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United Kingdom: RWE slashes capacity at North Sea wind farm
2014-01-07 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: German utility RWE will reduce capacity at its planned Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the North Sea by up to half, it said on Monday, weeks after it scrapped another wind project in British waters. Triton Knoll's capacity is now expected to range between 600 and 900 megawatts (MW), instead of 1,200MW, RWE's renewable energy subsidiary Innogy said in a statement. Offshore wind farm developers have now largely finalised British site assessments and industry experts say that project capacity...
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United Kingdom: Speed limit on 34-mile stretch of M1 to be limited to 60mph to cut air pollution
2014-01-07 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Motorway drivers are set to be limited to a speed of just 60mph for a 34-mile stretch of the M1 in a bid to meet European standards on air pollution. The Highways Agency is proposing introducing the new lower maximum as part of an upgrade to the UK's major north-south motorway in Yorkshire and the Midlands. The new curb on speed comes less than two years after coalition proposals to increase the motorway speed limit to 80mph, which were quietly dropped in the face of safety concerns. The 60mph...
United Kingdom: Ray Mears calls for green belt protection
2014-01-05 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Ray Mears, the survival expert, has called for the countryside to be protected against government plans to build new homes on Green Belt land. The television presenter, 49, said allowing construction to go ahead on the Green Belt would run counter to the original idea of setting aside parts of the countryside so that future generations can enjoy them. He accepted there is "pressure' to use such areas to lessen the burden of the housing crisis, but insisted measures put in place to control urban...
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United Kingdom: Relief as flood defences hold, but the storms aren't over yet
2014-01-05 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the rain eased over the Dorset coast yesterday, and the last police officers with their loudhailers left the Portland peninsula, the landlady of the Little Ship was happy to have a dry pub to open up. "The police came last night and said there was going to be a 10ft swell and we should move upstairs as soon as we heard the sirens," said Linda Davis, who runs the pub in the village of Chiswell, where there had been plans to evacuate residents last night ahead of an expected tidal surge. "They...
United Kingdom: Weather blows a warning for our future
2014-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: Storms lash Britain again, bringing flooding, power cuts, and general misery to thousands. Across the Atlantic, the eastern United States and Canada are weighed down by huge snowfalls and temperatures more akin to the Arctic. In the southern hemisphere, Australia has just experienced the hottest year on record, sparking ferocious forest fires. Some may see this coincidence of extreme events as just that, an unlucky happenstance. They, however, are increasingly in the minority. The evidence now argues...
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