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United Kingdom: Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned
2014-10-13 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governor of the Bank of England has reiterated his warning that fossil fuel companies cannot burn all of their reserves if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change, and called for investors to consider the long-term impacts of their decisions. According to reports, Carney told a World Bank seminar on integrated reporting on Friday that the vast majority of reserves are unburnable if global temperature rises are to be limited to below 2C. Carney is the latest high profile figure...
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United Kingdom: Iberdrola advances 1m floating wind turbine project
2014-10-10 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: ScottishPower owner Iberdrola has teamed up with a Scottish university to design a state-of-the-art floating wind turbine that could allow developers to produce electricity from marine areas where the water is too deep to install wind turbines. Work on the EUR1m TLPWIND project has already begun with University of Strathclyde and the public-private Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, with the aim of creating the turbine and an installation system capable of slashing installation time and...
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United Kingdom: New cracks in Hunterston reactor
2014-10-06 08:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: New cracks found in the core of the Hunterston-B nuclear reactor could threaten operator EDF's plans to extend the Scottish power station's life. Experts say fissures in two of the 3,000 graphite fuel bricks that make up its No 4 core are of a new type. These "Keyway root cracks" are said to be more serious than previously identified fractures. Safety rules stipulate that if the new problem gets above a certain threshold, the reactor would have to close. Hunterston-B came online in 1976,...
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United Kingdom: Government frees up fracking rules, despite 99 per cent opposition
2014-09-26 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government is pressing ahead with plans to allow shale gas companies to drill under people's homes without their consent, despite 99 per cent of respondents opposing the consultation proposals. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) yesterday confirmed it would change the trespass laws for shale and geothermal developers, arguing the controversial underground drilling access regulations were necessary to accelerate the shift to a low carbon economy. According to the response...
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Cider Market Insights United Kingdom
2014-09-25 10:40:20| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
The Cider Market Insight United Kingdom report contains detailed brand, distribution and packaging data and analysis across the United Kingdom cider market for 2013. Brand and packaging volume data is
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