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27 July 2010

Flooding v Food

The new Flood and Water Management Act 2010 is likely to have a significant impact on farming operations, especially on low lying land or where there is a farm reservoir or man made lake.  One of the Act's central objectives is to shift the emphasis away from flood defence to "flood and coastal erosion risk management", a concept which allows rural land to flood to protect urban centres. 

25 March 2010

Latest News from Defra - Accelerating the Uptake of Anaerobic Digestion

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.