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United Kingdom: Sir Robert Smith replaces Yeo as interim chair of climate committee
2013-06-11 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sir Robert Smith has been appointed as temporary chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, after Tim Yeo stepped down pending an investigation into allegations he breached parliamentary rules by advising a subsidiary of one of the companies that employs him. The Lib Dem deputy chair of the committee was unanimously selected to act as interim chair of the committee as Yeo fights to clear his name. Rumours circulating on Twitter had suggested climate sceptic committee member Peter...
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United Kingdom: Case for Severn barrage 'unproven'
2013-06-10 08:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The latest plan to build a barrage across the Severn to generate electricity has been severely criticised by a committee of MPs. Hafren Power had outlined a 25bn tidal scheme to generate up to 5% of the UK's electricity needs. But the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee said it could not recommend the plan. It said that on both economic and environmental grounds the case remained unproven. In 2010, the then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne pulled the plug on public efforts...
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United Kingdom: Investment in green energy falls to four-year low
2013-06-09 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Investment in green energy in the UK has plummeted to its lowest level in four years, according to new figures from Bloomberg, with campaigners claiming that much of the blame can be pinned on the Government's failure to set a target date for cleaning up the power sector. As the Government prepares to put its Energy Bill before MPs this week, an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows that clean energy investment fell from 7.5bn in 2009 to 5.3bn last year. But the total of loans...
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United Kingdom: Climate activists receive sentences for gas-fired power station occupation
2013-06-06 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Twenty-one climate change activists were sentenced on Thursday for aggravated trespass after occupying a gas-fired power station last year. Sixteen of the activists were given community service orders of 150-200 hours, while the other five received 18-month conditional discharges. The activists occupied EDF's newly built West Burton power plant in Nottinghamshire in October, with several protesters remaining strapped to a cooling tower at the site for more than a week, the longest such occupation...
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United Kingdom: Locals can now veto windfarms: so what about fracking?
2013-06-06 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Power to the people! That, say ministers, is what changes to windfarm rules announced on Thurday deliver. What they fail to say is it only applies to the minority of people who live in Conservative constituencies where the Tories feel compelled to out-loony the climate change deniers of UKIP. The majority of the British public who support renewable energy are left powerless. But giving local communities a veto on wind farms raises an intriguing question: will the same apply to those who oppose...
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