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Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig
Ever since last month’s Budget, oil
companies have been complaining about George Osborne’s tax on North Sea oil
and gas. Yet many have just announced record profits - boosted considerably by current sky-high oil prices. What do they take us for?
Reacting to the publication of UK
carbon emission figures for 2010, Dr. Doug Parr, the chief scientist for
Greenpeace, said:
“Climate-changing pollution should be falling, not going
up – so what these figures show is that the UK is
moving in the wrong direction. Politicians can’t blame it on the beginnings of
the economic recovery because whilst the economy has grown slowly, carbon
emissions have grown faster.
The head of Greenpeace’s transport campaign, Vicky
Wyatt, said:
“The prime minister made clear that rising carbon
emissions were a key reason he opposed the growth of London’s airports so it’s
worrying that these new transport proposals seem to put a new emphasis onto
aviation growth happening by the back door at regional airports.
The government’s climate plan needs pollution from
planes to be kept within limits. Clearly the aviation industry has been ramping
up their lobbying efforts but Ministers should learn the lessons of the Labour
years and not cave in.”
Posted by jamie -
24 March 2011 at 4:32pm -
8 Comments
So yesterday's budget was from the
self-proclaimed 'greenest government ever', but was it the greenest
budget ever? How could it be, when it has done nothing to break our addiction
with oil, hobbled the Green Investment Bank before it's even started, and
provided a windfall for nuclear power.
A briefing prepared in advance of the 2011 UK government budget, explaining how the chancellor's decisions will affect the Green Investment Bank, clean energy schemes, transport solutions and the carbon levy.
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