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Ecotricity’s green gas mill has been given the go-ahead to be built. The project at Sparsholt College in Hampshire – the first of its kind in Britain – received planning permission this week from Winchester City Council. The £10 million green gas mill funded by Ecotricity will be fuelled by locally sourced grass and produce enough clean gas to heat over 4000 homes per year. The project is also expected to inject £60 million into the local economy. As part of the partnership, Ecotricity will also help fund the development of a Renewable Energy Demonstration Centre at the college. The college has also agreed funding of a £1.2 million in grant from the Local Enterprise Partnership (M3 LEP).  Ecotricity founder Dale Vince said: “This is great news, green gas from grass has so much to offer Britain, and this planning consent gives us the opportunity to get started.  “Earlier this week the government overruled the local planners in Lancashire to grant approval for the first Fracking site in Britain – as opinion polls show opposition to Fracking reaching an all-time high.  “Green gas is the answer; Hampshire looks set to lead the way.” The original planning application for the site was refused in April 2016 but the supplier addressed the transport concerns in a fresh application and included significant traffic alterations and new information. Sparsholt College principal Tim Jackson said: “I had every confidence that the planning committee would see the logic of this application which is entirely in line with local and national planning policy.  “The low carbon aspirations of Winchester through their Low Carbon Strategy are commendable but ambitious, and it needs projects like this one at Sparsholt College to help the 20 per cent target of energy generated from renewables by 2020 to stand any chance of meeting this.” Ecotricity introduced the concept of making green gas from grass in Britain early last year, and says it will be full speed ahead to complete the necessary preparation before construction can begin on its latest project.   This month, the green supplier also told Utility Week that it would be interested in entering the water market and taking “an eco-approach to water”. Source link

22 August 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal Churchill has announced a new four-year partnership with Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, to deliver catering, vending and corporate hospitality services at Hammersmith and Fulham College, Ealing Green College and at Southall Community College.   Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College provides education and training for more than 20,000 students studying a huge range of subjects and levels. The college is also a member of the 157 Group – a consortium of 29 of the UK’s largest further education (FE) colleges.   In a statement, Churchill said it would introduce a “bespoke food offer to rival well-known high street brands and improve the overall dining experience by installing cashless till systems across all campuses”.   Churchill currently delivers catering services to a number of other FE and higher education establishments, including Barnfield College, The Royal Veterinary College, and Tameside College. Source link

Let’s be CO safe abroad, says APPCOG Published:  16 May, 2016 The All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group (APPCOG) has called for greater awareness amongst travellers regarding carbon monoxide (CO) safety, and for both the government and travel industry to act to help keep Britons abroad safe from CO. This follows a recent panel discussion chaired by David Burrowes MP, called following the death of Francesca Dingley from CO poisoning in Chengdu, China in 2015. The panel featured evidence from Mark Dingley, Francesca’s father, alongside the CO All Fuel Forum’s Leigh Greenham, and Angela Hill, destinations services manager at the Association of British Travel Agents. Mr Dingley urged the audience that CO alarms should be seen as an essential travel item, and that the travel industry should do more to promote the need for holidaymakers to take alarms with them when they travel. Additionally, Mr Dingley urged that advice on CO included on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website should be made more prominent, and be delivered more forcefully. Research by the Safer Tourism Foundation has revealed that just 5% of respondents consider CO risks before going on holiday, despite the same research finding that 1 in 10 of the 12,000 respondents surveyed had been affected some way by CO. Image courtesy of Shutterstock/ Leena Robinson Source link

Jersey Water’s application to allow the pesticide oxadixyl to exceed the legal limit in the island’s mains water has been granted. The dispensation, involving a key reservoir that was brought back into service this month, has been approved by Jersey’s environment minister Steve Luce. The regulatory limit for oxadixyl in treated water is 0.1ug/l which is equivalent to one part in 10 billion. The new temporary limit has been set at 0.3ug/l, 100 times lower than the already prudent health-based limit of 30ug/l. Jersey Water said it has so far been able to keep the levels below the regulatory limit but may need to rely on the dispensation in the event that oxadixyl levels increase over the summer. The dispensation will remain in place for up to three years while the company researches and implements a long-term treatment solution to the oxadixyl problem. The company brought Val de la Mare reservoir back in to service at the beginning of June after five months, following the discovery in February of pesticide oxadixyl in streams feeding the reservoir. To enable the water from Val de la Mare to be used over the summer, the company applied for a temporary dispensation under the Water (Jersey) Law 1972 allowing it to exceed the regulatory limits. Jersey Water chief executive Helier Smith said: “The need for a dispensation in this instance is principally a legal and regulatory compliance matter rather than a health-based issue. The water that we supply will remain safe to drink. “The presence of oxadixyl in Val de la Mare reservoir and elsewhere is historic and has arisen due to factors outside of the company’s control. We are working hard to find a way to remove oxadixyl through treatment but in the meantime will work to complying with the lower regulatory limit where it is practical for us to do so.” Val de la Mare Reservoir represents 35 per cent of the company’s water storage capacity. A version of this article first appeared on wwtonline Source link