Energy

Last edited 6 November 2014 at 3:40pm

Reducing CO2 emissions from energy generation is key to tackling climate change. Over the coming years, the UK's ageing coal, gas and nuclear power stations will need replacing and we have to decide what comes next. Do we want a clean energy future and a thriving green economy or do we rebuild the expensive, polluting energy dinosaurs?

We're campaigning for a clean energy future. A stronger green economy with new jobs and growth. Clean, efficient renewable energy and to end CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

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Balcombe or bullshit?

“I know that everything I say sounds like utter fucking bullshit,” a top Cuadrilla PR executive told me yesterday when I asked him about the risks fracking...
Posted by Lawrence Carter - 24 May, 2013 - 13:54
Exhibit A : James Delingpole

Hanging's too good for us

The winner of the bloggy awards’ best political blog and the winner of the bloggy awards’ best scientific blog are having a fight after school. This is the...
Posted by Graham Thompson - 12 April, 2013 - 16:10 -

Blair's legacy to be demolished

The third worst eyesore in Britain, according to readers of Country Life, and one of our top three polluters, closed forever today. Didcot A coal-fired power...
Posted by Graham Thompson - 22 March, 2013 - 14:19 -
Offshore Wind Farm Baltic One

Offshore wind cheaper than gas by end of decade

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the...
Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 March, 2013 - 15:35 -
Offshore Wind Farm Baltic One

Offshore wind cheaper than gas by end of decade

Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the...
Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 March, 2013 - 15:35 -

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