If you only read three stories
1) British videographer charged with Piracy
A former Times videographer working for Greenpeace has been charged with Piracy by Russian prosecutors along with other activists aboard the ship the Arctic Sunrise.
2) Fracking trip changed destination
The Times reports that a 'fact-finding' trip by energy minister Greg Barker to look at fracking in Colorado was switched at the last moment after floods at the sites he was due to visit caused More than 40,000 gallons of oil and an unknown amount of waste drilling water to leak.
3) Energy firms hungry for Iranian oil, gas
The Telegraph reports that Peter Voser, chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, and Christophe de Margerie, his counterpart at France’s Total, used the Oil & Money conference in London on Tuesday to highlight the potential energy windfall if sanctions preventing international oil companies from dealing with Tehran were lifted.
UK
BBC criticised over IPCC coverage
The BBC has been attacked over it's coverage of the IPCC report on climate change for giving excessive weight to criticism of the report's findings by figures with no background in climate
science.
E.On blames government for raising pensioners bills
The energy firm said reforms aimed at simplifying it's tariff structure mean it will have to scrap its discounted 'staywarm' tariff aimed at pensioners - costing them up to £180 a year.
Coal gasification projects to be delayed
Plans to burn Britain's large reserves of coal to produce gas for power plants may wait for years because of concerns about climate change and a public perception that the technology is similar to fracking.
£22bn Sellafield contract to be extended
The private consortium in charge of cleaning up the waste at Sellafield is closing in on a deal to extend its contract - despite criticism of its performance.
Energy firm calls for consensus on bills
In a move likely to be greeted with mild amusement by political commentators the boss of Scottish and Southern energy has written to the three party leaders claiming energy policy was “too important to become paralysed by politics”.
International
Coal use to overtake gas in S.E Asia
Coal will replace natural gas as the dominant fuel for producing electricity in Southeast Asia as the region almost doubles its energy consumption in the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, Bloomberg reports.
