25 May 2016
Insight from Environmental Professionals on the EU ‘The Society for the Environment was pleased to team up with the ENDS Report to explore the thinking of environmental professionals on membership of the European Union. The survey results of almost 1,000 practitioners revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that they believe the EU has been a force for progress on environmental […]
25 May 2016
OK it’s a Ministerial photo opportunity to highlight a major European contribution …. Would the Brexiters fund this type of work? Defra: The MoorLIFE 2020 project – which received €12 million funding from the European Union – will restore and preserve areas of blanket bog developed over thousands of years which are internationally rare due […]
25 May 2016
Senate committee passes water reuse bill The Environment and Public Works committee of the United States senate has passed new legislation to support water reuse and critical investment in water infrastructure. The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), passed on 28 April 2016, is the main vehicle for authorising water projects to be developed by the […]
25 May 2016
Another useful day highlighting a worldwide problem which is a major issue in UK Rivers – I wonder what happened to the Government’s promised legislation? Environment Agency: More than 20,000km of England’s rivers have been opened up to improve fish migration over the last 4 years – the equivalent distance of London to Rio and […]
23 May 2016
Greenpeace ‘Small scale fishermen in England are struggling to retain their livelihood, while multi-million pound companies buy up the majority of fishing right, according to a new investigation by Greenpeace. The investigation revealed that just three companies own nearly two-thirds of England’s fishing quota while some fishermen hoard quota on vessels which never cast a […]
23 May 2016
Tom Appleby, van der Werf, and Chris Williams have analysed the current situation in a recent paper. Abstract/Description The UK’s fishery is a public asset worth in the region of £1,125 million. The free allocation of quota to commercial businesses on the basis of 2 years’ track record is a similar process to permitting that […]
23 May 2016
Despite the delay, this project still has a great deal of support. Wales Online: Swansea Bay tidal lagoon enjoys strong support from MPs and Conservative councillors according to a new poll. The survey, carried out by ComRes for Tidal Lagoon Power, found that 83% of Conservative MPs and 71% of Labour MPs support the project. […]
23 May 2016
Peter Jones: New critical analysis paper: Marine Spatial Planning in Reality – concludes “that the realities of how marine spatial planning (MSP’ing) is working contrast with widely recognised concepts and ideals as to how MSP’ing should work, as integrated-use MSP’ing based on political expedience and blue growth priorities is diverging from and potentially competing with […]
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