Blogposts tagged 'Gas'

Energy price reductions won't cut it

Posted by petespeller - 17 January 2012 at 3:35pm - 2 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace

Over the last two weeks all of the Big Six energy companies - E.On, RWE, nPower, British Gas, EDF, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy - have announced reduction in their prices for gas or electricity. However, our analysis of the reductions in wholesale prices compared to the retail prices show that the Big Six are not passing on the fulls savings to their customers.

Article tagged as: big six, electricity, energy, fuel poverty, gas

Panorama provides a narrow view of rising fuel bills

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 November 2011 at 1:50pm - 9 Comments

Last night Panorama attempted to answer the question what is fuelling rising energy bills, instead viewers were treated to a steady stream of arguments against renewable energy that went more or less unchallenged.

Article tagged as: energy, fuel bills, gas, renewable energy, wind energy

BP wins coveted 'Emerald Paintbrush' award for worst greenwash of 2008

Posted by jossc - 22 December 2008 at 9:23am - 0 Comments

BP - energy mix or PR fix?

The tension built as the judges deliberated. Then at last the results were were all in and - ta-da! It was time to announce the winner of the first annual Greenpeace 'Emerald Paintbrush' award for greenwashing above and beyond the call of duty. Cue a quick roll on the drums, and step forward into the spotlight - BP!

The energy corporation with an income larger than most of the world's nation states has spent a lot of time and money restyling itself as being 'Beyond Petroleum' in recent years, but a trawl through their accounts quickly reveals just how empty that assertion really is - 'Back to Petroleum', more like it.

Article tagged as: BP, co2 emissions, fossil fuels, gas, greenwash, oil, solar power, wind power

Policy meltdown

Posted by John Sauven - 19 October 2007 at 8:52am - 0 Comments

This claim to Antarctic land epitomises the government's lack of a coherent approach to tackling climate change.

In April, the British foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, took climate change to the UN security council for the first time. Of major concern of the government, she said, were the expected "major changes to the world's physical landmass during this century," that would result from unabated climate change. It is a bitter irony, therefore, that it should now be that same British Foreign Office that is trying to profit from the melting ice of Antarctica and exploit precisely the changes to the world's landmasses that Beckett warned us about.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, energy, fossil fuels, gas, oil

Nuclear power and energy security

Posted by bex - 5 January 2006 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

The Budget: a chance to combat climate change

The UK will shortly become a net importer of gas, as the North Sea fields which have given us over 20 years of self-sufficiency finally begin to run dry; production is decreasing so that we are now a net importer, rather than a net exporter. The recent attempt by the Russian Government, Europe's major gas supplier, to hike the price of the gas it supplies to neighbouring Ukraine (the first step on the pipeline route to Western Europe) has led to intense media speculation over the security of supplies to the UK - in effect the argument is that since we cannot rely on a stable supply of gas, we should press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power plants which would guarantee energy security.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, energy security, gas, nuclear power
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