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Journal articles on the topic "Gas industry – England"
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Watterson, Andrew, and William Dinan. "Lagging and Flagging: Air Pollution, Shale Gas Exploration and the Interaction of Policy, Science, Ethics and Environmental Justice in England." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 12 (June 17, 2020): 4320. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124320.
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The science on the effects of global climate change and air pollution on morbidity and mortality is clear and debate now centres around the scale and precise contributions of particular pollutants. Sufficient data existed in recent decades to support the adoption of precautionary public health policies relating to fossil fuels including shale exploration. Yet air quality and related public health impacts linked to ethical and environmental justice elements are often marginalized or missing in planning and associated decision making. Industry and government policies and practices, laws and planning regulations lagged well behind the science in the United Kingdom. This paper explores the reasons for this and what shaped some of those policies. Why did shale gas policies in England fail to fully address public health priorities and neglect ethical and environmental justice concerns. To answer this question, an interdisciplinary analysis is needed informed by a theoretical framework of how air pollution and climate change are largely discounted in the complex realpolitik of policy and regulation for shale gas development in England. Sources, including official government, regulatory and planning documents, as well as industry and scientific publications are examined and benchmarked against the science and ethical and environmental justice criteria. Further, our typology illustrates how the process works drawing on an analysis of official policy documents and statements on planning and regulatory oversight of shale exploration in England, and material from industry and their consultants relating to proposed shale oil and gas development. Currently the oil, gas and chemical industries in England continue to dominate and influence energy and feedstock-related policy making to the detriment of ethical and environmental justice decision making with significant consequences for public health.
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Widger, Phillip, and Abderrahmane Haddad. "Evaluation of SF6 Leakage from Gas Insulated Equipment on Electricity Networks in Great Britain." Energies 11, no. 8 (August 6, 2018): 2037. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en11082037.
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This paper examines the data collected from the power industry over the last six years of actual reported emissions of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and the potential impact. The SF6 emissions have been collated from the 14 different regions in England, Scotland, and Wales (Great Britain) from the six distribution network operators. The emissions of SF6 due to the transmission network of Great Britain have also been collated from the three different transmission network operators. By collecting this SF6 emissions data from the power industry, in both the distribution and transmission networks, an overall view of the scale of SF6 emissions in Great Britain can be evaluated. Data from the power industry also shows the inventory of SF6 power equipment in use over the last six years in Great Britain and shows the calculated percentage leakage rate of all of this equipment. In this paper, these figures, as reported by the electrical power industry to the UK government, have been used to estimate the likely inventory of SF6 equipment in England, Scotland, and Wales by 2050 and the future emissions of SF6 that could be leaked into the atmosphere by this equipment.
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Aryee, Feizel, Anna Szolucha, Paul B. Stretesky, Damien Short, Michael A. Long, Liesel A. Ritchie, and Duane A. Gill. "Shale Gas Development and Community Distress: Evidence from England." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 14 (July 14, 2020): 5069. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145069.
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This research examines psychosocial stress associated with shale gas development through the narratives of residents and the Revised Impact of Event Scale (IES-R). We carried out our research in three of England’s communities impacted by shale gas development. To gather data, we conducted qualitative interviews and engaged in participant observation in all three communities and conducted a quantitative survey of residents. From our qualitative interviews it was apparent that the residents we spoke with experienced significant levels of stress associated with shale gas development in each community. Importantly, residents reported that stress was not only a reaction to development, but a consequence of interacting with industry and decision makers. Our quantitative findings suggest that a significant portion of residents 14.1% living near the shale gas sites reported high levels of stress (i.e., scoring 24 or more points) even while the mean IES-R score of residents living around the site is relatively low (i.e., 9.6; 95% CI 7.5–11.7). We conclude that the experiences, of the three English communities, reported in the qualitative interviews and quantitative survey are consistent with the reports of stress in the United States for those residents who live in shale gas communities. We therefore suggest that psychosocial stress is an important negative externality, which needs to be taken seriously by local planning officers and local planning committees when considering exploration and development permits for shale gas.
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Prescott, C. "Carbon accounting in the United Kingdom water sector: a review." Water Science and Technology 60, no. 10 (November 1, 2009): 2721–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.708.
