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PARLIAMENT, PINTS AND PERAMBULATION

By David Goodall, London,
Southern & Eastern Section
committee member

CHRISTMAS DINNER AT THE RED LION
IT WAS ANOTHER sell-out event for
London, Southern and Eastern Section’s
Christmas walk.
Ahead of this year’s walk, some of the
group met up for pre-drinks at the Red
Lion in the capital’s Parliament Street,
famously the haunt of every British UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE AT
Prime Minister up to Ted Heath. WESTMINSTER HALL
We then walked to meet the rest of the
group outside the Houses of Parliament, trials of King Charles I, Sir Thomas the Lords and Commons chambers.
where both sides of the Brexit divide More and Guy Fawkes. Then it was back to the Red Lion for
were noisily making their point. We travelled on through the central the fun part of the evening, where once
Once inside, our guides met us lobby, once described as “the political again we had a fabulous Christmas
in the 1,000-year-old Westminster centre of the British Empire”, then dinner and a few drinks with friends and
Hall, which once hosted coronation followed in the footsteps of the Queen colleagues. Now that’s what I call a great
banquets, ceremonial events and the at the state opening as we entered both way to start the Christmas festivities!

IRELAND GETS BEHIND HYDROGEN

By James McStravóg, Irish Section Chair

IN NOVEMBER, the Irish Section interests of the audience and hopefully
held a paper evening in Belfast, this will lead to further discussion.
in collaboration with the Pipeline These events demonstrated that the
Industries Guild (PIG) to provide an natural gas industry has a fantastic
update on developments within the and very exciting future ahead of it as
natural gas industry to utilise hydrogen. we all seek to meet the government’s
Philip Brain, from KIWA, and ambitious commitment to climate
Corin Taylor, from DNV GL, gave action by driving decarbonisation.
an excellent overview of the work
completed to date and the many
ongoing projects and experiments that
they are currently involved in.
In December, we followed this up
with a second paper evening in Cork,
also in collaboration with PIG. Philip
was this time joined by John Beirne,
from Ervia, to deliver the presentations.
Each of the presentations across the
two events succeeded in piquing the PRESENTATIONS IN BELFAST

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