Lord Lawson: expert witness in the defence of Big Oil
On Tuesday, the Energy Bill we’re all so exercised about (oh yes you are) went for its
second reading in the Lords. Their lordships Teverson, Deben, Prescott, Oxburgh and
others spoke well. Stern and Worthington are actually worth reading.
German environment minister Peter Altmaier is keen to keep gas guzzlers on the road
It was 6.30am in Luxembourg and we were all keen to start. We got into our vans ready to launch our final action for cleaner cars in Europe. But this morning it was different. Instead of a handful of national activists calling on a car company to clean up its act, we went big.
There were thirty of us from across Europe who came together for the whole day to unveil a banner, placards and hand out flyers telling European governments to stand up to the bullying of Germany and its environment minister Peter Altmaier.
The Telegraph is yet again trying to pretend that Noel
Edmonds’ anti-wind lobby, the cosmically ordered Renewable Energy
Foundation, is a reliable source of data. In case you don’t remember, this is
the organisation which produces nonsensical made-up ‘reports’ attacking wind
power, whilst claiming on their home page to be in the business of promoting
renewable energy.
As leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Russia, the USA and the UK descend on Northern Ireland for their yearly G8
jamboree, even the most conservative of bodies are calling for urgent action on
climate change.
Politicians would make terrible magicians. That’s my conclusion after reading a new proposal that sets out how Europe should meet its fuel economy targets for all new cars.
The German government’s proposal is an attempt to con the rest of Europe into playing into the hands of car companies like BMW and Daimler.
The Arctic Sunrise arrives in London for World Oceans Day
In more than three decades at sea, I have had the pleasure to sail
across the world’s oceans; I have had the privilege to witness ocean
life in a way that few others can; I have experienced the magic and
mystery of some of the planet’s biggest, smallest, most beautiful and
strangest creatures. From blue whales to the tiniest seahorses and
almost everything in between!
The kindness of strangers during the Gezi Park protests have made Istanbul feel like home
I have been living in Istanbul, in Taksim, for the last year and a half. This weekend I felt at home here for the first time. Against the tense backdrop and amid the clouds of tear gas people are being exceptionally kind.
On Sunday 26 May, oil began flowing down the Kolva River through Komi indigenous land in northern Russia. For a week now, the oil has been coating the river and building up on the banks, with no reaction from Rusvietpetro, the joint venture company of VietPetro and Zarubezhneft, a state-controlled Russian oil company, and no cleanup being organised by the company or even the local authorities.
MPs are deciding whether a clean power target should be included in the Energy Bill. Will they back clean renewable power, or a costly, dirty dash for gas?
Our office in Istanbul has been under siege. It is in the heart Taksim, an area in which a brutal police clampdown has been trying to end the peaceful protest over the planned destruction of the small, and historic, Gezi Park by Taksim Square. The protest has grown to involve tens of thousands of people and drawn the support of people from all over the world.
