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United Kingdom: Fracking protest village forms renewable energy company
2014-03-28 03:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Live: Residents of the village that was the centre of anti-fracking protests have formed their own renewable energy company. Called REPOWERBalcombe, the new co-operative plans to install around 300,000 worth of solar panels on the rooftops of local buildings in Balcombe hoping to meet around 7.5% of the electricity demand of the village. It also hopes to provide all of the villages electricity need with locally-generated renewable energy in the long term. The co-operative launched its first...
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United Kingdom: Heatwaves to become normal by 2040s, says the Met Office
2014-03-26 13:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Research by the Met Office has suggested that climate change will bring wet and mild winters and dry hot summers to the UK, with dangerous heatwaves set to become more frequent across Europe over the next few decades. According to the Met Office, the UK will have on average wetter, milder winters, like the 2013-2014 one, as well as drier and hotter summers. However, because of annual weather variability, it could also have few exceptionally cold winters and wet summers. Professor Stephen Belcher,...
United Kingdom: Poll: three-quarters voters want more environmental policies
2014-03-26 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Almost three-quarters of UK voters feel that the major political parties need to focus more on the environment, renewable energy and efforts to cut carbon emissions, according to a new poll. The survey, commissioned by WWF-UK, also found that 47% of voters are willing to switch their political allegiance based on which party was offering the best environmental policies. Eighty-eight per cent of respondents said the government should be doing more to protect the UK against flooding and other...
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United Kingdom: Poll: Half voters could switch parties based green policies
2014-03-26 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Almost half of voters are prepared to switch their political allegiance based on the strength of a party's environmental policies, a new survey has revealed. The VisionCritical poll, commissioned by WWF-UK, found 47 per cent of the 2,000 respondents were willing to shift their vote over green considerations, while the survey also highlighted a growing interest in environmental policies in the wake of the storms and severe flooding experienced at the beginning of the year. The poll found seven...
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United Kingdom: Fracking won't crack our dependence on Russian gas imports
2014-03-25 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As tensions with Russia intensify, government ministers and conservative commentators have increasingly sought to capitalise on the crisis to sell fracking to the electorate. Over the weekend, Conservative energy minister Michael Fallon argued that the UK should reduce its reliance on gas imports by fracking for shale gas in the UK. The foreign minister, William Hague, wrote in the Telegraph that we need to "develop indigenous European energy supplies such as shale gas", while commentators including...
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