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The fight over whether or not we should go fracking in the UK is getting reasonably dirty - we fact-check Peter Lilley's latest claims.
Last week, an influential former Conservative cabinet minister, John Penrose, published proposals for a new approach to regulation of the energy sector. Penrose’s acknowledgement of problems in the sector is to be welcomed but we need to think bigger to ensure consumers aren’t ripped off and that the power of the big energy companies is reigned in.
As debate around the latest incarnation of the controversial Severn Barrage scheme rumbles on, an alternative vision for renewable energy in the Bristol Channel promises comparable amounts of power, less environmental damage and better long-term economic prospects. So is it time for a rethink?
This week the Office of National Statistics will tell us if Britain has slipped into a ‘triple dip’ recession, and if the news is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently anti-environment Chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate change.
The European Parliament’s decision to vote down a proposal to temporarily remove permits from the EU Emissions Trading System has sparked an outcry of doom-mongery that carbon trading is dead.
Around the world, governments are responding to the threat of man-made climate change and exposure to the costs of imported oil and gas by tightening regulations on vehicle emissions.
On a cold winter’s morning, the 11th of January 2010, when the Prime Minister of India announced the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with a target of a deploying 20,000 MW of Solar power by 2022, many of us, hard core solar enthusiasts, read the news with much scepticism
If we’re going to get to the root of the challenges of sustainably securing our energy supplies whilst decarbonising the energy sector, then we need to think again about just what our existing reliance on fossil fuels means for us all.
It is accepted wisdom that solar panels should be ‘the last thing you do’, once all your lights are LED, your loft lagged and your windows double, even triple, glazed. This viewpoint is even enshrined in legislation with less energy efficient domestic and business properties receiving a lower feed-in-tariff rate.
With the government locked in negotiations with the EU over its Electricity Market Reforms (EMR) nuclear is understandably where most of the tension between the UK’s reforms and the EU’s market structure has initially been focused - though this isn't the only problem - see our analysis of the tension between the UK's reforms and the EU.
