Oil giant British Petroleum – Amoco wants to pour half a billion dollars into researching alternative fuel sources over the next decade…and they may do it in our own backyard.Ã? 27 News has uncovered that a BP-Amoco executive visited UW’s campus Monday, as part of a fact-finding mission.Ã? That representative visited the Engineering and Ag and Life Sciences departments, to evaluate the potential for the university to partner with BP-Amoco for what will be called the “Energy Bioscience Institute.”Ã? It’s a research facility that will focus on alternative and renewable transportation fuels.
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