October 11th, 2008 by waster
College Proteins has applied under the Irish Strategic Infrastructure Act (SIA) to the board for permission for the development on its existing site in Nobber. On Thursday, the ninth day of the hearing, landowner David Horgan told Oisín Collins for North East Against Incineration that the field was his and he had not been asked [...]
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February 24th, 2008 by waster
In Cornwall, SITA as the County Council’s PPP Waste Contractor, is now 12 months into their circa. 20 year contract and they are progressing the planning stages to develop an energy recovery centre near St Dennis, in the centre of the county The waste centre will be called the Cornwall Energy Recovery Plant (CERC) and [...]
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January 13th, 2008 by waster
Veolia Environmental Services and Beacon Landfill Gas Holdings Wins National EPA Award BusinessWire, Comtex KERSEY, Pa., Jan 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia ES) is pleased to announce that the high Btu landfill gas project installed on its Greentree Landfill was chosen as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (EPA [...]
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January 8th, 2008 by waster
Energy giant buys deal. 02-01-2008 Scottish and Southern Energy has acquired Slough Heat and Power, which runs one of the UK’s largest biomass plants using wastes to generate energy, in a £49.25 million deal. Slough Heat and Power, which operates a combined heat and power plant, has been acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy. The power [...]
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December 10th, 2007 by waster
At present more than 65% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in England is disposed of in landfills. The introduction of the EC landfill directive means that the European Commission has set targets to reduce the levels of biodegradable materials going to landfill. The most significant challenge facing the management of Municipal Solid Waste [...]
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October 28th, 2007 by waster
We are well into the conference season and frankly we have never seen so many renewable energy events and conferences as this season. It seems that all the major event players will soon have their own offering. This is a very last minute opportunity for booking attendance for the NCE (New Civil Engineer magazine/EMap) 1 [...]
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