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Natural England is launching a pilot project that will bring more flexibility to the licensing system for great crested newts, while providing more of the weedy ponds which they favour.

One of the UK’s most experienced renewable energy firms has completed the first phase of Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s largest solar PV project as part of the water company's initiative to reduce carbon emissions by 25%.

A unique ‘fats to fuel’ recycling project in Bradford supported by Yorkshire Water is planning to expand across parts of the city to harness the bio fuel potential of waste cooking oil, whilst also protecting local sewers.

United Utilities' boil water alert following the detection of the Cryptosporidium parasite in the company’s water network has now entered its fourth week - yesterday the company started the process to lift the boil water advice in some specific parts of Lancashire.

A new defined benefits pension scheme is being offered to some Northumbrian Water Group employees to replace an existing final salary scheme which the company says is "no longer sustainable."

A number of leading renewable energy organisations are warning that government proposals in the consultation launched yesterday to review the Feed-in Tariffs scheme will jeopardise investment in the renewable energy sector and put thousands of jobs at risk.

NI Water has awarded a contract valued at £58 million to Cookstown based company, GO Power.  NI Water is the largest consumer of electricity in Northern Ireland and the new contract covers the company’s entire metered electricity requirements for the next two years.  

Water industry regulator Ofwat has ruled that developers' costs in a dispute over their contributions to date towards the provision of one of Anglian Water's strategic assets should be limited to £2.5 million -as a result the developers will receive an as yet unquantified refund, plus associated interest, on their contributions to date.

Martin Shouler, Arup’s global skills leader for environmental services engineering who works on a wide variety of projects related to water and wastewater systems, explores how water sector is facing a trilemma of sharing increasingly scarce water resources.

 

A new report published today shows that manufacturers are not feeling the benefit of ‘green’ red tape culls and calls for bolder Government action on environmental legislation.

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