The EA said that the flux towers would take "continuous measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere" and track how much carbon becomes locked in the new saltmarsh.
"We've reduced leakage by 15%, which increases our stocks, and we are spending £408m on mains renewals across the next five years."We are doing everything we can to keep as much water as we can.
"We have put the bills up this year and we accept it is going to hit people hard but we have got facilities in place to help people who are finding it difficult."A prison governor who had a relationship with a drug-dealing gang boss has been jailed for nine years.Kerri Pegg, 42, was seen as a "rising star" of the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate to governor at HMP Kirkham in Lancashire in six years.
But her trial heard she "didn't play by the rules" and began a relationship with major Liverpool crime figure Anthony Saunderson, helping him secure day release.Sentencing her at Preston Crown Court, Judge Graham Knowles KC told her: "You betrayed the public trust in you and you betrayed the Prison Service."
He continued: "It was shocking and unconscionable that you should have had that relationship.
"You knew how you should and should not act. You had training and support. You were warned and you were challenged."This is a model that has been in place and worked in Oregon since the late 1990s, and more recently in all of the states in Australia and New Zealand. It commands overwhelming public support in those jurisdictions, as well as the confidence of the medical profession.
"We need to get the detail of any bill here in Scotland right, but there is no reason we can't follow a similar path."He urged MSPs to vote in favour of the bill and help create "the most compassionate, safe and suitable law for Scotland".
In October last year, First Minister John Swinney said he had "not come to a final view" on the issue but added that the proposed age threshold of 16 was "a very significant issue in my mind" which MSPs will have to "wrestle" with.MPs in England and Wales