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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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United Kingdom: 650 jobs may go as coal mine closes
2013-03-07 02:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: One of the UK's last remaining coal mines is to shut with the loss of up to 650 jobs. The decision to close Daw Mill colliery in north Warwickshire follows a major fire last month, the largest in a UK coal mine in more than 30 years. A small team will remain on site to secure the mine over the coming months but the owner, UK Coal Mine Holdings, said the majority of Daw Mill's 650-strong workforce will be made redundant. The company said the fire is still burning ferociously at a depth of...
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United Kingdom: Sustainable houses are becoming the new ideal homes
2013-03-06 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: I meet Rebecca Golding window shopping amidst an array of solar panels and a display of drains at the Ecobuild 2013 exhibition in London. She looks bewildered, like a tourist lost in a foreign city, scared she might get ripped off, trying to interpret the green babble being spoken around her. She is looking for triple-glazed windows which she wanted for the ultra-low energy house she is building with partner Jim on a plot near Newport, south Wales. But he has been diverted by some thermal imagery...
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United Kingdom: Davey urges Lib Dems to honour decarbonisation target deal
2013-03-06 14:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Ed Davey has today warned that it would be wrong of his Lib Dem colleagues to reject an agreement brokered between the two coalition parties and vote for a cross-party amendment that would force the government to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector from next year. Responding to questions at an event hosted by The Building Centre in London, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary said he had sympathy for the amendment that has been tabled by Conservative MP Tim Yeo and Labour's...
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United Kingdom Food and Drink Report Q2 2013
2013-03-06 01:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
Business Monitor International's United Kingdom Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regul
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