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United Kingdom: Indoor fracking installation seeks to provoke debate
2013-06-17 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is one of the biggest, most polarising issues there is, but artists who have created an indoor fracking installation insist they are not trying to sway opinion either way. "We want to create an emotionally engaging experience. People can then go away and come to their own conclusions," said Heiko Hansen, who with his partner, Helen Evans, has recreated the sounds, tremors and flames you would get from a fracking operation. The process of fracking or hydraulic fracturing involves drilling...
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United Kingdom: Shale could fuel UK for 10 years, say experts
2013-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The US government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report that it now estimated Britain's "technically recoverable shale resources' at 26 trillion cubic feet (tcf), compared with annual UK gas consumption of about 3 tcf. The EIA also said for the first time that it believed Britain had shale oil, estimating that some 700m barrels could be extracted. The figures indicate the volumes that the UK should be able to extract from the ground using current technology, but do not...
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United Kingdom: Survey reveals three quarters of public support smart meters
2013-06-11 13:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A significant majority of households would welcome the installation of smart meters, according to a new survey that should go some way towards dispelling fears that plans for a national roll out of the technology could be undermined by privacy concerns. Media reports have suggested concerns over how the energy data obtained by smart meters will be used and shared could spark public opposition to the government's planned smart meter roll out, which is due to see smart meters offered to every household...
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United Kingdom: Sir Robert Smith replaces Yeo as interim chair of climate committee
2013-06-11 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sir Robert Smith has been appointed as temporary chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, after Tim Yeo stepped down pending an investigation into allegations he breached parliamentary rules by advising a subsidiary of one of the companies that employs him. The Lib Dem deputy chair of the committee was unanimously selected to act as interim chair of the committee as Yeo fights to clear his name. Rumours circulating on Twitter had suggested climate sceptic committee member Peter...
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United Kingdom: Case for Severn barrage 'unproven'
2013-06-10 08:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The latest plan to build a barrage across the Severn to generate electricity has been severely criticised by a committee of MPs. Hafren Power had outlined a 25bn tidal scheme to generate up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. But the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said it could not recommend the plan. It said that on both economic and environmental grounds the case remained unproven. In 2010, the then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne pulled the plug on public efforts...
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