The company building Hinkley Point C has been told by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it must comply with Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), following a challenge by Fish Legal.
Campaign groups have been successful in bringing legal action against the previous government's granting of planning permission for a deep coal mining scheme in Cumbria.
A single publicly owned body responsible for the strategic design of Great Britain’s gas and electricity networks will be launched on 1 October.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published the first ever nuclear heritage vision and strategy.
Civil engineering and related industries have welcomed the election of new select committee chairs at the start of the new parliament.
An environmental expert has welcomed plans by EDF Energy for a relocated saltmarsh to be created near Hinkley Point C, but raised concerns about the power station’s destruction of fish populations.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has launched hazard mapping tools showing the risk of earthquakes in the UK’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to support offshore energy developments.
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has sent out a warning to decision makers to ensure that lessons are learned from the struggles of High Speed 2 (HS2) as the country embarks on other major infrastructure projects.
A 60% increase in the number of jobs in nuclear in the UK in just 10 years has driven the sector to a record-breaking 86,908 jobs, according to the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA).
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Aecon, AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Laing O’Rourke as part of efforts to deploy its BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR) in the UK.
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