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Diamond Green Diesel beginning production of renewable diesel
2013-06-27 13:30:21| Green Car Congress
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No Green Deal work yet completed
2013-06-27 13:05:09| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The flagship Green Deal scheme to make homes more energy-efficient has still not resulted in any actual home improvements, the government admits.
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Green deal take up 'worryingly slow', figures show
2013-06-27 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five months after its launch, not a single household in the UK has completed the process of making their home more energy efficient under the government's flagship green deal, according to figures released on Thursday. Nearly 40,000 assessments in which experts visit properties to see what measures would best be undertaken have been carried out, but only four households are registered in the system as finalising green deal plans, whereby works are installed and paid for by the scheme's financing....
Conservationists fear Victoria's cuts to logging green tape
2013-06-27 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Victorian government has amended the state's logging laws in a move conservationists fear will transfer control to the timber industry and could doom endangered species such as the Leadbeater's Possum. The Sustainable Forests (Timber) Amendment Bill, which passed the lower house on Thursday, reduces the regulations binding VicForests, the state-backed forestry business. The bill removes the second part of the two-stage process that VicForests has to go through in order to secure and log...
Green deal mired in legal and IT problems
2013-06-27 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five months after the launch of the government's flagship energy efficiency programme, energy suppliers are still struggling with the IT systems and legal arrangements they need to offer households insulation and other improvements under the "green deal". Of the so-called "Big Six", only British Gas has fully launched a national green deal programme. Under the green deal, homeowners can take out loans to pay for energy efficiency measures, such as solid wall insulation, paying them off through...
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