Blogposts tagged 'Consultations'

A Risky Business: Government spin plan over Heathrow revealed

Posted by christian - 27 March 2009 at 9:49am - 0 Comments

Risk register

Given that Heathrow's third runway is by many (fairly reasonable) standards a hugely unpopular and environmentally damaging project which would flatten a community, significantly contribute to rising UK carbon emissions, and be campaigned against by those bloody NGOs, it's fair to say that it must have been a bit of a headache for the person project managing the task of getting it approved.

If you're a project management type, a risk register (and I had no idea about this before last week), is a document where you have to list everything that could go wrong with the project, how likely it is to happen and how much of a problem it would be. You also have to say what you're going to do about it.

Article tagged as: aviation, BAA, climate change, consultations, DFT, heathrow expansion

Greenpeace response to the Strategic Siting Assessment consultation

Publication date:  14 November, 2008
Greenpeace's response to the Consultation on the Strategic Siting Assessment Process and Siting Criteria for New Nuclear Power Stations in the UK and related documents, including a study of the environmental and sustainability effects of the proposed siting criteria ('the environmental study'), and a Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Report.
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Article tagged as: consultations, new nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear power plants

How to fix the UK's renewables strategy

Posted by bex - 3 October 2008 at 9:18am - 1 Comment

Samsoe

Given that we have the best renewable resources in the European Union, the fact that Britain languishes near the bottom of the European renewables league table is pretty humiliating.

On Monday though, the International Energy Agency added insult to injury. Britain's renewables strategy, it said, is 'ineffective' and 'very expensive'. The agency's new report (published here, but you have to pay) ranks Britain 31st out of 35 countries - "including all the major industrial nations such as the US, Germany and China" - in its green energy cost league. And our 'renewables effectiveness', it says, is a paltry three per cent.

Article tagged as: climate change, consultations, IEA, policy, renewable energy

Connecting the future: the UK's renewable energy strategy

Publication date:  29 September, 2008

The need for a bold response from a nation that considers itself a world leader in tackling climate change has never been clearer, yet on too many fronts, the UK government seems intent upon repeating the mistakes of the past. From runways to new coal fired power stations, the government’s plans for resurrecting the icons that are the principle cause of climate change continue, despite the breadth of opposition marshalled against them.

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Article tagged as: climate change, consultations, energy, renewable energy, reports

Are BAA's plans in terminal decline?

Posted by bex - 14 March 2008 at 4:30pm - 26 Comments

Goddard cartoon

Image reproduced with kind permission of Private Eye Magazine and Clive Goddard.

Luckily for BAA, the Queen doesn't seem to have taken offence at apparently being banned from Heathrow in the run up to climate camp last year. This morning, she tootled off to Hounslow to officially open Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (although the public opening won't happen 'til the 27th).

Article tagged as: airport expansion, aviation, climate change, consultations, heathrow

Another legal threat for the government over nuclear plans

Posted by jamie - 10 December 2007 at 2:59pm - 8 Comments

When you make a mistake, you tend to learn from the experience so you can avoid making similar blunders in the future. Not so the current government which, if it backs a new generation of nuclear power stations, could once again find itself at odds with the law.

Back in February, we took the government to the High Court over its first attempt to hold a public consultation on the future of nuclear power. The court found in our favour, ruling that the consultation was "unlawful" and "seriously flawed". It forced ministers back to the drawing board for a second consultation but once again it's been shaped and guided by a predetermined outcome: the UK will have new nuclear power stations. Members of the public who attended the consultation meetings posted messages on this site about how they felt attendees were lead into finding in favour of nuclear power.

Article tagged as: climate change, consultations, nuclear power, nuclear waste

Greenpeace response to the consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

Publication date:  17 May, 2007

Greenpeace's input into the consultation on the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, which the government intends to use to force fuel companies to increase the amount of biofuels they supply.

But without proper safeguards and protection for forested areas, the production of these biofuels could cause an increase in carbon dioxide emissions instead of reducing them.

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Article tagged as: biofuels, climate change, consultations, forests, rfto

Should the EC ban illegal timber? You decide!

Posted by jamie - 12 February 2007 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

If you were caught selling pirate DVDs, it would be no surprise if you were fined or even sent to jail. After all, you would be breaking the law.

But when companies in Europe buy or sell illegal timber from the last of the world's ancient forests, nothing happens. They won't even have the timber confiscated. Astounding, there are no laws to stop illegal timber or timber products from ending up in your local shops or even in your home.

Article tagged as: consultations, EU, forests, illegal timber
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