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October 2009
They don't have the FOGiest idea (geddit?)
Budding Jamie Olivers are being taught the best way to dispose of waste fats, oils and grease. Anglian Water has... ...more »
Climate change is all in the mind (apparently)
Here's a turn up for the books. The tiny but perfectly formed New Party has lodged a complaint with the... ...more »
First past the Post
You have to admire the chutzpah of the company. Disconnector refers to the opportunist ads rushed out by energy supplier... ...more »
It's not what you know about climate change, it's what you do with the knowledge...
First the good news. Apparently us Brits know more about climate change than our European counterparts, according to research launched... ...more »
Shocking truth behind the headlines
Normally the fact that a patient is recovering in hospital would not make the headlines. Last week, though, was a... ...more »
Doorstep salesman caught bang to rights
We all know that it's a competitive market out there on the doorstep as agents jostle for business, but it... ...more »
Mud larks!
Pictured is the acceptable face of a dirty weekend, literally. Recently a squad of Wessex Water employees took part in... ...more »
Shedding some light on economists
Now here's an intriguing factoid. Guess how many economists are employed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change? Well,... ...more »
New Ofgem man has friends in high places
Largely untrumpeted, Ofgem now has a director of marketing and public affairs called Wilf Wilde, an old chum of chief... ...more »
Water treatment works faces spirited opposition
It's all going a bit "dark side" in mid-Wales, where protesters opposed to the design of a Welsh Water project... ...more »
Radioactive rabbits - easy spot from the air
Now, as stories go, this is one of the most intriguing that Disconnector has seen in a long, long time.... ...more »
Laying old bones to rest
The great man is not generally one for poignancy (he finds it difficult to spell), but Disconnector was, he admits,... ...more »
Gazprom is growing too big, even for the Russians
Feathers have been ruffled in St Petersburg over plans for a 77-storey skyscraper in the heart of the historic city,... ...more »
Bring me the bill
Is this is a world record? Disconnector poses the question after learning about a pensioner in Darlington who was virtually... ...more »
Tory energy team creates sparks
Last week, the Conservative Party conference in Manchester made strenuous efforts to display unity and not a smidgeon of triumphalism... ...more »
I came, I saw, I scared the wits out of some schoolchildren
Some school children are getting a history lesson with a difference thanks to their local water company, Yorkshire Water. It... ...more »
Smell's like success
Up-and-coming film maker Oliver Beer has made a three-minute short featuring seven male singers performing a new work called Amen,... ...more »
Worse things happen at sea - at least, they do in Italy
The radioactive waste arising from civil nuclear programmes remains one of the issues bedevilling the economics of current new-build programmes,... ...more »
Stirring up trouble
Judge James Spencer is getting a bit annoyed. He presided over the trial of 29 people who took over a... ...more »
The camera never lies... hold on a minute, what the heck is that?
Disconnector is still chuckling over the bare-faced cheek of the estate agent who recently advertised an "exceptional fisherman's cottage" at... ...more »
Hutton plays it by the book
Now we know that former business secretary John Hutton has decided not to become a senior adviser for EDF Energy,... ...more »
Eyes left:
Environment secretary Hilary Benn looked a tad distracted at this photo opportunity in Yorkshire recently. The secretary of state, a... ...more »
Megaphone Melanie:
TV favourite Melanie Sykes has launched the search for the Green Voice of Great Britain on behalf of the Energy... ...more »
Ofgem spills the beans, but who's beans?
Should Ofgem be reported to the Competition Commission for anti-competitive behaviour? Disconnector muses thus after the watchdog published an exchange... ...more »
Everyone's a winner... er, hold on a minute
City traders enjoyed themselves last week by taking a position on both Eon and RWE on the grounds that their... ...more »
It's all a matter of connections...
There has been a bit of a furore in Northern Ireland over a pensioner not connected to the electricity distribution... ...more »
It's all a matter of connections...
There has been a bit of a furore in Northern Ireland over a pensioner not connected to the electricity distribution... ...more »
The good old days of class war
Labour Party Conference sessions are not what they were. By and large the conference is carefully choreographed and stage-managed, so... ...more »