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GGS GasClam monitoring Blackpool shale gas site

Shale gas suppliers team up

Added: 21 May 2014

Two environmental services firms currently working with Cuadrilla today announced a joint venture t…

Keep it clean

Keep it clean

Added: 1 May 2014

High water costs and environmental laws are forcing process plants to consider new cleaning methods.

George Osborne

Chancellor launches spending consultation

Added: 28 Apr 2014

Chancellor unveils plans to boost science, research and innovation expenditure in the UK.

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…