Is This The Slowest Station Rebuilding Project?
I first wrote about the rebuilding of Old Street station and the remodelling of Old Street Roundabout in Is Silicon Roundabout Going To Become Silicon Peninsular?, which I posted on Christmas Day 2014.
I also wrote Silicon Roundabout Goes Two-Way in May 2019.
Today I took these pictures of new buildings around Moorgate station.
All were empty sites in 2019.
I took these pictures of the roundabout.
Progress doesn’t seem to be very fast.
UK In Hydrogen Breakthrough As New £26m Deal With Japan To Help Tackle Energy Crisis
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Central.
These two paragraphs explain the deal.
The UK has received a major boost to its hydrogen ambitions as a Japanese energy company is set to sign a £26million deal to develop green hydrogen projects in Wales.
The local council of Bridgend in Wales has signed a memorandum of understanding with Marubeni, a Japanese green energy specialist company. The agreement sets out proposals to develop a new 5MW-class green hydrogen initiative after the company decided to pick Wales as the preferred UK location for a green hydrogen demonstrator project.
These two paragraphs describe how the hydrogen will be used.
Through this deal, the Welsh Government hopes that the project would generate clean fuel for fleet vehicles ranging from council gritters to recycling and refuse collection lorries.
The company is also trying to figure out how hydrogen fuel might be used to heat buildings such as schools, residential homes, and local swimming pools.
We need more projects like these to cut carbon emissions.
When is Sadiq Khan going to produce a hydrogen strategy for London, to help clean up the city’s polluted air?
New Homes For Newts: Industry Leading Licence Protects Species From Vital Rail Upgrades
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from Network Rail.
This is the introductory paragraph.
The industry leading initiative will see specialists build new, large-scale habitats for great crested newts to move to when crucial railway upgrades disrupt their existing homes. This balance will allow the amphibians to thrive in a safe environment and in turn reduce any delays to engineering work.
Hopefully, this will lead to the end of delays to engineering work caused by newts on the line.
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