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CL:AIRE Conference: The Story of the Enabling Works at the Olympic Park - 04/11/2010
Location: One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA.
CL:AIRE has been given permission by London 2012 to tell the remarkable story of how a vast, contaminated, brownfield “megasite” in East London was prepared, cleaned and made fit for purpose – for the building of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games infrastructure.
CL:AIRE to lead UK Study into the use of Iron Nanoparticles in Soil & Groundwater Remediation
CL:AIRE is delighted to announce their successful bid for the Defra Research Contract: “A risk/benefit approach to the application of iron nanoparticles for the remediation of contaminated sites in the environment”. CL:AIRE is supported in this research project by r3 Environmental Technology Ltd (UK), Land Quality Management Group (UK), Deltares (Netherlands) and Geosyntec (USA). The project team will be delivering a final report to Defra in early 2011 which will be independent, non-aligned, cross sectoral and will be made publicly available.
SuRF Free Internet Seminar Available to Download
US and EU Perspectives on Green and Sustainable Remediation
This interactive internet seminar was hosted as a primer to the Special Session 8A “Sustainable Remediation: International Developments” being presented during ConSoil 2010.
The seminar was open to the public and over 170 people from 16 nations participated. International leaders of sustainable and green remediation initiatives discussed their organisations’ drivers, goals and constraints, as well as the impacts of drivers and constraints on their efforts.
The panel of speakers included representatives from the USEPA; EC; SURF US, SuRF-UK, and SURF NL; EURODEMO+; NICOLE; and the Common Forum. An open forum was held after the presentations in which participants were able to submit questions to the speakers.
An archived version of the internet seminar including the audio portion of the seminar is available at www.cluin.org/consoil.
Rushlight Awards - Call for Entries
Call for Entries – closing date 31 October 2010.
The Rushlight Awards promote and celebrate the leading energy, resource and environmental technologies and innovations by organisations throughout UK and Ireland.
With 24 separate categories covering renewable energy, clean fuels, energy efficiency, power generation, green products and services, water, waste and environmental monitoring and management, these awards will highlight the technologies and innovations that are shaping the energy, transport, environment and industry sectors in the future.
Sustainabilitylive! 2011 Dates Announced
Sustainabilitylive! will take place on 24-26 May 2011 in halls 3 and 3a at the NEC, Birmingham.
Sustainabilitylive! 2011 is an essential day out for anyone in business today. It confronts some of the leading issues facing 21st century businesses, including the energy crisis, environmental processes, sustainability and water supply.
For more information about the conference please click here>>>
Environmental Audit Committee Announced
The House of Commons formally agreed the membership of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). Following on from the election of Joan Walley MP as Chair of the Committee, the members are: Peter Aldous MP, Richard Benyon MP, Neil Carmichael MP, Martin Caton MP, Katy Clark MP, Zac Goldsmith MP, Simon Kirby MP, Mark Lazarowicz MP, Caroline Lucas MP, Ian Murray MP, Sheryll Murray MP, Caroline Nokes MP, Mark Spencer MP, Dr Alan Whitehead MP and Simon Wright MP.
Upcoming Events and Training Courses
- Fears over plans for primary school on polluted land - Environmental Data Interactive
- Brazil court orders Shell, BASF to pay $654m - tce today
- Impact of new soil remediation policy - International Law Office
- Managing contaminated land - Lexology (registration)
- Remediation certificates – creating new opportunities for redeveloping ... - Lexology (registration)
