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United Kingdom: Brent council seeks to ban fracking
2013-11-01 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A local council is seeking to ban fracking in its area in what it claims is the first such move by a local authority in the UK against the controversial gas extraction procedure. Brent, in north London, said it was seeking to use any legal avenues available to prevent energy firms from being able to drill within its boundaries. The Government firmly backs action to exploit what are believed to be large reserves of shale gas in rocks beneath the UK, which it claims could help bring down energy...
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United Kingdom: Decarbonisation target narrowly defeated in House of Lords vote
2013-10-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government avoided a House of Lords rebellion last night as peers voted by 216 to 202 to defeat an amendment to the Energy Bill that would have required it to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector next year. Green businesses and campaigners had hoped that the amendment, put forward by cross-bench peers Lord Stern and Lord Oxburgh and Labour shadow climate minister Baroness Worthington, could pass with a relatively small rebellion from the government benches. But despite...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron may speak to Vladimir Putin directly over Arctic 30 arrests
2013-10-28 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron is prepared to consider contacting Vladimir Putin directly to raise the "very serious issue" of the six Britons who have been detained in Russia following a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic last month. The prime minister told parliament he would personally speak to the Russian president if it would help the plight of the detainees, who learnt last week that the authorities had decided to downgrade their charges from piracy to hooliganism. One of the British...
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United Kingdom: Housebuilders urge David Cameron not to scrap energy efficiency measure
2013-10-28 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of more than 40 companies and other organisations have called on the prime minister to keep the only regulation that forces energy firms to fund energy efficiency improvements for low-income households. Spending by utilities under the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) amounts to about 1.3bn. David Cameron has floated the idea of scrapping the ECO, which his government introduced, to help cut fuel bills. The saving would amount to less than 50 per household per year, on average energy...
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United Kingdom: Ed Davey promises to 'fight like tiger' against Tory attempts to cut green levy
2013-10-28 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, has promised to "fight like a tiger" against Conservative attempts to cut green levies on gas and electricity bills. The senior coalition minister said he would not let the Tories touch subsidies for renewable energy or the fuel poor, describing it as a "red line", and pledged to beat the target of getting 30 per cent of Britain's electricity from green sources by 2020. He spoke out after David Cameron said he wanted to roll back green charges...
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