Day: 22 October 2010

Gormley gives Dublin go-ahead for arterial watermain

Dublin City Council has been given the go-ahead to invite tenders for the North City Water Supply Scheme by the Department for Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Gas storage licence for North Sea

The government has issued a Gas Storage Licence for a major new gas storage facility in the North Sea at the Deborah field, a depleted off-shore field near the Bacton Terminal.

‘Train of Ideas’ gets Hamburg a green award

Hamburg will be the European Commission's European Green Capital for 2011. The award was announced at the first European Green Capital Conference, currently taking place in Stockholm.

Congestion charge in Western Extension ditched

The congestion charging for the Western Extension zone is to be scrapped after a public consultation run by Transport for London.

Contaminated land and planning conditions

Developers are used to having to provide site surveys of Brownfield sites or expecting planning conditions to deal with clean up of a particular site.

Climate & nature

Opportunity for Defra to get to grips with food labelling laws

News that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to take over policy decisions on food labelling, formerly the remit of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), is an opportunity for greater clarity in this area.

Social sustainability

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