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Teesside process industry cluster CCS

Teesside bids to secure industrial future

Added: 6 Oct 2015

Process companies hand government detailed plans for industrial carbon capture and storage network …

Substation

Electricity supply a 'waste' of energy

Added: 5 Oct 2015

More than half of the energy used to supply the UK’s electricity is wasted before it ever reaches c…

Severn Trent Water

Severn Trent fined for sewage leak

Added: 29 Sep 2015

Severn Trent Water has been fined £480,000 after a series of incidents that caused raw sewage to le…

United Utilities reservoir

Utility counts cost of water bug

Added: 23 Sep 2015

United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…

Manufacturing Barometer

Scrap ineffective green taxes, says EEF

Added: 14 Sep 2015

A report published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF calls on the government to scrap the Carbon F…

Naneos Particle detector

New detector tackles tiny particles

Added: 8 Sep 2015

Air Monitors has launched in the UK what it describes as the world’s smallest nanoparticle detector…

Cereal drying plant

'Red tape' limits green initiatives

Added: 4 Sep 2015

Unnecessary levels of complexity and red tape are holding back environmental initiatives within the…

United Utilities reservoir

Ultraviolet rig zaps water utility bug

Added: 20 Aug 2015

United Utilities has deployed ultraviolet rigs to help kill off the final traces of a bug affecting…

Shale fracking

Shale firms offered exploration sites

Added: 19 Aug 2015

The Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has announced 27 additional exploration sites where companies will be…

Shale drilling illustration

Fracking quick

Added: 19 Aug 2015

Is the government’s decision to ‘fast-track’ fracking applications a misguided masterstroke?

Ed Davey tweet

Fracking to be ‘fast-tracked’

Added: 13 Aug 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd and communities secretary Greg Clark have today anno…

A wastewater treatment plant in Oregon.

Wastewater process cleans up C02

Added: 12 Aug 2015

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a wastewater treatment process that …

Michael Ayres, deputy chief executive of Dearman

The power of cold

Added: 11 Aug 2015

Backup gensets offer a resilient means of protecting plant processes, but they are not sustainable …

Waste water treatment plant

Water industry scores with service

Added: 7 Aug 2015

Water companies enjoy a better reputation with the public than other utilities, according to a rece…

Enel Green Power

Enel boosts geothermal plant with biomass

Added: 6 Aug 2015

Enel Green Power has built the world’s first biomass plant tasked with boosting efficiency of geoth…

Andy Furlong

Less talk, more action

Added: 29 Jul 2015

The UK’s top professional and academic bodies squared up to the government on climate policy last w…

Offshore oil rig

Licence wins to revitalise North Sea

Added: 28 Jul 2015

The Oil and Gas Authority has announced 41 new offshore licences for exploration on the UK Continen…

Sabic process plant

Carbon emissions proposal slated

Added: 17 Jul 2015

Changes to the European Commission’s European Union (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS) have been h…

Biogen AD plant

Budget to impact renewables

Added: 13 Jul 2015

Figures published by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) suggest the anaero…

National Grid control centre

In demand

Added: 9 Jul 2015

With plant closures outstripping the supply of new electricity generating capacity, last month saw …