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The UK is committed to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets and has introduced a number of initiatives to achieve these. Until recently, these targeted energy-intensive industries and, thus, the water sector was not significantly affected. However, from 2010, UK water companies will need to report their emissions under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). Both Ofwat (the economic regulator for water companies in England and Wales) and the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation (NIAUR) now require annual reporting of GHG emissions in accordance with both Defra Guidelines and the CRC. Also, carbon impacts must now be factored into all water industry investment planning in England and Wales. Building on existing approaches, the industry has developed standardised carbon accounting methodologies to meet both of these requirements. This process has highlighted gaps in knowledge where further research is needed.
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Dyer, James A., Xavier P. C. Verge, Raymond L. Desjardins, and Devon E. Worth. "A Comparison of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions From the Sheep Industry With Beef Production in Canada." Sustainable Agriculture Research 3, no. 3 (June 24, 2014): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v3n3p65.
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<p>Sheep production in Canada is a small industry in comparison to other livestock systems. Because of the potential for expansion of the sheep industry in Canada, the GHG emissions budget of this industry was assessed in this paper. The GHG emissions from Canadian lamb production were compared with those from the Canadian beef industry using the ULICEES model. The GHG emission intensity of the Canadian lamb industry was 21% higher than lamb production in France and Wales, and 27% higher than northern England. Enteric methane accounts for more than half of the GHG emissions from sheep in Canada. The protein based GHG emission intensity is 60% to 90% higher for sheep than for beef cattle in Canada. The GHG emission intensity for sheep in Eastern Canada is higher than for sheep in Western Canada. Protein based GHG emission intensity is more sensitive to the difference between sheep and beef than LW based emission intensity. This paper demonstrated that protein based GHG emission intensity is a more meaningful indicator for comparing different livestock species than live weight (LW) based GHG emission intensity.</p>
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May, A. "The benefits of drinking water quality regulation – England and Wales." Water Science and Technology 54, no. 11-12 (December 1, 2006): 387–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2006.893.
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This paper aims to demonstrate that the regulation of drinking water quality in England and Wales has been successful in securing the improvements to drinking water quality resulting in better performance against EU and national standards. The water industry in England and Wales went through a major change in 1989 when suppliers were privatised and the government set up a robust regulatory regime. The regime was necessary as the industry was, as a result of privatisation, a monopoly with customers having no choice of supplier, unlike what was later available with other utilities such as gas or electricity. The regime would protect the interests of the consumer, the environment and public health through the quality of the product. The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), as established in 1990, had to ensure the implementation of the European Drinking Water Directive (DWD) that had been transposed into national legislation. The aim of the DWD is to ensure that all EU Member States provide drinking water of a prescribed quality. In England and Wales, a body was required to oversee the performance of the industry against those standards, reporting to the Government and the European Commission. Through acts and legislation, the set up of the industry, the duties of the suppliers and regulators and the powers available to the regulators were established. The improvements to drinking water quality since privatisation were achieved by massive investment of the privatised water industry overseen by an independent regulator with clear duties and the powers to inspect, enforce and prosecute. The DWI's achievements show that to improve quality performance with the ability to report in detail how the improvements were made with extensive data evidence, a special regulator is required. The DWI advises policy departments and Ministers and when there are serious concerns regarding a threat to human health through drinking water, the highest level of regulatory power is the creation of new legislation, for example, the Cryptosporidium regulations that are unique to the UK. The DWI is more than what is traditionally thought of as a regulator because it has a single remit — drinking water quality — and its style of regulation has been key to improved drinking water quality in England and Wales.
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Sala-Garrido, Ramón, Manuel Mocholí-Arce, María Molinos-Senante, and Alexandros Maziotis. "Comparing Operational, Environmental and Eco-Efficiency of Water Companies in England and Wales." Energies 14, no. 12 (June 18, 2021): 3635. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14123635.
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The assessment of performance of water companies is essential for their regulation. In doing so, several variables and models can be employed. This study evaluates and compares the performance of a sample of English and Welsh water companies from the operational, environmental and eco-efficiency perspectives by applying the non-radial data envelopment analysis range adjusted measure model. This methodological approach allows integrating greenhouse gas emissions as undesirable output. The results indicated that the water industry performed well from an operational perspective. However, environmental inefficiency considerably exists which illustrates the difficulties of the water companies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The average eco-efficiency was 0.783 which means that while expanding water services, water companies could further reduce costs and carbon emissions by 11.7% on average. Other factors such as water treatment complexity and population density significantly affect water companies’ eco-efficiency. Several policy implications are finally discussed.
