Published quarterly by Shipping Research Bureau. Britain faces criticism across Europe over the opening of the Drax B coal-fired power station without desulphurization equipment. The new station, which came on stream in May, is such an embarrassment that plans for the Queen to officially open the station were aborted. Drax B is the last in a huge complex of power stations in the Aire valley in Yorkshire. Whilst providing 20 per cent of the nation s electricity, the complex will produce more sulphur dioxide than the combined outputs of Portugal, Norway, Switzerland and Eire.
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