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Regional water company, Águas do Algarve invested in a photovoltaic energy production system at its water treatment plant in Tavira as the company continues to pursue its green, cost savings agenda.
The Secretary of State for the Environment finished his tour of the Algarve last week by ‘launching’ this Algarve utility even though the Tavira scheme has been producing electricity since last July.
The US government is to drop its court case against Apple as a result of the FBI finding a way to unlock an encrypted iPhone.
The phone had been used by one of the California terrorists who, together with his wife, shot and killed 14 people last year.
One drinks manufacturer has risen to the challenge of the UK government’s announced tax on sugar.
Scottish producer AG Barr, which brings Irn-Bru to the market, has said that by the time the tax comes into effect in April 2018 that at least two-thirds of its products will be sugar free or low sugar.
The Algarve’s Social Democrat party wants to revive the political debate on turning the region into a self-governing zone.
The discussion took place at the party’s district assembly held in Loulé last week and the proposal is set to be taken up at the 36th PSD national congress in early April.
Algarve Left Bloc MP João Vasconcelos has demanded answers from the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure as to why disabled railway users in the Algarve are left high and dry.
Vasconcelos asked the ministry about the lack of resources and equipment for people with reduced mobility who try and use stations on the Algarve’s decrepit railway line.
The ‘Spring Boogie 2016’ festival starts this coming weekend at the Alvor aerodrome in Portimão.
Around 250 skydivers are expected to turn up on Saturday, April 2nd to the event organised by Skydive Algarve and participants are booked in from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Ireand Norway, the UK, Spain and Portugal.
On May 12 the port of Olhão is to host an exercise to demonstrate how the Algarve will react to oil pollution hitting the Algarve's pristine shoreline.
‘Olhão 2016’ is being jointly organised by the Southern Region of the National Maritime Department, The National Protection Autority, Olhão council and Docapesca.
