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Please Sign our Petition to No.10 Downing Street!

Please add your name to our petition to the Prime Minister to seriously consider Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) as an answer to Energy Needs. All those with voting rights in the UK can sign, do please add you name and tell all you know. We only have untill July 2008.

Link: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CleanCoalUCG/

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to seriously consider Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) as an answer to Britain's Energy Needs

Clean Coal Technology is the real answer to our energy needs. UCG provides a clean energy source of a size matching world energy needs and within a short time frame. UCG is a method of converting unworked coal into a combustible gas which can be used for heating, power generation or the manufacture of hydrogen, synthetic fuel ro diesel fuel. The gas can be processed to removed CO2 content thereby providing a source of clean energy with minimal greenhouse gas emissions. Coal accounts for 95% of the fossil fuel energy content of the planet- hundreds of years of energy. Security of supply, potential for CO2 capture and storage, low cost production and rapid development to fill the energy gap are the principal motivators for the unprecedented increase in UCG activity around the world.  Britain should embrace UCG.

UCGP 3rd International Conference a huge success.

With a comprehensive programme featuring, presentations from all over the world plus a UCG  Workshop, our two day Annual Conference in February was extremely well attend. with over 19 different presentations from all over the world the speaker list was as global as the delegtaes.The delegate numbers surpassed our expectations , over 130 attendees representing 35 different nations and the level of participation, interaction and questions was lively and encouraging, especially during our first Workshop day.

We would like to extend warm thanks to all the speakers and participants and a special acknoweledgement to our  two venue hosts and sponsors, Delloitte and ABN Amro. The facilities and staff support at both venues was superb,

Deloitte hosted our first Workshop day, at their Academy in London. Designed and used specifically to encourage knoweledge sharing and further career development for Deloitte clients and employees, this  fine venue provided an excellent  and fitting setting for the event.

ABN Amro generously hosted the Conference Day and Drinks reception in the stunning Atrium section of the Bishopsgate Head Office. During the extended lunch period, delegates made the most of the networking opportunities and the few members who booked  the free showcase promotion stands found themselves extremely busy with questions and interest.

Such was the success of the event that our two main sponsors have already given their support for next years conference, 

Members can veiw an article and reveiw by Ross McCraken for Platts Energy Economist, in memebers section

http://www.ucgp.com/members/mem-downloads/D48185A3CB0A28/

February 10th -11th 2009.

If you are not a member but would like a copy of the Conference CD, please email  :info@ucgp.com

UCG makes Frontcover of Sunday Times Magazine.

Black to the Future - a feature article on UCG appears in the 16th October 07 edition of the prestigious Sunday Times

A significant part of the Partnerships role is to advance the UCG process by bringing it to the attention of all, this leading article certainly does that. Read the cover story in this weeks Sunday Times Magazine http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2631117.ece 

The Global Roundtable on Climate Change brings together more than 100 high-level, critical stakeholders from all regions of the world-including senior executives from the private sector and leaders of international governmental and non-governmental organizations-to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change. http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/grocc/

Representatives of many of the organisations and initiatives in the alliance were brought together in Berlin on 16 May 2007 by e5, The European Business Council for Sustainable Energy and hosted by E.ON Energy. Given the importance of the climate issue and the urgent agenda for the next year, the groups met to share information and explore potential synergies.

UCGP are proud to be a member of the alliance