As night descends on the grand offices of Lincolnshire county council, everything appears orderly and calm. Paintings of long-forgotten councillors and dignitaries stare out into an empty drawing room. The council chamber is silent and dark. Bored receptionists glance at their phones while a handful of admin staff hunch over glowing screens. But a rebellion is…
Officers searched the premises on 4 March after receiving reports of baled waste. Source link
Officers searched the premises on 4 March after receiving reports of “baled” waste, bags full of shredded rubbish. Higginson said: “This order follows on from the successful restriction orders we obtained at Eastchurch and Minister on the Isle of Sheppey, and at Hoads Wood near Ashford, and shows we will act against those who flout…
Concerns around energy and water use of wave of new hyperscale facilities under development They have been pioneered by the titans of big tech such as Google and Microsoft as a way of handling the vast computational demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and are regarded by some as the next frontier of Scotland’s…
The European Commission has urged European Union members to start filling gas storage facilities slowly and steadily to avoid exacerbating price pressure caused by the war in the Middle East. Amid the energy crisis triggered by Russia as it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Brussels put in place a law requiring Europe’s gas storage facilities to…
Alarming levels of toxic forever chemicals have been found in the blood of people living in a town previously revealed to be contaminated with the UK’s highest recorded level of Pfas. Pfas, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and commonly known as forever chemicals because of their persistence in the environment, have been linked to…
The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined. As warplanes, drones and missiles kill thousands of people, level infrastructure and turn the Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone, the first analysis of…
Water is at the heart of all things. It gives life to people and communities, it is the foundation of our natural world, and it powers our economies. So, as we celebrate World Water Day and the second World Day for Glaciers, let us remember the indispensable role water plays in our world. And let…
Concerns about illegal waste at the yard had been raised several times before a judge ordered the site to temporarily close. Previous enforcement orders at the site had failed to stop unlawful activity on the land, the BBC reported at the time. A large-scale operation – including about 100 officials from the police, council, RSPCA…
At a commercial tree nursery near Evans, western Louisiana, 5m pine seedlings are packed on to 12 vast circular irrigation tables, each as wide as a football field. Last September, many of these young trees were sprayed with what looked like muddy water. The substance was in fact a liquid extract teeming with hundreds of…
