All Environment
EU puts carbon capture funding on hold
Added: 19 Dec 2012
Brussels - The European Commission has opted to not to award any of the €275-million fund earmarked…
New energy centre for Kodak
Added: 17 Dec 2012
London – Kodak Ltd site in Harrow, north west London, operates a combined heat and power (CHP) plan…
Fracking opens up industry divide
Added: 16 Dec 2012
London - The UK government’s decision to allow the resumption of shale gas exploration in the UK ha…
Green light for fracking
Added: 13 Dec 2012
London – Exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to…
Energy Institute launches training scheme
Added: 10 Dec 2012
London – The Energy Institute (EI) has launched an approved training provider scheme as part of its…
Energy policy: Reality check needed (Comment)
Added: 10 Dec 2012
Volker Beckers CEO of RWE npower has voiced his concerns about the current direction of UK energy p…
DuPont breaks ground on cellulosic biorefinery
Added: 6 Dec 2012
Work is gathering pace on one of the world’s largest commercial-scale cellulosic biorefineries
Projects to address UK's material dependency
Added: 4 Dec 2012
The EPSRC is funding four new projects to address the UK’s limited resources and high material depe…
Reducing bulk solvents in the process industries
Added: 3 Dec 2012
Bulk solvents used in the process industries can pose a serious threat to human and environmental h…
Energy Bill still holds threats for UK chemicals manufacturers
Added: 3 Dec 2012
London – UK chemicals makers need more details of measures to protect energy-intensive industries f…
Tata saves £250k on fume-extraction energy costs
Added: 30 Nov 2012
Rotheram, UK – Tata Steel has cut annual energy costs by £250,000 following the installation of var…
Business can't afford new green measures
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – Many businesses will struggle to afford a three-fold increase in charges to pay for the go…
Energy Bill: Tata closures a 'weather' warning
Added: 28 Nov 2012
Tata Steel’s decision to axe 900 jobs in the UK is part of a plan to turn the company into an “all-…
Landfill gas analysers for China
Added: 23 Nov 2012
Beijing – The Liulitun landfill in Haidian District of Beijing has installed a UK-made Geotech fixe…
Carbon capture innovators to give UK the edge
Added: 22 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has announced 13 winning projects in a £20-million competition intended …
Prince Charles in biogas-to-grid first
Added: 22 Nov 2012
Poundbury, UK – The Prince of Wales will today open the country’s first full-scale anaerobic digest…
Improved detection of hazardous chemicals
Added: 21 Nov 2012
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of ch…
Centre to help deal with nuclear waste
Added: 20 Nov 2012
A £1.2m centre to research the decontamination and safe storage of nuclear waste is being establish…
Choosing steels for the biofuels industry
Added: 20 Nov 2012
Stainless steel is a material of choice for many applications in bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas p…
Concern over EU carbon capture fund
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London - Only one carbon capture & storage (CCS) project is likely receive EU funding under the fir…