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Cody, Howard. "Regionalism in a Global Society: Persistence and Change in Atlantic Canada and New England." Canadian Journal of Political Science 37, no. 4 (December 2004): 1039–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423904330210.
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Regionalism in a Global Society: Persistence and Change in Atlantic Canada and New England, Stephen G. Tomblin and Charles S. Colgan, eds., Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004, pp. 333Perceived economic globalization and Europe's progressive supranationalism have inspired a regional politics growth industry, centred on Europe, which addresses how regions increasingly form and operate trans-border institutions. Defining regionalism as the creation of new partnerships or regions across jurisdictions, Memorial University's Stephen Tomblin describes this book's thirteen essays, divided almost evenly between Canadian and American scholars, as an effort to overcome the lack of substantial research on North America's cross-border regions (8). The book will satisfy most readers seeking an update on the slowly growing regional initiatives inside the Atlantic region (only sometimes including Newfoundland) and the states of New England. But as the book's contributors make clear, for all the ever-increasing trans-border truck crossings and energy sales, most recently for Sable Island gas, institutional cooperation between these provinces and states remains limited.
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Cumbers, Andy. "New Forms of Work and Employment in an `Old Industrial Region'? The Offshore Construction Industry in the North East of England." Work, Employment and Society 8, no. 4 (December 1994): 531–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095001709484003.
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This paper examines the nature of the new forms of work and employment brought to the North East of England by the development of offshore construction activities, serving the North Sea's oil and gas industries in the period since the early 1970s. In particular, it assesses the extent to which these activities differ from traditional forms of work and employment organisation within the region. The results of this analysis suggest the need to interpret contemporary patterns of restructuring, both in a particular local labour market context and more generally, as part of an on-going evolutionary process, rather than as a decisive break (or shift) from the past.
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Kim, Harim. "Heterogeneous Impacts of Cost Shocks, Strategic Bidding, and Pass-Through: Evidence from the New England Electricity Market." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 14, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 370–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mic.20190367.
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Industry-wide shocks can have heterogeneous impacts on firms’ costs due to different firm characteristics. The heterogeneity of these impacts is crucial for understanding the pass-through of the shock because of its implications for strategic competition. In the context of the gas price shock in the electricity market, I develop a method to identify the heterogeneous impacts of the shock and show, with a structural analysis, that the heterogeneous feature of the shock induces markup adjustments in firms. Pass-through that is estimated without incorporating the existing heterogeneous impacts fails to reflect the change in competition arising from the shock and is, on average, underestimated. (JEL D24, L11, L94. L95, L98, Q35)
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gas industry – England"
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Nabb, H. "A history of the gas industry in South West England before 1949." Thesis, University of Bath, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374594.
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Cairncross-, Chinnapyel Nancy. "Can the parties to an international sale contract on CIF Incoterms varied in the oil and gas industry achieve the objective of linking the passing of ownership in the petroleum products that are sold from England to South Africa to the passing of risk in those petroleum products by indicating such intention in their contract of sale?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15184.
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This dissertation aims to focus on whether the parties to an international sale contract on CIF Incoterms varied in the oil and gas industry, specifically the petroleum sector, achieve the objective of linking the passing of ownership in the petroleum products1 sold from England to South Africa, to the passing of risk in those petroleum products by indicating such intention in their contract of sale?
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PATERSON, John. "Behind the mask : regulating health and safety in Britain's offshore oil and gas industry." Doctoral thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4746.
