Was it when Chancellor George Osborne called us the environmental Taliban? When he announced he wanted to build 40 new gas-fired power stations and turn the UK into a “gas hub”? When he was revealed in our undercover investigation as trying to dismantle the Climate Change Act? When he rolled out the red carpet for fracking companies across England? Or when he vetoed a 2030 goal in the Energy Bill for carbon free electricity?
While the thought of official councils — with their high-level policy workshops and multilateral task forces — is enough to send most sensible people into fits of abysmal loathing, there is one such council that anyone passionate about the high north should care about: the Arctic Council.
Today, we published an advert in the Telegraph outlining a long list of disasters that have already befallen Shell and which demonstrate that Arctic drilling is a risk too far. The list is copied here and contains references for the facts referred to in the advert.
If you don't trust Shell with the Arctic either, join the campaign to Save The Arctic.
Boris Johnson has a message for "scientists and
environmentalists". Or at least, it’s addressed to scientists and
environmentalists, although if I were trying to reach that particular audience,
I might not have chosen the Telegraph.
In fact, I’d probably be more likely to try to put an article in the Telegraph
if I was trying to reach Tory backbench MPs. But that’s just me.
How’s your New Year’s resolutions list going? We’re waiting to hear how Volkswagen has begun 2013.
This morning more than 25 Greenpeace activists protested against the carmaker’s stance on the climate outside the Vienna car show. Handing out leaflets and making the point that VW can do better, we were hoping that the company makes some strong commitments.
The Met Office have changed their decadal forecast for the next four years from a predicted 0.54 degree rise to a 0.43 degree rise, measured relative to the 1971-2000 average. This doesn’t sound all that exciting, even to real climate geeks like us, but then Lord Lawson’s climate denial outfit, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, got hold of the story and turned it into ‘Global Warming at a standstill’ in the Telegraph and similarly dramatic variations on the BBC’s Today programme and elsewhere.
Shell's Arctic oil rig hits the rocks. Should we trust them with the Arctic?
Shell's most
recent 'mishap' a few days ago was not the first setback the oil giant has suffered in
its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. In fact, it's the eighth in a growing
list of reasons why Shell should not be trusted in the Arctic.
This document provides an analysis of Shell’s oil spill response plan for the
exploratory wells that the company is drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi
Seas, Alaska. Shell and Cairn Energy both appeared before the UK parliamentary
Environmental Audit Committee to face questions about their ability to contain
and clean up an oil spill as well as preventing one from occurring in the first
place.
