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United Kingdom: Rally outside Huddersfield bank over fossil fuel extraction funding fears
2013-10-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Examiner: Climate change campaigners held a protest outside a Huddersfield bank over the amount of money it lends to firms which extract fossil fuels
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United Kingdom: Nuclear power station at Hinkley gets go-ahead as coalition signs off EDF deal
2013-10-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain is to embark on building the first nuclear power station for two decades on Monday as the coalition hands a multibillion subsidy to France's EDF with help from a state-owned Chinese firm. The two planned pressurised water reactors at Hinkley Point C, Somerset, are the first to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster and the first in the UK since the Sizewell B power station came online in 1995. The new reactors, which will cost 14bn, are due to start operating...
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United Kingdom: Nuclear power plant set for go-ahead
2013-10-20 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The government is set to give the go-ahead for the UK's first new nuclear plant in a generation on Monday. French-owned EDF Energy will lead a consortium that includes Chinese investors to build the Hinkley Point C power station in Somerset. Ministers and EDF have been in talks for more than a year. But it is understood that the two sides have agreed the all-important "strike price" - the guaranteed rate to be paid for electricity produced at the site. Chancellor George Osborne removed...
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United Kingdom: Tesco to give surplus fresh food to FareShare to help charities
2013-10-16 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tesco is to provide surplus food equivalent to 7m meals a year to more than 1,000 charities across the UK as it scales up its existing partnership with the food redistribution charity FareShare. The announcement on World Food Day comes as figures from FareShare show the organisation is facing record levels of demand for its services and providing food to more organisations and food banks helping the poor and the hungry than ever before. It now provides food to more than 1,000 charities across...
United Kingdom: Fresh questions raised over fracking jobs 'boom'
2013-10-16 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Projections suggesting the UK's nascent fracking industry could grow rapidly to support up to 74,000 jobs have come under fire this morning, as reports reveal that official estimates put the job creation potential of the sector at no more than 24,300 full-time posts. This summer a report from the Institute of Directors predicted that the UK shale gas industry could support up to 74,000 direct and indirect jobs, at the same time as helping to hold down energy costs and bolstering UK energy security....
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