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MPs vow to fight for clean electricity as the Energy Bill is published

Posted by Richardg - 29 November 2012 at 4:32pm - Comments
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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.

Just how important is 'environmental protection' to VW?

Posted by louise - 28 November 2012 at 1:33pm - Comments
50 Greenpeace volunteers protest against the high fuel consumption of the new Vo
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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.

A summer of setbacks for Shell

Posted by Charlie Kronick - 27 November 2012 at 4:06pm - Comments
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Shells plans ran aground

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.

Balls well that ends well

Posted by kcumming - 26 November 2012 at 2:28pm - Comments
John Sauven and Ed Balls at Eclipse Energy
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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.

Government kicks clean electricity into the long grass

Posted by Richardg - 23 November 2012 at 5:39pm - Comments
Giant energy bill outside Centrica offices
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Giant energy bill outside Centrica offices

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.

Out in the cold: Shell's summer of setbacks

Publication date: 
23 November, 2012

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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Polar bear cam - live from the tundra

Posted by Nic S - 21 November 2012 at 1:41pm - Comments

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.

Rare white humpback whale filmed in the Arctic

Posted by Nic S - 20 November 2012 at 7:38pm - Comments

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.

It’s arithmetic: $4.5 billion is small change for BP

Posted by Mark Floegel - 16 November 2012 at 12:25pm - Comments
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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.

#Energygate: What we found and why it matters

Posted by petespeller - 14 November 2012 at 3:44pm - Comments

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.

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