Buildings – and seizes the opportunity to voice their opinion to make a difference to this most critical government consultation,” says FPS chief executive, Guy Pulham. “The current...
News
A stepping stone or an underwhelming plan to reach net zero? Industry responds to new energy plan
The Government’s new net zero plan has been described, by the UK’s leading hydrogen trade association, as a ‘stepping stone’ to a robust UK energy system, while the Energy Industry...
Interview
Kevin McPartlan of Fuels for Ireland
...“However strong the imperative to deliver change you can’t just turn the taps off overnight and we need plans before bans. Governments only want to talk about the end game...
News
Logistics UK celebrates becoming a government approved provider
Logistics UK has been Apprenticeship Provider and Assessment Register (APAR) approved and is now able to provide government-funded apprenticeship training. Initially launching the Level Three ‘Transport Operations Supervisor’ programme in...
Opinion
Is the heating oil market threatened by the government’s decision not to support bioliquids under the renewable heat incentive?
Ben More, Moorland Fuels, Devon “After attending The Oil & Renewable Energy Show in October and conducting our own research, it’s clear that alternative energy sources and government incentives have...
News
Stanlow secures government backing
...site by 2040. “The funding from BEIS is an endorsement of the steps we’re taking, as well as a signal of the Government’s intent to transform the North West into...
News
Generation Logistics a gamechanger for recruitment, says government minister
...in logistics as part of National Apprenticeship Week, Minister Opperman praised the collaborative work of businesses from across the sector in working alongside government to achieve real changes in attitude....
Opinion
CIA President speaks out against the UK Government’s lack of energy policy
Speaking at the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) annual dinner last week, CIA President Tom Crotty of INEOS took the Government to task for its lack of a coherent energy policy and...
Opinion
BEIS backs oil resilience bill with limits
...prejudicing UK fuel supply resilience The report recommends that the Government’s intentions for the bill should be clearly explained on its face. The report also argues that despite the Government’s...
Opinion
Could the lack of offshore wind bids in the latest CfD be the catalyst the sector needs?
Challenges in the AR5 auction spark calls for government action to revitalise the UK’s offshore wind sector. This is not the outcome governments wanted, but perhaps the one the sector...
Analysis
Fuelling progress: future fuels for transport decarbonisation
...produce other bio-components, with no such issues and with some support to scale up operations. Due to current government policy, there has been no call to produce sustainable fuel in...
Insight
Security of oil supply in the fuel distribution sector
...Gertz, was commissioned by the Government to conduct a review into the supply capability of indigenous UK refineries in the face of concerns around rising import dependency for middle distillates...
Insight
The case for a UK CSO agency
...and would have the potential to manage the entirety of the obligation. This option has no cost to the exchequer. Government top slice – a middle ground between Government Strategic...
Opinion
Fuel industry responds to Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Commenting on the new Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP), Kevin Bell, transport and infrastructure partner at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, comments: “The Government’s ground breaking and world first ‘greenprint’ launched...
News
A future framework for heat in buildings: call for evidence
...heating. The FPS and its members put forward their thoughts as to how they want to work with government, providing information and ideas on action the government can take to...
Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...owners, BP, Esso, Shell and Texaco, processing resumed in the early 80s when acquired by the Government. In 2001, it was sold to the US Tosco Corporation, which was then...