Beef bonanza for tippermen
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• Tipper operators will soon be tendering for the first stage of a national plan to carry 340,000 tonnes of BSE-free cattle carcasses to incineration sites.
The meat and bone meal will be moved from 12 UK storage plants in the 30month disposal programme as part of the agreement to end the EU ban on British beef exports.
The Government last week awarded the first incineration contract to Fibrogen, which hopes to burn 255,000 tonnes of meat and bone meal for electricity from its Glanford power station near Scunthorpe.
Planning permission is needed, but Fibrogen wants to commission the site by the middle of next year. The Intervention Board—the Government department responsible for the incineration—will award the transport contract. It is likely that covered tippers will take the meal from two Lancashire stores to Glanford. The site will burn 260 tonnes of meal a day for at least three years. The Intervention Board will soon announce the winner of another contract to dispose of the remaining 85,000 tonnes of stockpiled meal.