27th October 2020 | Commercial Energy
Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 transatlantic flights, according to new research. Operations at the Preston New Road shale gas site led to a venting of around 4.2 tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that…Read more
19th October 2020 | Recycling
Nestle UK and Ireland has joined forces with Plastic Energy, a chemical recycling company, with the aim of developing a plant in the UK. The two companies will come together to explore the scope for the first-commercial large-scale facility of its kind in the UK. Plastic Energy, which already has two similar recycling plants in…Read more
19th October 2020 | Commercial Energy
Green jobs in renewable energy, among other sectors, should be at the heart of the Covid-19 recovery in the UK to ensure long-term growth, according to a new report from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science. The report – “Jobs for a strong and sustainable recovery from Covid-19” – which was published…Read more
16th October 2020 | Commercial Energy
One of the biggest criticisms of electric cars is what happens to their high-powered batteries once they degrade and have to be decommissioned from plug-in vehicles. Not only are EV batteries expensive for owners to replace, high-skilled workforces are required to extract valuable metals inside them, and even then, they are difficult to recycle –…Read more
12th October 2020 | Commercial Energy
Boris Johnson seems to have had a change of heart. Despite once saying that wind turbines couldn’t “pull the skin off a rice pudding”, the prime minister recently announced his intention to turn the UK into “the Saudi Arabia of wind power”, increasing the government’s offshore wind target to 40 gigawatts of energy by 2030….Read more
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