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United Kingdom: EDF admits nuclear talks have gone 'critical'
2013-03-07 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The long-running negotiations between the government and EDF over its plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point have reached a "critical" stage, raising fresh questions over the viability of the coalition's plans for a "nuclear renaissance". The Telegraph reported this morning that an internal memo from EDF Energy chief executive Vincent de Rivaz this week admitted that while the company was continuing to try and reach an agreement with the government "the negotiations are very...
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Toyota, City of Grenoble, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, Cité lib, EDF launch ultra-compact urban EV car-sharing project; i-ROAD and COMS
2013-03-04 20:30:16| Green Car Congress
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EDF faces calls to drop legal action against activists
2013-02-24 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: More than 8,000 people in 24 hours have signed a petition calling on the energy company EDF to drop a 5m civil action against 21 activists who occupied one of its power plants last October. The campaigners, from the No Dash for Gas pressure group, occupied EDF's West Burton gas plant for a week. All pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated trespass in court on Wednesday and are awaiting sentencing in March and April but they are also facing a civil claim from EDF, which is seeking to recover...
United Kingdom: Activists claim police siding with power company EDF in law suit
2013-02-20 19:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The energy company EDF is seeking more than 5m in damages from a group of more than 20 activists who occupied one of its power stations for a week last year, in an action campaigners claim could stifle the right to protest across the country. Some of the campaigners named in the legal case also claim that officers from Nottinghamshire police overstepped their role by helping EDF issue protesters with details of the civil action against them, including in one instance allegedly chasing a bailed...
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United Kingdom: EDF confirms it wants 40-year contracts to build nuclear plants
2013-02-19 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Electricity firm EDF has confirmed it wants the UK government to sign 40-year contracts to support building new nuclear reactors in Britain as the national energy regulator warned prices are likely to rise higher than expected. The French-owned company is in talks with ministers over "contracts for difference" funding, under which the government guarantees generators will be paid a minimum price for electricity from new nuclear plants: if the market price falls lower than this "strike price"...
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