The government has finally published the long-awaited Energy Bill. There's much to like, but it's still missing that vital commitment to clean electricity.
VW is still pushing for weaker emissions laws in Europe
"Environmental protection is the top priority for
Volkswagen". So says the blurb for VW’s latest PR initiative. But
according to a story in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper it seems no one told their lobbyists…
The story reveals that the VDA, the lobby group that
represents VW along with fellow German carmakers BMW and Daimler, wants to
make a big hole in a proposed EU law to control CO2 emissions from even
bigger cars.
This
summer, after six years of planning to drill in the Alaskan Arctic, Shell
finally moved into the region in a failed first attempt at drilling for oil. To date, Shell has spent $4.5 billion on Alaskan Arctic
offshore drilling. This includes the cost
of licenses and permits to drill off the coast of Alaska.
left to right: Eclipse Managing Director Chris Cash, Ed Balls and John Sauven
Friday was a brave day for Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to hug a solar panel. Britain had awoken to the - albeit sensationalist and misleading - headline news that households could be paying £170 a year by 2020 to fund renewable energy projects. (The reality being nearly half that cost and overall savings if we get our act together on energy efficiency). But Ed Balls, MP for Morley and Outwood, pulled up to renewable installation company Eclipse Energy in Leeds enthusiastic, engaged and ready to – literally - embrace clean energy.
If a year is a long time in politics, then 2016 is a lifetime away. Yet the government has decided not to commit the UK to clean electricity until after the next election.
Shell investor briefing: This briefing gives an overview of the various setbacks faced by Shell. It also examines the nature of the testing carried out on essential well capping equipment. It suggests some key questions for investors to ask Shell in the light of this year’s Arctic experience.
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21 November 2012 at 1:41pm -
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Right now, along the northern coasts of Arctic countries, polar bears are waiting for the sea to freeze before they go out to hunt again. And now, you can see them.
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20 November 2012 at 7:38pm -
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The whale, dubbed "Willow", was caught on camera while breaching the surface with a pod of humpbacks. The extremely rare white humpback was spotted on a boat trip off the coast of Svalbard, Norway, in the pristine waters of the Arctic Circle. Willow resembles the mythical white whale, Moby Dick.
Let me apologise in advance for all the numbers that follow, but they're important.
Eleven men died on Deepwater Horizon the night BP's Macondo well blew out in April 2010. It's one number we shouldn't forget and no number can be placed on the loss their families and communities suffered and continue to suffer.
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14 November 2012 at 3:44pm -
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Today we’ve exposed explosive evidence of the lengths to which some Conservative Party MPs will go to sabotage progress on climate change. We’ve uncovered a plot to dismantle the Climate Change Act and one Tory MP involved in trying to manipulate a by-election to push his own anti-wind agenda.
