Climate experts and opposition parties have shown support for the campaigning Conservative Chris Skidmore after he formally resigned as an MP over the government’s Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill.
The Bill would bring in yearly licensing rounds for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, which has been condemned by climate…
The UK government’s UK Export Finance (UKEF) agency has partnered with a range of credit providers to secure €1.2bn (£1bn) in financing for a 140km electrified high-speed rail project in Türkiye.
The project will be delivered by a joint venture between Turkish contractors Doğuş İnşaat, Çelikler and Özkar. This JV was…
Another crack in the railway was found during the night of 7 January which led to the disruption of Great Western Railway (GWR) services on the morning of 8 January.
The latest issue with track in the west of England follows a probe having been launched by the government regulator the…
The aftereffects of Storm Henk continued to disrupt people's lives days after the extreme weather had passed, including the closure of the QEII bridge at Dartford, a burst canal in Hackney Wick and residents evacuated in Gloucester due to flood waters.
With the ground in many places in the south and…
A subsea power hub for floating wind turbines is being piloted by Norwegian headquartered engineering firm Aker Solutions as part of the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) in Norway.
Aker Solutions will provide power transmission technology, which it calls the “Subsea Collector”, for the METCentre test area consisting of two floating…
Farmers across the UK are calling on the government to do more to protect their land from flooding, with standing water still sitting across thousands of hectares of farmland due to Storm Henk.
While farms often have areas allocated for managed flooding, some farmers are complaining that the level of inundation…
A new saltmarsh spanning more than 300ha has been proposed by EDF Energy at Hinkley Point C as an alternative to an acoustic fish deterrent.
The saltmarsh would be created on the River Parrett at Pawlett Hamms near Bridgewater. EDF said it would “create a new habitat for fish and animals,…
Strong winds reaching 160km/h and flooding caused by Storm Henk have damaged railways and roads across southern and western England over the past 24 hours.
Rail With almost 300 flood warnings issued, a tunnel was flooded between Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare leading the line to be shut, according to Great…
The Suffolk nuclear power station Sizewell B, which has been in operation since 1995, has now produced 250TWh of low carbon electricity in its lifetime.
It is the UK’s only Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) and, according to owner and operator EDF, it has produced enough low carbon electricity to power every…
£5bn of new contracts are to be let over the course of 2024 by HS2 Ltd as it says it has hit “peak construction” of the rail project.
It heralded a “giant step forward” for the project and listed a series of achievements so far, as well as work expected to…
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