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United Kingdom: Sellafield consortium under fire for failing to disclose 'damning' audit
2014-02-09 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guaridan: A parliamentary committee report, published this week, is expected to criticise the consortium running Sellafield, Europe's largest nuclear site. The public accounts committee's Progress at Sellafield report blasts the consortium's management for not disclosing the existence of an audit that tracked their failure to meet performance targets, and highlights lax financial controls that let employees bill the taxpayer for hundreds of thousands of pounds in expenses, including 714 on a chauffeur-driven...
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United Kingdom: Evidence 'links warming to storms'
2014-02-09 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Climate change is likely to be a factor in the extreme weather that has hit much of the UK in recent months, the Met Office's chief scientist has said. Dame Julia Slingo said the variable UK climate meant there was "no definitive answer" to what caused the storms. "But all the evidence suggests there is a link to climate change," she added. "There is no evidence to counter the basic premise that a warmer world will lead to more intense daily and hourly rain events." More than 130 severe...
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United Kingdom: Flood concern raised over fracking
2014-02-08 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Concerns have been raised over the risks of giving "fracking" the go-ahead in flood-prone areas of the UK, as parts of the country face continued flooding. Greenpeace said licences had been given to companies to potentially drill for shale gas and oil in some of the areas of Somerset that have been hit by flooding. Government planning guidance shows it will consider applications to drill in areas which are at risk of floods, potentially leaving flood-hit communities facing leaks and pollution from...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron blames last Labour govt for flooding in Somerset
2014-02-07 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron made a carefully controlled lightning visit to the flooded Somerset Levels on Friday and blamed the last Labour government for a pause in local river dredging in the late 1990s that he said had made the area more liable to flood. The prime minister's afternoon tour contrasted with a chaotic and rowdy visit by the beleaguered Environment Agency chairman Chris Smith, a former Labour minister, who earlier in the day rejected repeated calls for him to resign. Six weeks after the flooding...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron promises to help flood victims on visit to Somerset
2014-02-07 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The prime minister, under growing pressure for not visiting the flood-hit Somerset levels, finally made a trip to the area on Friday where he vowed to do everything he could to help. On his visit in the company of the local Bridgwater Conservative MP, Ian Liddell-Grainger, David Cameron said: "Clearly people here faced a very tough time and continue to face a tough time, and that is why we have got to do everything we can to help. "So more pumps we brought in more pumps; more help from the...
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