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United Kingdom: Warning over turbine applications near Dark Sky Park
2013-09-30 02:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Astronomers and land charities have warned that Britain's only Dark Sky Park is being threatened by applications for wind turbines. Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park secured its status in 2009. But the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the John Muir Trust and the Scottish Wild Land Group have written to the Scottish government, asking it to rule out wind farms in the vicinity. There have been nine proposals for turbines near the park's observatory. These include plans from energy companies such...
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United Kingdom: Failing to lead on climate change will damage economy and environment, Greens tell Osborne
2013-09-29 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Express: GEORGE Osborne's refusal to lead from the front in the fight against climate change is damaging the economy as well as the environment, according to the Green Party. The Chancellor has spoken out in favour of keeping carbon in the power sector and suggested Britain should not price itself out of international energy markets by placing too heavy an environmental burden on suppliers. His comments come as the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
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United Kingdom: Scrapping HS2 rail link would be a 'disaster', warns transport secretary
2013-09-28 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Abandoning plans to build the 42.6bn HS2 high-speed rail line would be a national disaster, the cabinet minister in charge of the project has said, as he admits for the first time that it will be more difficult to press ahead without the Labour party's support. In an interview with the Observer, the transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, insists that he, David Cameron and the chancellor, George Osborne, all remain fully committed to building the new line from London to Birmingham, Manchester...
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United Kingdom: Caroline Lucas set for fracking protest court hearing
2013-09-26 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has defended her right to protest against shale oil and gas exploration, after she was charged over her part in protests at Balcombe, West Sussex. The MP for Brighton Pavilion was among a group of demonstrators arrested during a day of anti-fracking protests in Balcombe, Sussex, last month. The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed yesterday that Lucas would be charged with breaching a police order on public assemblies and wilful obstruction of the highway. She...
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United Kingdom: Peter Mandelson criticises Ed Miliband's energy plan
2013-09-25 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lord Mandelson took aim at Ed Miliband's call for a 20-month freeze on gas and electricity prices on Wednesday, claiming that the Labour leader's demand for a resetting of the energy market could create the impression that the party's industrial policy was going backwards. The former business secretary suggested that Miliband's speech, widely praised across the Labour party, could be seen as taking the party back to a previous era in which the options for industrial policy amounted to either state...
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