Environmental, Waste and Renewables Update

Here is a summary of today's Environmental, Waste and Renewables news:

BBC: Hydrogen plant promises jobs at old nuclear site

A green hydrogen project hopes to deliver dozens of new jobs next to a former nuclear power station site in southern Scotland.  Green Cat Hydrogen (GCH) said its proposed development at Chapelcross, near Annan, could help to decarbonise local businesses.  The nuclear plant ceased generating electricity in 2004 and its cooling towers came down a few years later.

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STV: Waste water could provide heat for buildings in Inverness

Inverness is to benefit from a new “cutting-edge” low-carbon heat network.  The Highland city has been selected as the project’s location, under the collaboration between SSE Energy Solutions and Scottish Water Horizons. The green energy project will be established in the Longman Drive area.

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Guardian: Loch Ness hydro storage schemes fuel local anxiety

As energy firms race to meet challenges of storing power, critics worry about fluctuations in the depth of the loch. Overnight, Foyers, a small pumped-storage power station, had recharged itself, drawing up millions of litres of water into a reservoir high up on a hill behind it, ready for release through its turbines to boost the UK’s electricity supply. 

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Insider: Proposed 'ocean cluster' could treble industry value

The chief executive of Seafood Scotland has called on industry partners to back the creation of a Scottish ‘ocean cluster’, which it claims could unlock three times more value from Scotland’s seafood industry.

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