Green Building Forum - London olympics drops carbon offset plan Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:19:04 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115924#Comment_115924 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115924#Comment_115924 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:07:17 +0100 CWatters
Apparently because there are no UK based certified green offsetting schemes...

Officially, if you want to go down certified carbon- offsetting all projects have to be overseas, so if we plant a lot of trees in Essex that just doesn’t count.


and does anyone know what this paragraph is talking about?...

In June 2010, the Olympic Delivery Authority, the public organization responsible for developing and constructing new Games’ venues and infrastructure, was forced to abandon plans for a 2-megawatt wind turbine in the Olympic Park because it contravened health and safety regulations embedded in an EU Machinery Directive. Ecotricity, a U.K. green energy company, had won the contract to supply the turbine.
]]> London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115938#Comment_115938 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115938#Comment_115938 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:43:21 +0100 seascape London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115949#Comment_115949 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115949#Comment_115949 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:29:53 +0100 DamonHD
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Damon]]> London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115985#Comment_115985 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115985#Comment_115985 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:44:34 +0100 gustyturbine Gusty.:confused:]]> London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115987#Comment_115987 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115987#Comment_115987 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:25:00 +0100 Mike (Up North) from the 2012 site
A number of factors have changed the industry environment in which the Olympic Park wind turbine project was being delivered and led to a thorough examination of the turbine proposals on the Eton Manor site. For example, new wider safety legislation which applied to design elements of this particular wind turbine (specifically the internal operator lift) came into effect - the preferred bidder’s turbine supplier for the project felt unable to comply with these new regulations before the Games and withdrew from the project.

I think the insides were accesible by a humanbean the tower had to comply with work place leglislation etc

Cheers mike up North]]> London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115989#Comment_115989 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=115989#Comment_115989 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:53:33 +0100 ted London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=116003#Comment_116003 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=116003#Comment_116003 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:14:37 +0100 CWatters Posted By: Mike (Up North)Hi,
from the 2012 site
A number of factors have changed the industry environment in which the Olympic Park wind turbine project was being delivered and led to a thorough examination of the turbine proposals on the Eton Manor site. For example, new wider safety legislation which applied to design elements of this particular wind turbine (specifically the internal operator lift) came into effect - the preferred bidder’s turbine supplier for the project felt unable to comply with these new regulations before the Games and withdrew from the project.

I think the insides were accesible by a humanbean the tower had to comply with work place leglislation etc

Cheers mike up North

That sounds like a lame excuse. The regs don't just change overnight. What company allows their products to become so out of date they fail to comply with latest regulations and can't be sold?]]> London olympics drops carbon offset plan https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=116011#Comment_116011 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=7770&Focus=116011#Comment_116011 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:29:48 +0100 Mike (Up North)
Exactly, not sure if their comment had a touch of sarcasm in it my mentioning that

cheers

Mike up North]]>