Day: 8 September 2005

Uranium surge leaves Oz with diplomatic dilemma

Soaring oil costs combined with a growing Asian nuclear love affair have combined to push uranium prices through the roof.

Unholy row over Church’s development plans for allotments

An unholy row has broken out over plans to develop a series of allotments, near Bicester in Oxfordshire, and build car parking and office space.

Additional ROCs for Scottish marine power

Marine power in Scotland is set to get a major finance boost in order to provide up to 10% of Scotland's electricity and create 7,000 jobs.

Incineration out for huge Lancashire waste contract

One of the UK's largest ever waste contracts has ruled out incineration for the next 25 years.

Scotland aims to get freight on right track

Plans to move freight off the roads and onto the rails have received a cash boost in Scotland.

Water companies perform well despite low spending

Water companies have performed better than expected by the regulator despite investing less than expected over the last five years.

Wyvern selects Liebherr loader as prime handler

Wyvern's landfill site at Poole in Somerset was once a clay quarry and, having been worked out, was converted to a landfill site and started taking domestic waste in 1970. Since that time, it has received some 100,000 tonnes a year from the Wellington and Taunton catchment areas. Now the landfill operation has come to the end of its life and the area is to be restored and landscaped, meaning that household waste which cannot be recycled will now have to be taken to other landfill sites. To deal with this, Wyvern has built a waste transfer station adjacent to the landfill site which, annually, will handle around 50,000 tonnes of local waste before it is transported to other landfill sites in the county.

Mawsley Machinery aids clean up in Northamp

Northampton-based construction equipment dealer, Mawsley Machinery, has been chosen by the Northampton Borough Council in its pledge to get Northampton involved in a nationwide recycling scheme.

Hyundai wheel loader serves Sheffield recycling station

Viridor Waste Management has added a new Hyundai HL760-7 wheel loader to its equipment fleet at the busy Salmon Pastures waste recycling, treatment plant and transfer station at Attercliffe Road in Sheffield.

Municipal waste recycling on the upward trend

The full 2003/04 Municipal Waste Management Survey report for England shows that the total amount of municipal waste has fallen slightly to an estimated 29.1 million tonnes in 2003/04 compared with 29.4 million tonnes in 2002/03, a decrease of one per cent. This was the first time, in recent years, that there has been a reduction in municipal waste arisings.

Special Terex-Atlas loader fills recycling role

Stonegrave Aggregates, part of the Durham-based John Wade Group, has installed a new specially-configured Terex-Atlas loader at its fast-expanding recycling facility at Aycliffe Quarry, near Darlington in county Durham.

Sudden decline

Robert Martin and Marcel Steward reflect on the uncertain future of Sudden & Accidental pollution insurance and the possible alternative insurance of the future

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