Housing Minister Margaret Beckett has today announced that fifteen areas in the East of England will share more than £144m to help deliver their long-term plans to increase house building to meet the needs of their communities.
Despite the current condition of the housing market, the long-term need to build more homes remains - the population [...]
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£144m for East of England local authorities with plans for housing growth
If everyone in the world were as wasteful as we are in the UK we would need 8 worlds to keep going
Peterborough Energypark has been designed to remove our reliance on landfill and reduce the amount of pollution created by our daily lives.
The energypark is a 66MW electrical power generating station that incorporates technology before and after electrical generation to ensure that the power produced is clean and green and that value from all materials is [...]
Revolutionary Russian Thinking in Bid to go Green
High-profile officials from ProProsperity, a major player in the regeneration of the Moscow are in Peterborough this week (10-14 November 2008) for talks with Peterborough’s Renewable Energy company PREL about an initiative to develop an energypark in the Russian capital.
Moscow may be the capital of the world’s second largest oil exporter and major gas producer [...]
Peterborough launches its ambition to become the UK’s Environment Capital with a bang…
At an event on Wednesday 19th November the city’s movers and shakers gathered to pledge their support to creating the UK’s Environment Capital right here in Peterborough.
The event was organised by Peterborough Environment City Trust, the environmental charity which has been working for a greener city for fifteen years, and sponsored by the Peterborough Property [...]
Free* Carbon footprint training for businesses
By the year 2050, the government has promised to cut UK emissions by 60%. As part of this, a variety of carbon-related legislation is being introduced. This includes the Carbon Reduction Commitment, which comes into effect in April 2009 affecting a variety of companies such as supermarkets, banks, hospitals, local authorities and offices.
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Economic and environment benefits to be gained from adopting bioprocesses and biofeedstocks
Biotechnologies can provide sustainable feedstocks for energy and low carbon materials, and energy efficient and low waste processes. Peterborough-based sustainable technologies company, the Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng), has packaged its biology-based expertise to advise industry on how to deploy biotechnologies to reduce energy consumption, minimise waste and improve carbon performance.
Bioprocesses and biofeedstocks and can [...]
Peterborough named as one of six UK ‘Zero Waste Places’ by Environment Minister today…
This news comes as the city is on the cusp of formally launching its ambition to create the UK’s Environment Capital in November.
Environment Minister Jane Kennedy made the announcement as part of the governments’ Waste Strategy. The Zero Waste Places will aim to go as far as possible in reducing the environmental impact [...]
October 21st, 2008 | John Pickstone | 0 comments | Continued
PETERBOROUGH ENERGYPARK ADVANCES
PREL - Peterborough Renewable Energy – has unveiled its eagerly awaited plans for the development of a £250m EnergyPark and centre of excellence for renewable technologies. (see Artist’s Impression)
The plans, now being considered by the government, propose the development of just 32% of a 34 acre site in Peterborough’s Fengate partially designated for recycling and [...]
A Credit for incineration is an act against environment. Zero- waste should be the target, with kryo- recycling:
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