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Defence date: 28 June 1997Supervisor: Prof. Gunther Teubner
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Throughout the history of the North Sea as an oil province, the regulation of health and safety at work has proved both difficult and contentious. Successive regulatory approaches have been introduced ranging from an initial formal system in which there was no substantive state intervention, through detailed prescription to the present goal-setting and auditing approach but in each case the law has eventually been accused of being part of the problem rather than the solution. Subjected to the scrutiny of economic and capture theory analyses, the industry and its regulators present an easy target and the economic and power relations revealed tend to favour the lough enforcement of detailed prescriptive regulation. The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, however, seemed to suggest that this was precisely the sort of approach that was inadequate in the context of an industry as complex as offshore oil. The new regime introduced in the aftermath of that disaster which was intended to meet these difficulties has, however, recently been characterised as deregulation and has produced calls for the reintroduction of prescription. The danger of a vicious circle here is clear. This thesis employs a different understanding of regulation and its relationship with the regulated area to reveal the ways in which the prescription/deregulation debate and the models of law which underlie it can mask important features of the regulatory landscape. Drawing on the theory of autopoiesis, the notion that the study area is best understood as being composed of operationally closed but cognitively open communicative systems is taken seriously. The ideas of the system-specific construction of reality according to fixed codes and of self-steering according to variable programmes of difference- minimisation are considered along with their implications for regulation. From this understanding, a methodology based on cognitive mapping is developed which allows the processes of the different systems to be presented in such a way as to allow a second-order observation - that is to say, an observation of what it is that each system can and cannot observe. This approach is used to examine in particular the systems of industry management and of engineering throughout the history of the North Sea as an oil province, as well as the world constructions of politics and of the regulators. Significant among the findings which emerge from this approach are the difference-minimising programmes to which industry management and engineering have operated at various periods. Operating to a programme of the minimisation of economic risk by means of rapid production during the 1970s, for example, industry management was unable to observe the technical and occupational (and, paradoxically, ultimately economic) risks this programme produced. Similarly, the technical risk reduction programme of conservative determinism by which engineering steered itself during the same period served to mask a variety of important factors relevant to the integrity of offshore installations which served in turn to increase costs and thus the economic risk of oilfield developments. In the light of this understanding, the regulatory expectations of politics are revealed as hopelessly inadequate and the full extent of the regulators’ difficulties in the context of a prescriptive regime becomes clear. A similar examination of the 1980s, reveals tentative moves in both industry management and in engineering towards more risk-aware programmes followed by their eventual abandonment in favour of drastic programmes of cost-reduction in the aftermath of the 1986 price collapse - the setting for the Piper Alpha disaster. This leads into an assessment of the new approach to the regulation of health and safety offshore which was introduced following that disaster. By revealing the constructivist and self-steering aspects of the communicative systems of which the regulated area is composed, this approach highlights the difficulties facing prescriptive regulation as well as the dangers of any deregulation. This understanding also reveals the reflexive potential of the new regulatory approach, however. That is to say, its ability to harness the risk-aware programmes in the industry and encourage an ongoing confrontation with the assumptions underlying its operations. The importance of such an approach is demonstrated by an examination of possible risks arising out of new industry management programmes of economic risk reduction - programmes which superficially mark a step change from previous determinism. It is suggested that only by understanding the new approach as an example of reflexive law can the possibility of a vicious circle returning ultimately to prescription be avoided. Only in this way can the masking effects of management and engineering models and of standard legal models be avoided.
Books on the topic "Gas industry – England"
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Heazlewood, C. T. Financial accounting and reporting in the oil and gas industry: La discussion of selected issues including a survey of United Kingdom company practices) : a report prepared for the Research Board of the Instituteof Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. (London?): Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 1985.
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Progressive enlightenment: The origins of the gaslight industry, 1780-1820. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to amend the Gas inspection act. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to incorporate the Canadian Lo[an] and Investment Company. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to incorporate the Quebec [and] New Brunswick Railway Company. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to supervise and control th[e] warehousing, inspecting and weig[h]ing of grain in Manitoba and th[e] North-west Territories. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to incorporate the St. Clair River Railway Bridge and Tunnel Company. Ottawa: I.B. Taylor, 2002.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to incorporate the Holiness Mov[e]ment (or Church) in Canada. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act respecting the Merchants Bank of Halifax, and to change its name to "The Royal Bank of Canada". Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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Commons, Canada Parliament House of. Bill: An act to amend the Land titles act, 1894. Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 2003.
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"ENGLAND AND WALES." In GOVERNING LAW OF OIL AND GAS AGREEMENTS AND OF DISPUTES ARISING IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, 373–89. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781786434654.00038.
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Byatt, Ian. "Managing Water for the Future: The Case of England and Wales." In Managing Water Resources, Past and Present. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199267644.003.0011.
