N.Ireland
Machinery: Ramping up diesel production from biomass
Mineral-oil-based fuels suffer a good deal of bad publicity, but the government’s enthusiasm for batteries as a universal method of...
Diesel
Environment
Oil supplier joins Shell to 'clean up' UK agriculture
The UK’s only independently-run oil supplier is transitioning to alternative fuel sources thanks to a distribution partnership with the global...
Agri-Business
Valtra celebrates 5 years of using Neste fuel substitute
This year Valtra marks five years of using Neste fuel, a drop-in substitute for fossil diesel that the Finnish refining...
Rural Life
Police investigating 70,000L diesel theft in Carmarthenshire
Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating the theft of approximately 70,000L of diesel from the Oil4Wales fuel depot in Nantycaws, Carmarthenshire. The...
Rural Life
Diesel thefts more than doubled in 2022 - NFU Mutual
The insurance branch of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU Mutual) has said that diesel thefts more than doubled in 2022,...
Rural Life
Diesel laundering waste costs Monaghan County Council €100,000
Monaghan County Council is expecting to spend around €100,000 this year dealing with the illegal dumping of diesel laundering waste....
Agri-Business
Neste expands availability of renewable diesel
Diesel fuel tends to appear particularly high on the list of sinners when it comes to environmental friendliness, despite combustion...
N.Ireland
Smoke signals point to ‘red’ for driver in Dungannon
A driver was “in the red” with members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) after being caught using...
N.Ireland
Red diesel stolen from quarry prompts investigations
The theft of a “substantial amount” of red agricultural diesel has led to investigations by members of the Police Service...
N.Ireland
Drivers stopped for ‘running on Ribena’ in Down
Two cars were stopped for running on “Ribena juice” – or red agricultural diesel – in Co. Down yesterday, Thursday,...
N.Ireland
Farm trespasser convicted of attempting to steal diesel
Credit Michael Kenwood A 26-year-old Holywood man who claimed he had wandered onto the grounds of a Newtownards farm by...
