In response to the government announcing contracts for funding eight new
renewable energy projects, Greenpeace UK energy campaigner Jimmy Aldridge said:
"We welcome the commitment to improving UK energy security by getting
off imports and backing clean, home-grown energy. But all this needs to happen
much faster and on a bigger scale if we are to guarantee a safe supply of clean
power to Britain's homes.
There were 57 applications for renewable projects with a fixed-price
guarantee, yet DECC only granted 8 – all of which are for more expensive
projects. Just yesterday David Cameron announced he wants to limit onshore wind
farms, despite these being the cheapest source of clean,
home-grown energy we have.
The UK’s leading environmental organisations have written to Chancellor George Osborne following reports that he views parliamentary climate change campaigners as the ‘environmental Taliban’.
The letter from John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace, Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth; Mike Clarke, Chief Executive of RSPB and David Nussbaum, Chief Executive of WWF-UK says:
Only two per cent of people
believe that the coalition is the ‘greenest government ever’, according to an
exclusive YouGov opinion poll commissioned by Greenpeace.
David Cameron made the
‘greenest government ever’ pledge in May 2010. In 2006 Cameron famously posed
with huskies in Norway and said that ‘since becoming leader of the Conservative
Party I have sought to push the environment up to the top of the political
agenda.’
The findings from the poll are
expected to come as a personal blow to the prime minister, just days before the
Budget.
Greenpeace
UK has today served legal
papers on the government for unlawfully failing to take into account the
implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in
their future planning for the building of new nuclear power stations at sites in
Britain.
Hugh and Jamie during filming of Fish Fight outside Westminster
"Greenest government ever." That’s the
phrase that’s already been used to slap the current UK
administration a fair few times. It’s an ambitious claim, but it seems even on
the black-and-white issues UK ministers can’t quite bring
themselves to go green.
Posted by jamess — 12 November 2010 at 2:07pm
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We've taken the government to the High Court in a bid to stop offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Our lawyers filed a claim at the Royal Courts of Justice this morning seeking to stop the issuing of new licences for deep sea drilling until the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion have been properly established.
