british energy
Posted by Richard Casson — 6 May 2015 at 11:25am
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Our banned anti-fracking ad
If there was a Guiness Book of Records for the most absurd rulings ever issued, the UK advertising watchdog's decision to ban a Greenpeace anti-fracking ad would surely be given pride of place in the 2015 edition.
Posted by Lawrence Carter — 14 March 2014 at 3:54pm
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We recently confronted Cuadrilla Chief Executive, Francis Egan, over his plans to frack for shale gas underneath people’s homes in Lancashire. Cuadrilla has announced two new drilling sites in Lancashire, so we decided to pay them a visit and seek their assurance that they would respect the wishes of the Lancashire residents who have come together as part of Greenpeace’s legal block to tell them not to trespass on their land.
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Posted by jamie — 1 August 2008 at 3:13pm
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It's usually poor form to laugh at another's
misfortunes, but in this case I feel a slight chortle is more than justified. EDF's
bid to takeover British Energy - the semi-state owned company charged with
looking after the UK's
nuclear power stations - has been kicked out, throwing a spanner of cosmic
proportions into our government's plans for a new atomic age. Oops,
butterfingers.
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Commenting on news that
the expected takeover of British Energy by French energy company EDF has fallen
through, Nathan Argent, head of
Greenpeace's nuclear campaign, said:
"This is a hammer blow
for Brown's deluded nuclear ambitions. If this deal had gone ahead, it would
have been a disaster for renewable energy in the UK. A
push for more nuclear power would scupper the UK
renewable energy industry, and, by doing so, cancel out the prospect of creating
hundreds of thousands of British green-collar jobs.
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Posted by jossc — 29 May 2008 at 11:32am
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Sellafield: major ongoing problems have been hidden from the public
Yesterday, Gordon Brown
felt compelled to go on the record to announce that the UK needs to not
only maintain but to increase
its nuclear power capacity. And yet the nuclear industry is not exactly
hale and hearty because, let's face it, it's been a terrible week for the poor dears.
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The parties involved in the expected takeover of British Energy have "little interest in tackling climate change or protecting British taxpayers", said environmentalists today.
Nathan Argent, nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace, said:
"The expected French Government bid to takeover of British Energy will come with huge financial costs, a tiny reduction in carbon emissions and continued confusion over who pays for the clean up of radioactive waste.
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Reponding to news of a takeover at British Energy, Ben Ayliffe, head of Greenpeace's nuclear campaign, said: "This is a staggeringly expensive way of doing very little to tackle climate change, given that a replacement nuclear programme can only reduce our carbon emissions by four per cent sometime after 2020. It's inconceivable that these enormous costs aren't going to be passed on to customers in the form of higher energy bills.
