Independent (UK): The operators of Britain’s first “biofuel” power plants are considering burning palm oil, which is blamed for causing rainforest destruction in south-east Asia. At least four new power stations are being planned around the UK to burn vegetable oils with the assurance that they will generate less pollution than burning climate-change-causing fossil fuels. Two that would power more than 50,000 homes, at Portland in Dorset and Newport in South Wales, are considering using palm …