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» UW on politics: comprehensive water legislation on the back burner?
The sudden appearance of a piece of water legislation yesterday should intrigue Westminster watchers. The first reading of the Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill was distinctly low-key. No fanfare from its sponsoring ministry the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. No press n...
» UW on politics: who might replace energy secretary Chris Huhne?
Essex Police are now close to deciding whether or not to prosecute Chris Huhne over claims that he asked his former wife to take penalty points over speeding.
The mood music in Westminster is clear. If he's charged he will lose his Cabinet post. So who might replace him?
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» UW on politics: battle lines forming over wind farms?
Chris Heaton-Harris, the Tory MP for Daventry in Northamptonshire has called a meeting of fellow members to see how much support there would be for a group of MPs to lobby hard against what he perceives as ill-conceived Government support for wind power.
» There's going green ... and then there's going green
Message in a bottle: Eon's collaborations with Birmingham City University to develop green technologies are turning up truly green products. Eon's head of business development David Morgan, along with Mel Lees, dean of the faculty of technology, engineering and environment at Birmingham City Univers...
» Going cold on new nuclear?
It's been a while since EDF Energy's chief, Vincent de Rivaz, stopped vowing that UK customers would be able to cook their Christmas dinners in 2017 using electricity supplied from a new nuclear power station at Somerset's Hinkley Point. The company has avoided giving startup dates recently.
» Circular thinking
Readers of a regional newspaper in the North East are being urged to dream up zany ways to utilise a couple of wind turbines that are standing idle near the local town of Alnwick.
» Burying good news
So desperately in need of good news to dispense, and almost as universally despised as journalists, energy suppliers get tetchy if they miss out on the few scraps of happiness that fall their way.
» Dressed to kill at coal-fired plant
It's a long-standing jape among energy folk that the governing maxim at energy regulator Ofgem is: "It might well work in practice, but does it work in theory?"
» UW on politics: battle lines forming over wind farms?
Today might just see the start of a significant backbench movement dedicated to undermining the Coalition's current wind farm policy aspirations.
» The Chinese are coming ...
» Be careful where you throw that
Vegetarian option: there were warnings over Christmas from the unflinching sewermen of east London that were less than appetising about the effects of putting turkey fat down the drain. Thames Water's redoubtable sewer flushers describe - in song - the horrors they confront after fat from festive di...
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