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What’s the carbon footprint of your product?

Businesses can from today assess the carbon footprint of their goods and services and play a greater part in fighting climate change, thanks to a new standard launched by BSI British Standards, the Carbon Trust and Defra.
The standard - called PAS 2050 - is a consistent way of counting the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Gareth Jones | 0 comments | Continued
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Brown Says Downturn Won’t Hit Green Plans

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday the global economic downturn would not affect a government drive to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. However, an industry executive cast doubt on the ability of the UK’s existing power transmission network to cope with planned increases in wind power output. Brown told a wind energy conference [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Gareth Jones | 0 comments | Continued
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Year long study on dredging in Norfolk and Suffolk to take place

A year-long study is to take place into the effect of dredging on the Suffolk and Norfolk coast in respect to fishing and coastal erosion. The Anglian Offshore Dredging Association (AODA), which represents five of the UK’s largest dredging companies, will look at the effects as it is about to renew its sand extraction license [...]

October 9th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Heavy rainfall and potential flooding expected

Residents and businesses in the east of England may be looking to increase their flood protection as warnings have been issued across the country.The Met Office has predicted that the equivalent of one month’s rainfall is expected to fall in 24 hours, the Telegraph reports.This follows the downpours experienced at the beginning of the week, [...]

July 9th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Essex, Suffolk retain good quality water status

Water quality along the coasts of Suffolk and Essex remained high, despite a national drop in the cleanliness of bathing water at beaches.While there was a nationwide drop in the number of beaches receiving the top rating for water quality from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), Suffolk and Essex did not experience a similar drop.According [...]

May 23rd, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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A haulage firm has been fined for polluting a Norfolk watercourse

Woody’s Haulage, pleaded guilty to breaching the Water Resources Act 1991 at a hearing earlier this month and was sentenced to pay a fine of £7,000 with £13,527 costs by the Swaffham Magistrates Court for causing pollution of a stream and River Thet.At an earlier hearing, the firm was fined £3,500 for its failure to [...]

May 1st, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued
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Balance between environment and boating ‘key’

Balancing the interests of boating and the environment is key to understanding the impact of issues such as climate change and sea level rise on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads.This is the view of Alexandra Steven, a sailor who has just been appointed to the Broads Authority to help conserve and enhance the natural beauty [...]

March 27th, 2008 | News Service | 0 comments | Continued