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In the latest in our series on low-carbon buildings in the UK, we visit London’s Greenwich Peninsula. This area, by the River Thames, used to be home to the biggest gasworks in Europe. Years of development turned it into a toxic wasteland, but now the soil has been cleaned up and restored for new housing and office buildings. Instead of cutting down trees and clearing green fields for development, this is an example of so-called “brownfield regeneration”. The Greenwich Peninsula, on the south bank of the Thames, is still the thriving hive of activity it was a century ago. Yet abandoned factories and obsolete gas holders are a reminder of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution, and the pollution it left behind. Homes and Communities Agency manager, Simon Powell: Initially it was military, it was in relation to weapons, so sort of what we call munitions, literally bullet manufacturing, that kind of use. And then over the last 100 years it was formerly Europe’s largest gasworks. Covering an area of roughly 120 hectares, the peninsula became a toxic wasteland after the decline of industry and shipping. Things started to change in 1966, when the United Kingdom invested in pollution control. According to the varying level of pollution around Greenwich, different clean up methods were used. In the north of the borough, which was seriously contaminated with heavy metals and biochemical waste, soil washing techniques were used. Because the soil carries a negative electric …
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NetworkNewsToday: 11 February 2011 — UNICEF: Pakistan – Six months after the deluge, the waters may have subsided but the impact of this disaster has not and UNICEF is working to ensure that the children who’ve had their first taste of school, maintain their education; and the onset of winter means the agency must work hard to keep children and families warm, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where snow has begun to fall. Helicopters have been flying essential supplies, such as warm clothing, children’s shoes, blankets and newborn kits, to the most vulnerable villages. The children of Pakistan have survived an apocalyptic flood, but now they are risk from the cold. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shireen Zeba, mother: “Happiness is happiness. Happiness is not in our destiny. I will cry to God and ask his help. I hope he answers my prayers; what else can I do” SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mehnaz, 10 years old: “The wall fell on her and I saw her die in front of me” SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Shireen Zeba, mother: “All I can do is cry. She left me, what will I do without her” SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mehnaz, 10 years old: ” I miss her because she used to play with me” SOUNDBITE (English) Shandana Aurangzeb, UNICEF Peshawar: ” People are worried, they are very worried about where they are going to go because they don’t have anything to go back to, all their household belongings are gone, their livelihood is gone and they don’t have any means to set up a new life SOUNDBITE (English) Waseem Ul Haq, Water …
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