UK Business News

UK Chancellor Alistair Darling unveiled plans to support new low carbon industries and boost the use of electric vehicles in businesses through lower taxation.
Darling said that the government would scrap taxes on electric company cars for the next five years and announced 100% first year capital allowances for businesses using electric vans.
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Peterborough Renewable Energy Ltd (PREL), who were recently granted permission by the government to go ahead with plans to build the first Green Energy park in the UK, have welcomed Shadow Chancellor George Osborne’s tax commitments to make landfill a thing of the past.
PREL have pledged their support to the commitment, that if the Conservative [...]

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The UK Government have granted approval for Peterborough Renewable Energy Ltd (PREL) to build a waste recycling and green power plant that they believe could eliminate the need for landfill sites in the area.
PREL say its ‘energy park’ in Peterborough could revolutionise waste management by recycling mixed waste to produce re-usable glass, plastics and metals, [...]

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Pledging For Change Ethical Business Advantage Award 2009
If you own an Ethical Business or know someone who does, this new competition offers the chance to win £5,000 worth of business image development from the brand image experts at Creatively Minded Design.
Pledging For Change is an ethical community interest company promoting networking in the spirit of [...]

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With the newly opened 30 turbine wind farm at Gunfleet off the Essex coast going into production this week the UK will be producing enough wind powered energy to serve all of London south of the Thames it has been claimed.
The UK will be producing four gigawatts of energy from wind powered turbines, putting Britain [...]

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