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Extracts from the Nov-Dec 2002 edition of Renew
These extracts only represent about 25% of it
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Contents

1. More Offshore Wind - and wave and tidal. But ARBRE dies

2. PV Lifts off : more PV net metered

3. Community Energy and Regional Renewables….

4. MP’s debate energy policy

5. UK Energy Review: The debate gets aggressive

6. OFGEM tries to be Green

7. Time for Industrial Action : DTI Renewables Funding

8. UK Wind Backlash continues

9. Cleaner Coal ?

10. PIU Waste Project

11. Wind around the world

12. Action and reaction on Climate Change:

EU, US, China, New Zealand, Australia

13. WWF’s ‘EUGENE’

14. Earth Summit and G8

15. The British Nuclear Energy Crisis: BE nears collapse

10. PIU Waste Project

The Cabinet Office Performance and Innovation Unit has been looking at waste management policy, with the aim exploring ‘a variety of policy options to allow England to meet the EU Landfill Directive and to move to a more sustainable waste management system’.

As with its previous energy study, the PIU has been taking evidence from a wide range of organisations, and should be reporting soon. There is a useful ‘scoping’ paper on the PIU web site, outlining the basic issues. What is striking is that the UK still landfills over 80% of its waste, vastly more than any other EU country, but only burns around 6%, much less than anyone else. Its not much better at recycling - at 8%, far les than any other country. With landfill being pressured out, and mass incineration blocked, where is it all going to go? Can we really expand recycling that much? Is mass composting safe? Can we develop pyrolysis and gasification to take over from incineration? These are some of the issues the PIU will have to get to grips with. We will be reporting in due course.

Meanwhile see: www.piu.gov.uk/2001/Waste/summ.shtml

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