2 entrepreneurial businessmen with a passion for the environment have joined forces to start a new renewable business in Cornwall.
Rupert Hanbury-Tenison & Robert Stirling are the creators of Moor Heat Ltd; a diverse business utilising the surrounding countryside and providing energy through a range of disciplines including biomass, PV, geothermal and hydro power.
Whilst the Oil Industry continues to dominate the headlines for the recent disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the UK continues to remain confident in what the Oil and Gas Industry can do to help us out of financial deficit. (more…)
We have an ongoing need for skilled Project Managers, Engineers, Site Managers, Technicians and Consultants to work for a major international management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sectors world-wide. With a turnover in excess of £1 billion it’s global business spans 120 countries with over 14,000 staff working in all sectors from transport, energy, buildings, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications. (more…)
We have fantastic opportunities for talented candidates to work with one of the UK’s largest consultancies who are rapidly growing their Nuclear/Oil and Gas function. This company has been in the market since 1970 and is now one of the largest independent firms working with major Nuclear Energy and Oil and Gas producers. Their expertise spans all the engineering disciplines and associated competencies and they are specialists in the application of advanced analysis techniques, combined with practical design and operational experience. (more…)
A press release made by the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) on a long awaited study made by the joint American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) on Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects has been published. (more…)
The most fundamental right is to have a job but this must be balanced against fairness and the rights of workers, Lord Young, minister for postal affairs and employment relations at the department for business, innovation and skills (BIS), told the REC National Convention in London today.
He told the audience of around 200 delegates that the government recognised that many workers enjoy agency work, as it gives them the flexibility and an opportunity to re-enter the labour market: “I see recruitment agencies making a positive contribution to this.” (more…)
Imagine living in a unique land, full of of breathtaking scenery. New Zealand has craggy coastlines, sweeping golden beaches, verdant rainforests, snow-capped alpine mountains, gurgling volcanic pools, fuming active volcanoes, flashing fish-filled rivers and glacier-fed lakes, all beneath a brilliant blue sky.
Breathtaking New Zealand SceneryPair this with a thriving indigenous culture, bustling cosmopolitan cities, traditional towns and friendly people with a distinct lust for life and you have an outstanding and unusual combination.
We currently have some wonderful opportunities for skilled workers in the Roads and Highways Sector who are interested in moving to New Zealand.
If you are experienced in any of the following disciplines, please contact Susan Cardy on 0118 932 0100 for further information or apply online.
In a novel way to highlight the threat of global warming, the Maldives president, vice president, cabinet secretary and 11 ministers staged a 30 minute underwater meeting on Saturday calling on all countries to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.
President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials donned scuba gear and took their seats at a table on the sea floor — 20 feet (6 meters) below the surface of a lagoon off Girifushi, an island usually used for military training. (more…)
Scottish renewable energy projects are in line for more than £100m of European Commission funding.
Among the projects to benefit are a proposed hub for a sea-bed electricity power grid, and a demonstration zone for wind turbines. (more…)
British consumers could soon be lighting their homes and watching television powered by hydroelectricity generated in the fjords of Norway, under plans announced yesterday by National Grid.
The operator of the UK’s network of high-voltage wires said that it was in talks with Statnett, the Norwegian energy company, about laying a £1 billion cable beneath the North Sea to connect the countries. The cable would be owned 50-50 by National Grid and Statnett and at more than 560 miles (900km), the high-voltage link from Kvilldal, Norway, to an unspecified point on the English coast would be the longest of its kind in the world. It would have a capacity of about 1,000 megawatts, about the output of the Dungeness nuclear power station, according to a National Grid official. The companies have carried out a feasibility study and are selecting an optimal route. (more…)
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