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United Kingdom: Eric Pickles apologises over floods & blames Environment Agency advice
2014-02-09 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has said the Environment Agency made a mistake in not dredging the rivers in the Somerset Levels, and warned that flooding is likely to extend to the Thames valley by the middle of next week. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Pickles apologised on behalf of the government while continuing to pin blame on the EA. He said: "We made a mistake, there's no doubt about that and we perhaps relied too much on the Environment Agency's advice." Asked...
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United Kingdom: 'Floods' Minister Eric Pickles Apologises for Mistakes But Insists Government Not to Blame
2014-02-09 05:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has offered a long-awaited apology for the government response to the floods that continue to cover parts of the UK, but immediately claimed it was not ministers' fault. Instead, he laid the blame squarely at the door of the Environment Agency and its boss, Labour peer Lord Smith, who has found himself isolated and under attack from all sides. Following reports that the government had been warned of the potential problem almost a year ago, but persistently...
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United Kingdom: We're used to floods in Somerset but this time the people feel angry and abandoned
2014-02-09 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Somerset floods are, in a small way, the English equivalent of New Orleans's Hurricane Katrina: the residents of a wealthy, first-world country find themselves helpless in the face of Mother Nature, and a political class is astonishingly slow to recognise and react to the crisis. Unless you live in Somerset, it's hard to understand the scale of the disaster. I farm a few miles away, in the Mendip Hills, and when I leave my house it looks as if the sea has reclaimed the whole of the Somerset...
The floods: what a shower
2014-02-08 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rotting carpets, sodden furniture and drenched possessions are making life desperate for swaths of Britain, from the Somerset Levels in the west, to Saffron Walden in the east. The misery is real, and as ever it is inflaming an itch to blame. The Environment Agency chief, Chris Smith, seemed to do everything possible to draw the deluge of fury his way. He stopped off first, not at one of the most drenched, but one of the driest villages in the corner of Somerset he was visiting. He failed to...
Massive Coastal Floods Predicted as Storms Flood Britain
2014-02-07 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Met Office forecasters warn that strong winds and big waves will bring risk of flooding and damaging winds along Britain`s southern and southwestern coasts into the weekend, intensifying storm conditions that have persisted all week. Globally, coastal regions face "massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding during the 21st century," new research predicts. Over the next three days, more rain and very strong winds are in the forecast as Atlantic storm Ruth batters Britain this weekend...
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