Edinburgh event puts spotlight on mercury
MERCURY pollution attracted a significant amount of public interest at July's Mercury 2013 International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP), in Edinburgh....
Carbon catchers raise CO2 awareness
A group of artists and scientists were attempting to raise the profile of CO2 emissions and climate change during the Edinburgh Festival in August...
Renewables financing to remain lukewarm
A series of Government announcements over the summer may have improved prospects and contributed to increased levels of activity in the UK renewables sector,...
Lacklustre recyclers listed
ASHFORD Borough Council in Kent has been named as England's worst performing council when it comes to recycling, but has already pledged to improve...
Defra and DECC budget cuts loom
Spending Review criticised for lack of detail
The UK government Spending Review in late June inflicted a 10% cut on the Department for Environment, Food...
Shale gets the green light
A mix of optimism and caution greets new BGS estimates
FIGURES released in late June by the British Geological Survey (BGS) in association with DECC...
Peter powers over Pavegen pavement tiles
PAVEGEN has had the largest ever installation of its energy-harvesting pavement tiles at the 2013 Paris Marathon.
Commissioned by French energy specialists Schneider Electric, lead...
Smart metering delay follows IT concerns
THE government announced in May that it would delay for a year the introduction of smart metering, following concerns that the industry is not...
Breaking it down: compostable product packaging
Envirotec looks at the latest progress
MORE and more product packaging is being recycled each year but a lot of it still goes to landfill,...
Dundee rejects biomass, for now
£325 million proposal to face public enquiry
FORTH Energy’s plan to build a £325 million biomass facility in Dundee has been derailed by the City...
Multi-stream renewables event returns in October
ENERGY generation event Nextgen 2013 will take place on 9 – 10 October at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, attended by farmers, landowners, specifiers, consultants, local...
Sump pumping problem solved
THE installation of a Godwin DPC300 Dri-Prime pump at the Stag Industrial Estate Altrincham for Norland Managed Services has solved a potential flooding problem....
Hyundai hydrogen-powered vehicles arrive
Hyundai Motor Company has delivered the first of its assembly line-produced ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles to the City of Copenhagen in Denmark.
The hydrogen-powered SUVs...
5p bag charge aims to curb waste
SCOTLAND has revealed plans to charge consumers for single use carriers bags in a bid to curb plastic waste, leaving England as the only...
Activist network turns attention to coal power plants
GREENPEACE has published a report titled ‘Silent killers – why Europe must replace coal power with green energy’, which cites research conducted at Stuttgart...
Davey launches new Fund phase at Esholt
On an inaugural visit to Yorkshire Water’s Esholt facility, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey launched a new phase of...
Alliance to improve waste gas monitoring
SCOTTISH technology company M Squared Lasers has launched a research partnership with the Glasgow hub of the world’s largest applied research body, the Fraunhofer...
Green Deal off to a slow start
Government figures reveal there are no "live" plans yet
FIGURES released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) on 27 June suggest...
Solely solar for Haiti hospital
A solar-powered hospital has been built north of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.
It was funded by over 150 charitable organisations, overseen by Partners in Health,...
IEA calls for intensive action on climate change
WARNING that the world is not on track to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has...