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To understand how things have worked is the best preparation for looking ahead. So I will not gaze into a crystal ball but explain what is happening in England and Wales. I will, however, set out and discuss some scenarios for the future. In 1989 the water industry emerged from the nationalization era which it had entered only fifteen years earlier. It was a late entrant into the world of public corporations that had emerged between the wars, and particularly after 1945—a world that was a product of Fabian thinking and wartime experience. The Fabians provided the intellectual base for ‘gas and water socialism’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two world wars encouraged people to believe that the state could manage our basic industries efficiently, and the inter-war depression drew attention to deficiencies in the working of the market economy. ‘Gas and water socialism’ started in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the municipalities, with gas, water, electricity, and tramways. In the inter-war years there was a movement towards regional, then national operations, culminating in the post-war Nationalization Acts. Consolidation in water followed slowly. The amalgamation of municipal undertakings into ten Regional Water Authorities did not take place until 1973. It brought a host of water and wastewater undertakings onto a river basin basis. A further step was taken in 1983 with the substitution of smaller, more executive boards for the much larger bodies that had included local authority representatives. The model for nationalization in the UK developed from the experience of Herbert Morrison, a key figure in the post-war Labour Government. It involved an arm’s-length relationship with government. By the 19705, the flaws in this model were evident. The boards of the nationalized industries were required to act in the social interest, subject to breaking even financially. The definition of the social interest was the responsibility of the boards, without any clear mechanisms for ministers to influence their decisions. It was never clear what ‘breaking-even’, ‘taking one year with the next’, meant in practice. Moreover, having delegated social functions to such a public not-for-profit body, ministers found it difficult to stay clear.
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Byrne, Jo. "New Horizons." In Beyond Trawlertown, 102–48. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800856554.003.0005.
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Faced with contraction and decline, Britain’s distant-water fishery needed to revise its operations and seek new opportunities. This chapter examines diversification post-1976. In home waters, narrators reveal involvement in the 1970s south-west England mackerel fishing boom; experimental fishing for alternative exploitable species off the British coast and transferring into coastal fishing or into the emerging North Sea gas and oil industry. Further afield, globalisation and the growth of Exclusive Economic Zones saw Hull trawlermen and firms supporting the expansion of overseas fisheries, working in the global oil industry and taking a key role in developing a new British fishery around the Falkland Islands. Narrators describe sunshine, free time and voyages that no longer started and finished at Hull’s fish dock. But they also convey precarity, uncertain payment and dangerous scenarios. In the home port, Hull had survived as a fish handling and processing centre by attracting foreign caught fish to its quay. In the decade after the Cod Wars, life in Hull’s long established distant-water fishery had changed beyond recognition. In 1983, the revised common fisheries policy was finally released to shape a new European fishery. Despite vigorous efforts to diversity, for many trawling firms it was too late and only two continued to operate beyond 1986.
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Keogh, Claire, Angela Tattersall, and Helen Richardson. "Directing Equal Pay in the UK ICT Labour Market." In Information Communication Technologies, 3150–57. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch223.
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The UK labour market is dramatically changing, with rapid technological innovations alongside globalisation where organisations are required to place a premium on human and intellectual capital. The demand for labour is outstripping supply, and businesses are increasingly dependent on their ability to attract, invest in and develop their workforce (Kingsmill, 2003). However, a recent comparative report of the information technology (IT) workforce in Holland, Germany and the UK indicates that women are haemorrhaging out of the IT sector (Platman & Taylor, 2004). Given that presently there is an IT specialist’s skills shortage of 18.4% (IER/IFF, 2003), and female IT managers represent a mere 15% of ICT managers, 30% of IT operations technicians and 11% of IT strategy planning professionals (EOC, 2004a), this suggests that the ICT industry is not equipped for equality and diversity at work. Despite many years of egalitarian rhetoric and 3 decades after the UK Equal Pay Act (1970) was introduced, women still receive on average 18% less than that of their male counterparts working full-time and 41% less than men when working part-time hours. The ESF-funded DEPICT project seeks to identify pay discrimination experienced by women in ICT at a national level throughout England. An important aim is to highlight the impact of pay and reward discrimination has on the underrepresentation of women in the ICT labour market. From this study, we hope to more clearly understand the reasons for the gender pay gap, particularly in the ICT sector; and the impact this has on women’s entry and retention to occupations where they are already severely underrepresented. Equal pay is an issue for all; it’s unjust, unlawful and impacts on social justice, equality and economic performance (EOC, 2001b). Pay is a major factor affecting relationships at work; distribution and levels of pay and benefits affect efficiency of organisations, workforce morale and productivity. It is vital for organisations to develop pay systems that reward workers fairly for the work they perform (ACAS, 2005).
