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United Kingdom: Spending watchdog to examine scrapping 1bn carbon capture plan
2016-01-31 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The National Audit Office is to investigate George Osbornes decision to scrap a 1bn prototype carbon capture scheme which cost the taxpayer at least 60m, a letter seen by the Guardian shows. The spending watchdog said it would be looking into the expenses incurred in running, and then prematurely halting, a CCS auction. It will also examine how the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) plans to secure the countrys future energy needs. In the coming weeks we will begin work looking...
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United Kingdom: Twenty years after protests, what is legacy of Newbury bypass?
2016-01-24 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Blink and you miss it. Just past the Tot Hill McDonalds, 20ft above the northbound carriageway of the Newbury bypass in Berkshire, an old oak stands over hundreds of young saplings. Named Middle Oak by people who lived up it for months in the bitter winter of 1996, it is the only physical reminder of the 35 protest camps built high in the trees on the route of the most controversial new road in recent British history. Middle Oak was the only one of 10,000 mature trees in the path of the road...
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United Kingdom: Solar still a good option despite subsidy cut and VAT hike, says industry
2016-01-14 12:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Solar panels still make financial sense for consumers despite a double whammy of subsidy cuts and a rise in VAT rates, the industry has said. Midnight on Thursday marks the final chance for homeowners to secure the current incentive of 12.47p per kWh for electricity from solar panels. The feed-in tariff scheme then closes to new applicants for three weeks and anyone installing panels will get 4.39p per kWh, a 65% cut that was branded huge and misguided when it was announced just before Christmas....
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United Kingdom: PM challenged over climate policies
2016-01-12 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The PM has been accused of double standards over climate change, ahead of a Commons committee appearance. Select committee chairmen Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour) and Angus MacNeil (SNP) said he has scrapped UK schemes aimed at cutting emissions, despite pledging internationally to protect the climate. They singled out the decision to axe a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project promised in the Tory manifesto. The government said the CCS scheme had always been "subject to affordability"....
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United Kingdom: Claims rises in flood defence spending 'essentially meaningless'
2016-01-09 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Government claims that it increased spending on flood defences ahead of the wettest December on record are essentially meaningless, an independent adviser on climate change has said. Daniel Johns, head of adaptation at the Committee on Climate Change, urged the government to commit to spending more on maintaining defences after weeks of heavy rain caused flooding across the UK. The warning comes as water levels in north-east Scotland reached their highest levels in 45 years, causing further...
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