Blogposts tagged 'Coal'

I will never forget Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town on Svalbard that I visited last year. Walking over green grass unheard of in the Arctic and passing by building complexes that could be the homes of hundreds of people. The feeling that those who lived there had just gone out on a day-trip and would be coming back soon.

The ongoing problems with the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has prompted many people to question where we get our energy from, now and in the future. The champions of nuclear power say the risks only affect a small number of people and are outweighed by the risks of climate change. So if we can’t burn coal, we must have nuclear power.

Since we started our campaign in February 2010, over 600,000 Greenpeace supporters like you have called on Facebook to unfriend coal and embrace renewables to power their massive data centres. Thank you.

This blog first appeared on Left Foot Forward, and this decision could have far-reaching implications for where we get our energy from. If that gets your goat, 38 Degrees have made it very easy to write to your MP about emissions performance standards.

Yesterday The Guardian splashed with the news that the coalition's promise to introduce an emissions performance standard (EPS) to stop the most polluting power stations has been ‘put on hold' and wouldn't be in the coalition's first energy law, which is expected to come before Parliament later this year.