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United Kingdom: Floods: Environment Agency frontline staff hit by cuts, whistleblowers reveal
2014-02-10 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Whistleblowers within the under-fire Environment Agency have told the Guardian that frontline flood staff are being cut, despite pledges by its chairman that reducing the agency's emergency response was a "red line". Weeks of savage weather have battered England and frontline EA staff have been working round the clock to ensure timely warnings, rapid responses and straining defences continue to defend over a million highly vulnerable properties. But deep government cuts to the EA budgets means...
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United Kingdom: How a sensible revision of flood policy was sabotaged
2014-02-10 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Where is God when He is needed? In the old days, floods were called "acts of God". He has now been supplanted by Lord Smith, the environment agency, the Treasury, Owen Paterson, the National Farmers Union (NFU) and global warming. The current floods have shown British government at its worst, reaching a nadir yesterday in an "apology" slung in the face of the Environment Agency (EA) by the bombastic local government secretary, Eric Pickles. This followed the prime minister overruling the Treasury...
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United Kingdom: Lord Smith: 'EA staff know 100 times more than any politician about flooding'
2014-02-10 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith has blamed Treasury spending rules for the failure of the agency to spend more on dredging last year, as he said his staff knew 100 times more than any politician about flood defence protection. He also said the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, has been hugely supportive, contrasting that with the sniping and criticism that has come from the communities secretary, Eric Pickles. He denied all knowledge of a document suggesting in 2008 it had been EA...
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United Kingdom: Floods threaten thousands of homes along the Thames
2014-02-10 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands of homes along the Thames have been told to prepare for significant flooding, as the number of severe flood warnings in the south of England rises to 16. Fourteen of the warnings relate to a lengthy stretch of the Thames through Berkshire and Surrey, and two remain in place in the Somerset Levels. The Environment Agency (EA) said the Thames warnings stretched "from Datchet to Shepperton Green, including Ham Court and Chertsey, as river levels in the area are extremely high and are...
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United Kingdom: Treasury urged to insulate homes with carbon tax revenues
2014-02-10 03:38:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: A coalition of businesses and NGOs has accused the Treasury of hypocrisy over its refusal to use proceeds from carbon taxes to insulate the UK's housing stock. A new report, authored by an ex-Treasury economist for campaign group Energy Bill Revolution, made up of nearly 200 UK charities, businesses, unions, consumer and health groups, highlights how the Treasury's decision to retain proceeds from emissions trading and the carbon floor price is something of an anomaly. Revenues from other policies...
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