Category Archives: Renewable Energy

Public Event – Flying Green : Making Air Travel More Sustainable

Lecture: Flying Green: Making Air Travel More SustainableOrganised by: The Royal InstitutionTime: 7.00pm – 8.30pmLocation: The Royal Institution, 21 Albermarle Street, London (Map) Is there a way to make air travel more sustainable for those times when we can’t avoid … Continue reading

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Concern for Peatlands Leads to Rejection of Windfarm Proposal

Plans to build one of Europe’s largest on-shore windfarms, on Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides, have been rejected after Scottish Ministers ruled that the farm would have “significant adverse impacts” on rare and endangered birds living on the peatlands. The … Continue reading

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Details of Severn Estuary Feasibility Study Published

John Hutton, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, today published the terms of reference for a two-year feasibility study into the potential to harness tidal power from the Severn Estuary. The cross-Governmental project, involving the Welsh Assembly … Continue reading

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