Month: July 2004

Technically speaking

Black & Veatch's Frank Rogalla, with co-author Grzegorz Bujocze, looks at handling solids for low nutirent residuals

Can Africa, India and Asia Relieve the EU’s Biofuel Famine?

D1 Oils, a new bio diesel company, certainly thinks so. Rather than rely on subsidised rapeseed and sunflower oil to meet the EU’s rapidly growing demand for biodiesel, D1 says the fuel should be sourced from the developing world. This will mean low carbon transport for the EU and jobs in the developing world’s agricultural sectors currently unable to sell to the EU because of tariffs. Sounds too good to be true? D1’s chairman, Karl Watkin, sets out his case.

Emissions trading: will it work?

January 1st 2005 sees the beginning of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS) under which up to 15,000 energy intensive ‘installations’ will trade carbon dioxide emissions allowances within limits set by the EU Commission. But how will the EUETS actually work? Lionel Fretz, head of Financial Products for the specialist merchant banking firm Climate Change Capital, gives his view.

Too Big A Bill!

Liberal Democrat Energy Spokesman Andrew Stunell MP argues that the Government's Energy Bill is missing the point and costing the Earth

Washing up

Mike Wilyman, remediation director, Carl Bro Engineering Consultants and Guy Pomphrey, manager, DEC Environmental Contractors, outline the benefits of soil washing

Sorting out CS2

Richard Thurgood of CEL International and Philip Morgan of ESI describe the investigation and remediation of a carbon disulphide contaminated site

Land full

Clive Boyle, director of QDS Environmental and Adrian Needham, technical director of EDGE Consultants UK, explain the implications for developers of the Landfill Regulations

Acting on impacts

Environment Business asks whether the 2000 amendment to the Pensions Act has led trustees to change their investment behaviour - and if sustainable industries will benefit

Health environments

The NHS has discovered the value of environmental reporting. Peter McCrum examines the benefits

An EPIC adventure

Steve Livingstone, environmental manager at Jackson Civil Engineering, explains the Environment Performance Improvement Club

Making PFI/PPP waste projects work

Ann Barrett, vice president of the environmental practice of Marsh, discusses risk management of waste projects

Labour’s failure

Shadow environment minister Richard Ottaway sets out what he says is a catalogue of failures by the Labour government

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