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our readers

INWED @INWED1919 EDITOR’S LETTER
@IGEMGi we are so pleased to have
you as official #INWED18 sponsors!!!
Thank you for #RaisingTheBar! I AM WRITING TO YOU on what is now Day 568 of
the British heatwave. Chaos reigns. Commuting is
S4TP @S4TP_BigIdeas an endless torment, sleep an elusive fantasy. Ginger
What an impressive judging people spontaneously combust in the streets. Riots
panel we have from our partners
@IGEMGi @SGNgas @TarmacLtd break out over the last of the Cornettos. We have
@mearsgroup and Brammer abandoned all hope.
Buck&Hickman plus our super youth I normally can’t wait for the summer, but this
judge from @heathpark_ who was year I can’t wait for it to end. The country has been
in the 2nd placed team last year! compared recently to a banana republic: it’s boiling
#BigIdeasCompetition2018 hot, our government appears to have imploded, and
all of a sudden we are good at football.
Steven Edwards @Stevenjwwu I’m genuinely looking forward to the winter – leaving work in the dark,
Looking rejecting any ideas of cultivating a ‘bikini body’ (whatever that is) and cranking
forward to up the thermostat.
great @IGEMGi
event today Nevertheless, the gas industry waits for no cold snap. This edition we are
#roadto2050 looking at regulation and we’ve got a veritable smorgasbord of content for
with you. We’ve got all your water cooler conversation covered: RIIO, the capacity
@WWUtilities market, the regulation of drones and the EU Gas Directive.
@SGNgas Not only that, but this is a bumper edition for IGEM activities. We’re saying
@CadentGasLtd goodbye to our first ever female President Sheila Lauchlan, and hello to her
@NGNgas successor, Steve Edwards. We’re also welcoming the latest addition to the
IGEM team, our new CEO Neil Atkinson. In addition, we’ve got all the action
Avril Samuel @katiehainesMT from the Grand Final of our Young Persons Paper Competition, in which Sam
@IGEMGi Please watch our new Jones of Wales & West Utilities was crowned the winner.
carbon monoxide awareness video
Sound The Alarm – CO Can Get In fact, we have so much to tell you we’ve had to include a whole extra
You Anywhere! https://youtu.be/ magazine. Read about all of our exceptional shortlisted nominees and winners
sARCs2YcIV8 from this year’s Gas Industry Awards in our special supplement celebrating the
best and brightest from around the gas industry.
Reece Emmitt @ReeceEmmitt Finally, don’t forget to let us know how you feel about Gi by completing our
“We keep 24 Reader’s Survey. Just pop it in the post and we’ll enter you into a draw to win a
million homes brand new Amazon Fire tablet.
safe and warm We hope you enjoy the August edition!
and we keep
the country
running”
@Stevenjwwu
in great form at
IGEM’s Summer
Ball 2018
Sharon Baker-Hallam, Editor
Flamefast Gas Safety @GasSafety_FF BA (Hons) AIGEM
We are pleased to announce that Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM)
we are now an @IGEMGi Industrial
Affiliate #IGEM #GasSafety

Oliver Lancaster @gasworksollie
On my way from @WWUtilities to
an @energynetworks meeting at
@NGNgas via a short break and
stroll around this very familiar
#CadentGasLtd #gasholder station.
Sorry @SGNgas that I didn’t cover
your patch – would’ve been quite a
detour! @IGEMGi @energyutilities
@Gashistory
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us, email editor@igem.org.uk or write to Editor Sharon Baker-Hallam at IGEM
House, 26 & 28 High Street, Kegworth, Derby DE74 2DA. The best letters and
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