Conference papers on the topic "Gas industry – England"
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Espiner, Richard, David Kaye, Graham Goodfellow, and Phil Hopkins. "Inspection & Assessment of Damaged Subsea Pipelines: A Case Study." In 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2008-64480.
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The Central Area Transmission System (CATS) in the UK sector of the North Sea delivers natural gas through a 404 km pipeline from the CATS riser platform to the North East coast of England. During the summer of 2007 this 36 inch diameter natural gas pipeline was damaged by a vessel anchor. The anchor lifted the pipeline from under the seabed, dragged it across the seabed, bending the pipe and locally deforming it. This event resulted in a significant inspection, assessment and repair programme before the pipeline could safely return to operation. This paper describes the detailed structural assessment of the damaged pipeline and the inspection and repair operations. Following inspection of the pipeline by divers, the damage was assessed using the “Pipeline Defect Assessment Manual” (PDAM). The manual was prepared from research primarily for onshore pipelines: this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of PDAM and key differences in defect assessment for onshore and offshore pipelines. The paper highlights several very important lessons learnt from this incident, including: • the complex stresses developed in a pipeline that is pulled and moved by an anchor; • the need for damage assessment methods for pipe containing high compressive stresses and ‘locked-in’ stresses; • the safety aspects and complexity of inspecting a pressurised and damaged subsea pipeline. These lessons learnt are then translated into recommendations for the industry, and advice to other subsea pipeline operators.
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Mercer, Tim, and Jonathan Francis. "Education and Industry Partnership: A Case Study of Co-Delivery." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16065.
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One of the essential elements for safe operation of a nuclear licensed site is the availability to the licensee in sufficient numbers of suitably qualified and experienced people to carry out and manage the operations and associated design work. In the last few years, there have been a number of reports to illustrate the recent and current problems of recruiting such people to work in the traditional locations for nuclear personnel in the North-West of England. Concern for the immediate future is exacerbated by a peculiar demographic of the people currently employed in positions demanding higher level skills. In response to the growing realization that there is an impending skills gap that needs to be filled, Sellafield Limited’s Talent Management team (and latterly with support of the NDA) have been working with a number of education and training providers to put in place bespoke courses aimed at overcoming this shortage. In the absence of a steady stream of willing graduates from technical and management courses, the primary strategy has been to encourage life-long learning and up-skilling amongst its employees, targeting those who, for whatever reason upon leaving school, missed their opportunity to study and progress to train at a high level, but who possess that potential and have now developed a keenness to proceed with that study in later life. One Foundation Degree has been selected for development of a unique approach to higher education. The work of University of Central Lancashire and its West-Cumbrian education and training partners has featured as a case study in other media, but this paper reports on a fresh development within that work: co-delivery. Co-delivery relates to a partnership of educationalists and industrialists, with an emphasis on industrial numbers on the course development steering group. The means by which a significant proportion of the course is strongly workplace related are presented and the benefits and problems that this introduces are discussed. The course uses the industry as a vehicle to communicate concepts and develop problem-solving skills. Rather than the major vocational aspects being confined to just a few ‘workplace’ modules, the industry permeates all modules and co-delivery is part of a good many. A report is also made on the areas of provision where the major capability and expertise is located in just a few industrialists; and how that aspect is learned within a co-delivery course.
Reports on the topic "Gas industry – England"
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Hart, Lucy. Understanding platform businesses in the food ecosystem. Food Standards Agency, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46756/sci.fsa.puh821.
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for public health in relation to food in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It makes sure that people can trust that the food they buy and eat is safe and is what it says it is. As part of this responsibility, the FSA works to understand the continuing evolution of the food landscape to identify opportunities to improve standards of food safety and/or authenticity. As well as any new or magnified risks from which consumers should be protected. One area that has evolved rapidly is that of digital platforms in the food and drink industry. Consumers are increasingly purchasing food via third party intermediaries, known as ‘aggregators’, from a range of vendors. Digital platforms remain a relatively new concept, with many launching in the past decade. As such, there has been a knowledge gap in government about how these platforms work and how they impact the landscape in which they operate.