Archives for 2011

It is the first local authority in Wales to get EVs in its fleet, which was funded through a £500000 Welsh Assembly Sustainable Travel Centres grant. Stephen Pilliner, the council’s transport manager, said that the EVs, two Mitsubishi i-MiEVs, …

A farm walk at an organic farm in the Llanthony Valley Vale of Ewyas Monmouthshire, Wales. Photograph: Jeff Morgan/Alamy I have been endlessly looking for an environmentally educational holiday and was wondering if you might be able to help me out. …

It’s not so bad in the summer but in the winter it’s dead,” said Clive who also holds a Farmer’s Market the third Saturday of every month. “We also have a Farmer’s Market once a month in the pub and they’ve been going very good attracting local produce …

SBEC is the result of a collaboration between the Welsh Assembly Government, the Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI) and Tata Steel. Based at Tata Steel’s Shotton, operation in Flintshire, it will be a showcase for sustainable products and used to …

The race to install Wales’ first tidal energy farm heated up yesterday after the government approved plans for a 1.2MW device in Ramsey Sound off Pembrokeshire. The £70m ‘Deltastream’ project was given the green light by Chris …

Plans for a power-generating tidal farm off the north Wales coast have been submitted. The £70m project for the underwater turbines, off the north west coast of Anglesey, was first announced three years ago. Marine Current Turbines (MCT) and RWE npower …

There would also be a new approach to the organic scheme, with continued support offered to organic farmers. But she added that CLA Wales had been disappointed by some measures, such as the exclusion of boundaries. She hoped the promise that WAG would …

The transfer is a key part of the government’s promised abolition of quangos, which has also seen the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) abolish a large proportion of its arms-length bodies. Local people are to have a greater …