Industry: Green gas could fill 45 LNG tankers a year

James Murray
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REA report argues UK could slash LNG imports and reduce emissions by nurturing its fast expanding green gas industry

The UK's biogas industry could by 2035 provide enough green gas to cut UK imports of Liquified Natural Gas by around a quarter, replacing natural gas with 45 tankers worth of low carbon green gas made...

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