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United Kingdom: Fracking is no answer to 'immediate dilemma' of energy security
2014-03-10 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking might be a controversial proposition, but there is no need to panic just yet. It may be that shale is indeed the solution to our energy crisis, but many are unaware of the complex and tangled web of legal issues to be picked through before anyone puts a drill in the ground. Fracking involves the extraction of methane gas from layers of shale by pumping high pressure water down a well. But shale gas stocks are legally owned by the Crown, and it is the Crown (via the Department for Energy...
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United Kingdom: 'Carbon bubble' threatens stock markets, say MPs
2014-03-10 10:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The world's financial markets could be creating a "carbon bubble" by over valuing the fossil fuel assets of large companies say MPs. Much of this coal and oil may have to be left in the ground to combat climate change, according to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) The Committee also hits out at the lack of green finance. Less than half the 200bn needed to deliver emissions cuts by 2020 is in place they say. A number of studies in recent years have warned that stock markets around...
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United Kingdom: Can our trees be saved from big timber, rampant disease and global warming?
2014-03-09 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: We have finally finished tidying up all the trees and branches thrown down by the furious winter winds in Court Wood. It's an 11-acre, mixed broad-leaf woodland near my home in the Black Mountains, south Wales. As part of a not-for-profit, community woodland group, I started managing the wood a few months ago. Before our small team of volunteers arrived with billhooks and chainsaws, Court Wood hadn't been touched for 60 years. Like thousands of similarly anonymous British woodlands, it had silently...
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United Kingdom: Farmers' fury after climate change expert claims
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Western Gazette: Farmers have reacted angrily after the Government's climate change experts questioned whether it was fair to spend 100 million of taxpayers' money to save the Somerset Levels. Climate expert Lord Krebs has sent a letter to Environment Minister Owen Paterson saying the Levels should not be made a special case and any plan should be good value for money. Earlier this week the Minister took receipt of an action plan outlining 100 million worth of measures that need to be taken to safeguard the...
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United Kingdom: The recent winter storms caused the greatest loss of trees in a generation, says The National Trust
2014-03-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The fallout from the extreme winter weather continued yesterday as the National Trust disclosed that the barrage of storms killed the greatest number of trees in a generation as Environment Secretary Owen Paterson announced a further 10.5 million injection into flood protection. Thousands of oak, ash and beech trees, many of them in ancient woodland, were uprooted, blown over, or snapped during the winter, with Killerton Estate in Devon hit the hardest with the loss of more than 500 trees. Wales...
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