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Campaigners flag eco-town park-and-ride worries

8 August 2008

Campaigners against a proposed eco-town at Pennbury, Leicestershire have raised concerns over the amount of additional land being proposed for housing, new roads and park-and-ride sites.

Go-ahead for two wind farms

8 August 2008

Energy secretary John Hutton has approved the UK's fourth largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Norfolk.

Park life

8 August 2008

An improved public realm can play a significant role in curbing climate change impacts by reducing urban temperatures and improving connections between green infrastructure, Huw Morris reports.

All the evidence points to string of broken promises in key policy

By Huw Morris

8 August 2008

It is several centuries old, but the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy still rings true:

Government backs nuclear waste site

8 August 2008

A proposed low-level radioactive waste store near the former Dounreay nuclear power plant has won approval from the Scottish Government environmental agency.

Turbine gains clinch renewables targets

8 August 2008

Scotland is on course to meet its ambitious renewable energy target by 2011, first minister Alex Salmond declared last week.

Partners set hydro focus

8 August 2008

Green Highland Renewables has entered a partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy to build and operate small-scale hydroelectric generating schemes.

Renewables case pushed

8 August 2008

The UK will have "little or no need" for large-scale investment in conventional power plants if it meets renewable energy targets, a report has claimed.

Nuclear storage bid enters mine fracas

8 August 2008

Waste management firm Sita wants to bury radioactive residue in a derelict mine that is already at the centre of a dispute between its owners and local authority planners.

Wicks concedes underspend on wave and tidal energy projects

8 August 2008

A £42 million fund for renewable energy has gone unspent, energy minister Malcolm Wicks has admitted.