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UK submits 12 energy projects for Euro4.5bn fund
Added: 11 May 2011
London – The UK government has submitted 12 UK-based projects to the European Investment Bank (EIB)…

Linde, Sapphire in algae fuel production deal
Added: 11 May 2011
Munich, Germany – Linde Group and Sapphire Energy, Inc. thave signed a multi-year agreement to co-d…

Metso to convert Polish coal-fired plant to biomass
Added: 26 Apr 2011
London – Metso has received a Euro20m order to convert a coal-fired CFB boiler to a biomass-fired b…

Helius Energy awards Scottish biomass CHP contracts
Added: 19 Apr 2011
?London – Helius CoRDe Ltd – a JV between Helius Energy plc, Rabo Project Equity BV and The Combina…

Vivergo workers target BP AGM over "lock out"
Added: 11 Apr 2011
London – Unions are to stage a protest at the BP AGM on 14 April over the plight of 430 workers who…

Almost half of businesses want the CRC tax/scheme binned
Added: 1 Apr 2011
London – On the first anniversary of its implementation – perhaps tellingly 1 April – UK businesses…

UK slips down global 'green' projects league
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Philadelphia – UK-based investment in ’green’ energy projects slumped to $3.3 billion (around £2 bi…

Power from small amounts of waste process gas
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…

Dealing with an odour problem
Added: 30 Mar 2011
Ensus is continuing to battle an odour problem that has been affecting people living near its bioet…

CO2 or Caesium-137?
Added: 24 Mar 2011
Spare a thought for our redoubtable green lobby groups, who have spent the last two decades warning…

Polymers from CO2
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Bayer has started up a pilot plant at its Chempark Leverkusen site to turn CO2 emissions into feeds…

Worst case scenarios
Added: 18 Mar 2011
London – The UK government has asked Dr Mike Weightman, the UK’s chief nuclear inspector to report …

Carbon pricing policy could 'floor' industry
Added: 15 Mar 2011
The UK government has been warned that its ’Floor Price’ policy for carbon - intended to accelerate…

RWE, BASF, Linde in clean coal power advance
Added: 11 Mar 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – RWE Power, BASF and Linde have advanced a CO2 scrubbing solvent, which they…

Siemens Water technology for Marcellus Shale project
Added: 8 Mar 2011
Munich, Germany – Siemens Water Technologies is providing Hydro Recovery LP with a wastewater treat…

TATA Steel cuts emissions by 40% at Cumbrian site
Added: 26 Oct 2010
Shapfell, UK – Scrubber technology designed, manufactured and installed by ACWA AIR, has helped Tat…

Process sector reaction to UK government's Comprehensive Spending Review
Added: 26 Oct 2010
Environment:
Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA):
The 2010 Spending Review se…

CRC allowances sting in UK Spending Review
Added: 22 Oct 2010
M&C Energy Group has issued the following advice on how changes to the CRC scheme, announced with t…

CRC 'virtually impossible' to enforce
Added: 22 Oct 2010
London – Changes to the CRC will be ’virtually impossible’ to enforce unless significant improvemen…

UK investment 'surge' for nuclear, carbon capture, renewables
Added: 19 Oct 2010
London – The UK government plans to establish eight new nuclear plants as part of a “surge of inves…