Whisky industry toasts ground breaking for pioneering green energy plant

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Speyside combined heat and power plant to harness energy from distillery waste

The construction of the world's first biomass energy plant to be powered by whisky distillery by-products gets underway today in what is being hailed as a major breakthrough for Scotland's historic drinks...

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