Energy

Reducing CO2 emissions from energy generation is key to tackling climate change. Over the coming years, the UK's ageging coal, gas and nuclear power stations will need replacing and we have to decide what comes next. Do we want a clean energy future and a thriving green economy or do we rebuild the expensive, polluting energy dinosaurs?

We're campaigning for a clean energy future. A stronger green economy with new jobs and growth. Clean, efficient renewable energy and to end CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

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Cuadrilla's drilling rig in Balcombe, Sussex

4 reasons why we could all be fracked by fracking

As David Cameron warns the nation: like fracking or lump it, we examine why shale gas extraction is a bonkers idea for Britain.A quick reminder of what...
Posted by leila - 12 August, 2013 - 00:00
Anti-fracking protester at Balcombe drilling site

The birds have gone silent: how a fracking company is changing my village

I’m just back from the local anti-fracking camp outside Balcombe in Sussex, where Cuadrilla workers are noisily drilling their oil well despite not having the...
Posted by Kathryn McWhirter - 8 August, 2013 - 13:08
Wind turbine, part of the London Array

Power up: world's largest wind farm switched on

It would be an understatement to say that today is a big one for renewable energy in this country. Because today the London Array – the world’s largest...
Posted by Liam Kirkaldy - 4 July, 2013 - 13:40
One of John Constable's colleagues

The anti-wind Blobby

The Telegraph is yet again trying to pretend that Noel Edmonds’ anti-wind lobby, the cosmically ordered Renewable Energy Foundation, is a reliable source of...
Posted by Graham Thompson - 17 June, 2013 - 16:49

Russian communities clean up oil spill as company does nothing

On Sunday 26 May, oil began flowing down the Kolva River through Komi indigenous land in northern Russia. For a week now, the oil has been coating the river...
Posted by Laura Kenyon - 5 June, 2013 - 11:53

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