By Sara Jerome@sarmje USA Water Online: ‘As new technologies promise to treat fracking wastewater to a point where it can be reused, there’s a new question: Is it clean enough to drink? Probably not, researchers say. Returning fracking wastewater to the environment “is just as risky as dumping any municipal treated wastewater back into rivers. […]

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Solent Forum: ‘Some 340 European scientists, policy-makers and other experts, including representatives from the National Oceanography Centre, have agreed a common vision of priorities for marine research and action until 2020. They published the Rome Declaration at the EurOCEAN 2014 conference in Italy – an important document which presents a shared goal of how marine […]

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Owen Paterson’s views were doing no favors to the Government’s claim to be, ‘the Greenest Government ever’ and his outpourings since have only highlighted the Government’s view on many environmental issues (see Environmental Audit Report below). His replacement,  Liz Truss, whilst still firmly in the promoting farming and fishing business camp, is presenting a more […]

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Environment Agency: ‘Bathing water in the UK is protected by EU Directive 76/160/EEC, which will be replaced by Directive 2006/7/EC in 2015. We are currently in a transitional stage between the two Directives. The new Directive sets tighter standards for bathing water quality. Each year the Environment Agency assesses what the classifications would have been, […]

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16th Annual ‘Area Involved’ Marine Aggregates Report Published – new report available from BMAPA and The Crown Estate   This report may be downloaded from The Crown Estate website at: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/news-and-media/news/2014/16th-annual-area-involved-report-for-marine-aggregates-published/ Summary The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate have published their 16th annual ‘Area Involved’ report, which details changes in […]

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