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United Kingdom: Millions told to ration water as heatwave sends demand up by 50 percent
2013-07-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Four of Britain's biggest water companies Severn Trent, Affinity, South East and Yorkshire told customers to cut back and use water "wisely" as temperatures hit a record 32 degrees centigrade. The Met Office issued a "level three heat health watch" for London and the south-east amid predictions that July could be the driest since records began 247 years ago. Affinity, a water company that supplies three-and-a-half million homes across north London and the home counties, issued an alert admitting...
United Kingdom: Heathrow submits third runway options to Davies Commission
2013-07-17 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Heathrow Airport has unveiled three options for a new runway, saying each one would be "quicker and cheaper" than plans for a rival hub airport. The airport's submission to the Davies Commission, which is looking at raising airport capacity, outlined a runway to the north, north-west or south-west of the existing airport. It said a new runway could be in place by 2029, allowing 260,000 more flights. Residents, environmentalists and the London mayor oppose Heathrow's plans. 'Minimising...
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United Kingdom: Green measures to blame for rising energy bills, says npower
2013-07-16 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Household energy bills will rise 240 a year by 2020, due largely to the mounting cost of government green policies, energy giant RWE npower has claimed. The "big six" power provider claimed energy company profits were not to blame for rising bills, and said consumers should know the true cost of government investment in greener forms of energy production and efficiency programmes, which it said will be the main driver behind a rise in bills from 1,247 today to 1,487 by the end of the decade....
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United Kingdom: Wind farm subsidies cut by 25 per cent
2013-07-14 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The decision will delight anti-wind farm campaigners and back-bench Conservative MPs who have sought a cut to curtail the construction of turbines. But the wind power industry said the measure would leave billions of pounds of investment and thousands of jobs "hanging in the balance' and pointed to David Cameron's promise that his government would be the greenest ever. Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, will announce the cut in subsidies for new wind farms as part of a radical...
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United Kingdom: World's biggest offshore wind farm with 300 turbines will be built in Lincolnshire
2013-07-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Work on the massive Triton Knoll site - 288 giant wind turbines off the Lincolnshire coast - can now begin after the 3.6bn project was given the go ahead. It will dwarf Britain's current largest offshore facility, the 175-turbine London Array in the Thames Estuary unveiled last week by David Cameron. Go-ahead: An offshore wind farm off the coast of Skegness in Lincolnshire When complete, the new giant windfarm will generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power for 820,000 homes....
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