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No easy ride for EDF's plans for new nuclear
Despite the growing shift of support away from nuclear energy in
Europe, EDF is stubbornly pushing forward plans to build a new nuclear
reactor
in the UK, without sufficient consideration for all the relevant risks.
Posted by Richardg - 25 January, 2012 - 12:34 -
- 4 comments
It's time to make all homes and businesses more energy efficient
The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new
report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of
the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Posted by petespeller - 25 January, 2012 - 11:21
Conversations with Greenlanders (and non-conversations with oil companies)
I’ve passed north of the polar circle on our trip visiting the west coast of Greenland. The temperature has dropped to -15C: snow is mounting outside my window and in the beautiful harbour city Sisimiut the fjord is filled with ice. At night time, the northern lights are dancing in the sky to the distant howling from the town’s sledge dogs. This wolf-like dog is only allowed north of the Arctic Circle. In a few days, I will be debating oil drilling at the local college – a college that focuses specifically on minerals and petroleum.
Posted by Jon Burgwald - 23 January, 2012 - 12:41 -
Major victory over Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but more battles to come
President Obama has just said no to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which was to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. Despite a fierce lobbying campaign by oil companies and by Canada's Harper government, Obama spiked the pipeline - in part thanks to an unprecedented and global grassroots uprising.
Posted by bex - 19 January, 2012 - 16:34 -
The day the web stood still
THANK YOU everyone who took action yesterday and
took a historic stand against Internet censorship. We're proud to have
stood shoulder to shoulder with some of the world's biggest websites
and all of you, in opposing Sopa and Pipa - the two pieces of
legislation in the US designed to prevent copyright piracy on the web,
but which would have granted corporations unprecedented powers to limit
free expression.
Posted by petespeller - 19 January, 2012 - 14:30 -
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