21 May 2012
Environmental and funding expertise of Burges Salmon helps secure 500kW on-farm anaerobic digestion (AD) facility.
16 August 2011
New guidelines that will apply to aluminium and ferrous scrap in the European Union (EU) from October could change the way material is shipped between member states, affecting scrap prices and market dynamics, said Burges Salmon senior associate Chris Pritchett in an interview with industry publication Metal Bulletin this month.
19 July 2011
A new £45m energy-from-waste facility which will divert 60,000 tonnes of residual household waste away from landfill each year is to be built following the signing of an agreement between Devon County Council ("DCC") and its waste disposal contractor Viridor.
11 July 2011
The English waste market has been going through something of a re-organisation following the removal of a significant number of PFI credits in late 2010 and the contraction of the lending market. While industry heavyweights have for a long while demonstrated that they have the corporate clout to borrow against their balance sheets, other smaller operators are finding it difficult to secure traditional senior debt on acceptable terms in today’s risk-averse lending environment.
20 June 2011
DECC and Defra have published their Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan. It came about after extensive discussions with more than 50 organisations including AD technology providers, food waste producers, academia, power & water utilities, local & national government and trade associations.
09 May 2011
A major Scottish waste contract worth over £100 million has gone from preferred bidder stage to contract signature in just over four months, with help from an experienced legal team from Burges Salmon.
18 August 2010
The Coalition Government plans to implement ‘a huge increase in waste to energy through anaerobic digestion’ by November 2010
18 August 2010
The European Commission has recently approved the Publicly Available Specification for digestate, creating an industry specification against which producers can verify that the digestate they produce is of consistent quality and is fit for purpose.
18 August 2010
Tesco's new distribution centre at Widnes is to be powered completely by renewable energy derived from food waste thanks to a new sustainability partnership with transport company Stobart Group and food waste recycling experts PDM Group.
18 August 2010
Following a lengthy review by Defra, a new regime came into force on 6 April 2010 which has made minor changes to existing small scale waste permitting exemptions.
18 August 2010
In June, the European Commission laid down the steps required to improve EU bio-waste management and take advantage of the significant environmental and economic benefits that this resource can provide.
11 August 2010
Burges Salmon team has advised BiogenGreenfinch, the UK's leading operator of Anaerobic Digestion food waste plants.
25 May 2010
We will be represented on the steering group of a new research project to assess the potential of carbon capture and storage (CCS).
25 March 2010
On 25 March 2010, Defra published an Implementation Plan for the delivery of the recommendations of the Government's AD Task Group to accelerate the public and private sectors' uptake of anaerobic digestion in England.
02 February 2010
Ecotricity has announced plans to provide homeowners with the option to pay for a 'green' gas supply from January 2010.
02 February 2010
An overview of how the UK Government supported the development of Anaerobic Digestion in 2009.
02 February 2010
The UK's biggest biogas facility has been granted planning permission.
02 February 2010
On 19 November Staffordshire county council granted Biffa planning permission a 4MW facility at Polars, Cannock, Staffs.
02 February 2010
Construction on a 190 kWe biogas plant in Herefordshire is planned to start in spring 2010.
02 February 2010
DECC has been granted ministerial approval to launch the 6th round of the Bioenergy Capital Grants Scheme.
24 November 2009
The UK Government has finally increased its efforts to achieve a major increase in the use of anaerobic digestion.
24 November 2009
The Government has pledged an additional £100m to the vehicle scrappage scheme, taking the total contribution to £400m.
24 November 2009
Following revisions to the Waste Framework Directive that were finalised in November 2008, EU Member States have until December 2010 to transpose these revisions into national law.