Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

West Sussex's Ferry Farm Community Solar and Somerset's Burnham and Weston Energy CIC have each pumped £40,000 into community initiatives that include food banks, Covid-19 support groups, and efforts to provide schoolchildren access to digital libraries. million" in investment, according to a CfR statement.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Sizewell C project takes major step forward as government unveils plans to establish Great British Energy, a new arms-length public body to oversee UK nuclear power pipeline. It will deliver another big boost to jobs and skills in the nuclear industry and provide huge new opportunities for communities in Suffolk," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Leading water utility specialist Pennon Group has agreed to sell its waste and recycling arm Viridor to a group of investors in a deal worth £4.2bn, the firm announced today, in what would be one of the most significant transactions in the UK resources industry in recent years.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has granted development consent for the Sizewell C nuclear power station on the coast of Suffolk, overruling the recommendations of the Planning Inspectorate on the grounds the power plant is set to play a critical part in decarbonising the UK's economy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi has officially scrapped plans to build new nuclear power plants at Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire amid ongoing struggles to drum-up additional financing for the high profile projects, it confirmed today, dealing another major blow to the nuclear industry's ambitions in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The new government is being urged to move quickly to decide on the future of proposed nuclear development projects in the UK, such as the planned Sizewell C development, in order to sustain levels of growth within the nuclear workforce, which is now at its highest level in five years.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2020

As well as funding tree planting across areas from Yorkshire to Somerset, the investment will also build a pipeline of projects for community planting in future years, according to the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra). drive unveiled by the government yesterday aimed at boosting forest cover and storing carbon.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plans for a new nuclear plant at Sizewell are reportedly under review by the government as it seeks to cut spending in a bid to tackle the UK's deficit, heightening fears that the 3.2GW low carbon power development could face further delays or even be axed altogether. Nuclear power is a choice, not a necessity," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

Peatlands are the UK's largest natural carbon store as well as critical habitats for flora and fauna. The actions announced today mark a new chapter in the story of our iconic peatlands - safeguarding their long-term health and vitality as part of our commitments to achieve net zero and deliver our 25 Year Environment Plan.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2022

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the new funding injection would enable the continued development of the project as it aims to attract further financing from private investors and, subject to value for money and relevant approvals, the UK government.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Boris Johnson has signalled a major gear shift for British energy policy, yesterday touting ambitions to significantly expand the UK's nuclear capacity over the coming years in response to heightened concern over energy security following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2022

The announcement comes amid growing public outcry over the sewage pollution in UK waterways and around coastlines this summer, with water companies facing fierce criticism over increased profits and executive pay at a time when their environmental performance has continued to worsen.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

While fashion brands' supply chains are notoriously complex and opaque, the firm claims it will benefit from having more than 50 per cent of its manufacturing already located in the UK. We're able to control that in a very direct manner," Charlotte O'Sullivan, global marketing and digital director at Mulberry, told BusinessGreen.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 23, 2024

The plant in Somerset, which has been under construction since 2016, is now expected to be finished by 2031 and cost up to £35bn , France’s EDF said. However, the cost will be far higher once inflation is taken into account, because EDF is using 2015 prices.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

French energy firm swung to profit in 2023 despite impairment charge on struggling nuclear project in UK The owner of the Hinkley Point C power plant has taken a near €13bn hit after delays and cost overruns to the vast nuclear project, which have triggered international political tensions. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 29, 2024

Regional mayor Dan Norris launches project to explore potential for former mines to produce low-carbon heat When Bryn Hawkins worked in coalmines through the 1960s and early 1970s he says few understood the impact the burning of fossil fuels would have on the planet.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

The sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1 The volume of thinnings is often far from negligible.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. However, today's publication of the Energy White Paper marks a significant milestone in the UK's net zero transition, representing the first detailed policy framework to be delivered in support of Johnson's new 'green revolution'.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 21, 2021

With neonicotinoids back in the news this month, Nick Mann of Habitat Aid shares his views on the growing threat they pose in combination with climate change. They’re in the news again, as DEFRA has licenced their “emergency use” as a seed coating for sugar beet. This is – to say the least – contentious.

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