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Carbon sponge

Climate change – why bother?

Added: 16 Apr 2014

Does a renewed focus on adapting to climate change mean we should give up on trying to prevent it?

Scientists produce H2 for fuel cells using an inexpensive catalyst under real-world conditions

Research cutting biodiesel water usage

Added: 20 Mar 2014

European researchers are developing more sustainable biofuels using water-free techniques.

Plastics-to-diesel facility

Turning plastic into fuel

Added: 18 Mar 2014

The development of new technologies to convert plastic film into fuel is imminent, according to was…

Bacteria used in bioplastics production

Bacteria boost for waste bioplastics

Added: 12 Mar 2014

Bacteria species can enhance the production of bioplastics from waste, according to new research.

Drax Power Plant 2

Does industrial growth really matter?

Added: 5 Mar 2014

Over the past month or so we have heard a great deal from our political leaders about how passionat…

Chemicals processing 1

ExxonMobil licenses InteliRed

Added: 5 Mar 2014

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company has awarded the first commercial license for its InteliRed rem…

Cutting the cord

Interlink establishes UK base

Added: 12 Feb 2014

US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …

Sellafield nuclear facility

Delays and overspend hit Sellafield

Added: 11 Feb 2014

Clean-up and decommissioning projects at the Sellafield nuclear plant are subject to considerable d…

Cuadrilla shale site

Cuadrilla targets Blackpool shale sites

Added: 4 Feb 2014

Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla today announced plans for exploration at two new sites near Bla…

Buncefield2

Risky business

Added: 29 Jan 2014

Maintaining safety standards as they evolve is an ongoing challenge in hazardous environments, repo…

CCS plant

Renewables project gets green light

Added: 27 Jan 2014

Scottish renewables firm Forth Energy has been given approval to build a combined heat and power (C…

David Cameron World Economic Forum Davos 2014

Shale vital for “reshoring” says PM

Added: 24 Jan 2014


Prime Minister David Cameron today told world leaders gathered in Switzerland that development of s…

UK's largest renewables project

Largest biogas project selects suppliers

Added: 22 Jan 2014

A Scottish distillery that is building the UK’s largest biogas to grid project has selected the fir…

Offshore wind farm at dusk

Plan to pay process plants to use electricity

Added: 7 Jan 2014

Exclusive: National Grid is considering paying major energy users such as process plants to use ele…

Shipwrecked Beer

Brewers hit emissions target early

Added: 23 Dec 2013

The UK brewing sector has reached its 2020 carbon emissions reduction target eight years early, a n…

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

£190bn of process projects in national plan

Added: 4 Dec 2013

Over £190 billion of projects featuring process technologies have been identified in the latest ver…

Sita Severnside Energy from Waste

£1.4bn deal for 34MW waste plant

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Hitachi Zosen Inova is to build a 34MW energy from waste (EfW) plant after its client SITA signed a…

Shale gas fracking

Shale impact set to be "minimised"

Added: 27 Nov 2013

Water UK and the UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) will work together to help minimise the impact …

Cory Environmental opens its first AD plant in Somerset

Cory opens first AD plant

Added: 26 Nov 2013

Cory Environmental has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant capable of generating 500kw …

Biogen AD plant

AD feed-in tariffs "can be withdrawn"

Added: 22 Nov 2013

The government should consider withdrawing feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for anaerobic digestion (AD) plan…