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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…
Employers offered £150m for 'DIY' skills schemes
Added: 20 Nov 2012
London – The UK government has put up £150 million to help businesses to create their own training …
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…
Ohio researchers develop hybrid CO2 capture membrane
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new hybrid membrane that combines the separat…
Energy minister puts the heat on
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – Measures to reduce the UK heat-related energy requirements and the emissions generated wer…
Looking good in chemical protective clothes market
Added: 19 Nov 2012
London – The market for chemical protective clothing is set for robust growth over the next few yea…
Deepwater Horizon: BP reaches $4.5bn settlement with US
Added: 16 Nov 2012
London - BP is to pay fines of $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges in a deal with the…
UK energy research receives funding boost
Added: 13 Nov 2012
One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…
Auditor slams Sellafield clean-up projects
Added: 9 Nov 2012
London – Decommissioning work at Sellafield, the UK’s largest and most hazardous nuclear site, has …
Environmentalists urged to support Thames Supersewer
Added: 8 Nov 2012
London – A US wastewater expert has urged London to embrace the Thames Tunnel as the only solution…
Corac deal to advance gas-pressure electricity technology
Added: 7 Nov 2012
London `- Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a deal with corporate partners in the UK and U…
Euro6m grant for fuel cell project at Industrial Chemicals
Added: 7 Nov 2012
London – Industrial fuel cell power company AFC Energy and Industrial Chemicals Ltd (ICL) have earn…
Plan to add 3,000 jobs at former Pfizer site
Added: 7 Nov 2012
Sandwich, UK - Discovery Park Ltd has announced plans to potentially generate 3,000 new jobs by 201…
GSK process is year's top advance
Added: 3 Nov 2012
London – GlaxoSmithKline has taken top prize in the IChemE 2012 Awards for a process technology tha…
Smart filter strains oil out of water
Added: 1 Nov 2012
Researchers at Michigan University have developed a smart filter with a shape-shifting surface that…
UK shortlists candidates for £1bn CCS fund
Added: 31 Oct 2012
London – The government has revealed the four bidders to have been shortlisted for the next phase o…
Hitachi buys UK's Horizon nuclear project
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Japan’s Hitachi has signed a £700m deal to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s E.On and RWE.
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Shale gas hits US butadiene production
Added: 30 Oct 2012
New York - The relatively recent and intense exploitation of US natural gas reserves is resulting i…
Skills Show signs up Dragons' Den star
Added: 30 Oct 2012
London – Theo Paphitis - star of BBC Two TV’s Dragons’ Den and one of the UK’s most high profile sh…
