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July 2008

Silent sentinel:

23 July 2008

This 3m-high sculpture is the latest attraction at United Utilities' Entwistle Reservoir in Lancashire. ...more »

Tags: United Utilities

Towering feat:

23 July 2008

United Utilities woodland officer Trevor Greenhaigh celebrated his 50th birthday by cycling from Blackpool to Paris for charity, clocking two famous towers and using UU tap water to quench his thirst. C'est magnifique! ...more »

Tags: United Utilities

Some of my best friends are Norwegians...

23 July 2008

Boris Johnson's latest gaffe, which has left the Norwegians unamused, has an intriguing utility slant ...more »

Tags: BG Group, British Gas, Centrica

Nice one, m'lud

23 July 2008

Top regulator Lord John Mogg has been busy in the Upper Chamber having his half- penny's worth in a number... ...more »

Tags: Ofgem

Eon faces a long, hot summer

23 July 2008

It's all going a bit Pete Tong as the clock ticks in the run-up to this year's Camp for Climate... ...more »

Tags: Climate Change, electricity generation, Eon UK

Water noise?

15 July 2008

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Tags: Anglian Water

Green wheels

15 July 2008

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Tags: energy retail

Spot the difference, I dare you

15 July 2008

Last week, another colleague of Disconnector was at an annual National Grid seminar looking at prospects for transporting Britain's energy.... ...more »

Tags: National Grid, Ofgem

They protest too much

15 July 2008

Should the coal producers and generators be quaking in their boots? Maybe. Last weekend, climate change activists established a camp... ...more »

Tags: Drax, Eon UK

The salt of the earth... literally

15 July 2008

Bruised but unbowed, energy company Canatxx UK has returned to the fray and is due to submit a revised application... ...more »

Tags: Canatxx

Huggy Bear:

09 July 2008

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Tags: Npower

On song:

09 July 2008

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Tags: Northumbrian Water

Tomorrow belongs to me...

09 July 2008

Earlier this month there was a set-piece debate in the House of Commons on energy security. There was an intriguing... ...more »

Tags: policy

Young are heart

09 July 2008

So farewell Baroness Young, until very recently chief executive of the Environment Agency. She is now shadow chairman of the... ...more »

Tags: Environment Agency

Anyone home?

09 July 2008

This week the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is due to reveal the name of the lucky consortium that will look... ...more »

Tags: nuclear

Fame of a sort...

09 July 2008

Earlier this year Disconnector noted that there were moves afoot to rename one of San Francisco's largest sewage works after... ...more »

Tags: George Bush

Making a splash

07 July 2008

The Queen and Prince Philip certainly made a splash when they performed the official opening of Scottish Water's flagship... ...more »

Tags: Scottish Water

Loo lurv:

02 July 2008

The mud-count was down at this year's Glastonbury Festival, but WaterAid, one of the three main charities supported by the... ...more »

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Going, going... gone

02 July 2008

The loss of Aquavitae from the Scottish competitive water market was whispered abroad among its potential customers as early as... ...more »

Tags: competition

Who doesn't want to know?

02 July 2008

So, what are we to make of a recent survey publicised by Friends of the Earth which found that -... ...more »

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Green boys in blue

02 July 2008

According to new research from the Energy Saving Trust, two-fifths of us think that our boys (and girls) in blue... ...more »

Tags: Energy Saving Trust

Quote...misquote

02 July 2008

Not much shocks Disconnector, but the great man was, ahem, horrified to see how the country's satirists have twisted the... ...more »

Tags: Centrica, Eon UK, RWE