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UK's biggest biomass plant prepares for Heathrow take-off

Tree felling in Richmond Park for biomass energy centre at Heathrow Airport
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Environmentalists may be wary of the airport's expansion plans, but Heathrow is about to take a big step towards cutting its carbon emissions

Deep in London's vast Richmond Park, deer roam, bats roost, even stag beetles scurry amid the soil. And then every few minutes the serenity is broken as a plane glides low in the sky towards the nearby...

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