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Day: 4 March 2011

£1billion gas power plant gets green light

A state-of-the-art £1billion 2,000MW gas power plant is to be built after ministers backed plans by RWE npower today (March 4).

Shadow energy minister backs Save Our Solar at Ecobuild

Shadow energy minister Huw Irranca-Davies joined solar campaigners at Ecobuild yesterday (March 3) to pledge his support.

Use ‘Big Society’ ideas for localising carbon cutting

Carbon cutting initiatives should have been refocused on local areas instead of just being scrapped later this month (March), according to one Carbon Trust consultant.

Pipeline project comes into focus

The £125M West East Link Main (WELM) pipeline scheme for United Utilities is one of the most ambitious pipeline projects that the North-west of England has ever seen. Maurice Corridan, project director at J Murphy & Sons, gives the low-down on the project.

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