20 Jul 2016
BBC Flood Review Roger Harrabin ‘The Government’s Flood Resilience review was due to be published this week, but has been postponed because the politician in charge, Oliver Letwin, lost his seat in Cabinet. [And floods minister Rory Stewart have been moved on – no surprise that this has been delayed] It is expected to be […]
20 Jul 2016
Scottish Government: More than 10,000 families are to benefit from a ten year strategy to protect homes in many of Scotland’s most flood-prone communities. The plan is the result of grant funding totalling £420 million and follows an agreement reached between the Scottish Government and COSLA. The cash will be used to deliver 40 new […]
20 Jul 2016
Not business as usual – clear evidence mounting of European funding collaborations being damaged Although the Science and Technology Committee announced their review several weeks ago, their chair has just been reshuffled to Health, and their progress seems likely to be a little sedate because there are very real challenges now. Two articles: Academies write […]
20 Jul 2016
United Utilities (UU) and its contractor have been fined almost £1 million for polluting a brook. The water company has been sentenced to pay £600,000 and contractor KMI+ has to pay £330,000, according to the Environment Agency. KMI+ was contracted by UU to carry out improvement works at Wayoh water treatment works at Turton Bottoms, […]
20 Jul 2016
With Truss, Letwin and Stewart moved on there will be a continuing need to remind the new ministers of the value of catchment solutions. Two updates and interesting information River restoration Centre, Holnicote Natural Flood Management Project members site visit by Jasmine Errey on Monday, 18th July, 2016 ‘On the first Wednesday of July we […]
20 Jul 2016
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17 Jul 2016
The CBESS (A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins) project has produced a free tool for predicting and mapping carbon stock in salt marshes. The tool is for governmental and non-governmental organisations that have interests in salt marshes and are seeking information about natural carbon […]
17 Jul 2016
The £10 million East Coast Community Fund announced in April by DONG Energy is now open to public consultation. National grant-making charity GrantScape has been appointed to complete the consultation process and to administer the Fund. The Fund will ensure that local people benefit from the operation of two of the DONG Energy’s offshore wind […]
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