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United Kingdom: Defra admits it has no idea about size of solar farm impact on food production
2014-10-28 10:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Defra has this week admitted it has not undertaken an estimate of how much arable land has been taken out of production as a result of the expansion of solar farms, despite complaints from Environment Secretary Liz Truss earlier this month that solar developments were a "blight on the landscape" that were causing a "big problem" by eating into agricultural land. Announcing controversial plans to block Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to farmers who used their land to generate solar power, Truss...
United Kingdom: Government allowing coal industry to get green subsidies
2014-10-23 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The boss of British Gass parent company has criticised the Government for allowing old, dirty coal stations to qualify for subsidies worth hundreds of millions of pounds in a scheme designed to promote green energy. Sam Laidlaw, the chief executive of Centrica, said the list of power stations which the Government has just cleared to apply for the scheme contains some of the countrys most polluting stations putting it at odds with its goal of keeping carbon emissions to a minimum. Mr Laidlaws...
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United Kingdom: Dredging can make flooding worse, say activists
2014-10-21 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Dredging is pointless and largely ineffective, according to a coalition of environmental groups who are calling on the Government to scale down its preferred method of flood prevention. The Blueprint for Water coalition, which represents groups such as the RSPB, the Angling Trust and Friends of the Earth, is urging the Government to spend money earmarked for dredging on more effective alternative flood-control methods such as improved drainage systems. The warning comes as remnants of Hurricane...
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United Kingdom: Solar farms 'blight on landscape'
2014-10-19 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Environment Secretary Liz Truss has said large-scale solar farms are "a blight on the landscape" and confirmed plans to cut a taxpayer subsidy to farmers and landowners for the schemes. She told the Mail on Sunday the land could be better used for growing food. There is currently a 100-an-acre grant scheme in place, worth 2m a year. Ms Truss said: "I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land." She described the rows of solar...
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United Kingdom: Mark Carney: most fossil fuel reserves can't be burned
2014-10-13 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governor of the Bank of England has reiterated his warning that fossil fuel companies cannot burn all of their reserves if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change, and called for investors to consider the long-term impacts of their decisions. According to reports, Carney told a World Bank seminar on integrated reporting on Friday that the vast majority of reserves are unburnable if global temperature rises are to be limited to below 2C. Carney is the latest high profile figure...
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