climate change

Cleaner, cheaper, more secure - a new report reveals the real answer to Britain's energy needs

Posted by bex — 7 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A residential area powered by combined heat and power (decentralised energy)

As the government's Energy Review veers ever closer to the conclusion that nuclear power is the only answer to climate change, a new report by non-profit research agency the World Alliance for Decentralised Energy (WADE) demolishes this myth.

Decentralising UK Energy

Last edited 7 March 2006 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
7 March, 2007

Cleaner, Cheaper, More Secure Energy for the 21st Century

Summary
The new Greenpeace commissioned report, Decentralising UK Energy, demolishes the myth that nuclear power is the best or only option in tackling climate change and shows that a real, more effective, more viable choice is available. Not only is decentralised energy cleaner and cheaper than nuclear power - it's also more secure; we don't need nuclear power.

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Carbon dating the decision makers

Posted by bex — 2 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

David Cameron talks to Stop Climate Chaos supporters

Hundreds of Stop Climate Chaos supporters came together on March 1st to 'carbon date' some of the UK's leading MPs.

They weren't trying to guess the ages of these venerable decision makers; they were borrowing the 'speed dating' format to tell MPs what they thought the government should do about climate change.

Greenpeace response to government rejection of Whinash windfarm plans

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2 March, 2006

In response to today's announcement by the government that they have rejected plans to build what would have been England's largest windfarm at Whinash in Cumbria, Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace, said:

"Any Government that wants to expand airports and turn down windfarms is simply not fit to govern. It's hard to believe that the nuclear industry has not played some role in this.

Greenpeace Anti-Nuclear Action Hits Sizewell

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27 February, 2006

An enormous 'KAPOW!' was projected onto Sizewell nuclear site earlier this morning by Greenpeace volunteers - to highlight the risk of a terrorist attack on Britain's nuclear power stations.

The Budget: a chance to combat climate change

Posted by bex — 22 February 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

A traffic jam at night

While the global suffering caused by climate change escalates every day, UK vehicles are pumping out more greenhouse gases than ever before.

CO2 emissions from road transport are rising. Car manufacturers, unlike most other sectors, aren't legally bound to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, when put under pressure to do something about their immense contribution to climate change, they agreed to voluntarily reduce emissions of the average new car by 2008.

Greenpeace protests as Russia tries to muzzle its own experts on environmental impact of world's biggest oil pipeline

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1 February, 2006

Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency today, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's biggest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal.

Over 80% of the experts, commissioned to assess the environmental impact of building the 4,200 km pipeline, rejected the proposal because of its proximity to one of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Lake Baikal - which has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.

Greenpeace protests as Russia tries to muzzle its own experts on environmental impact of plan to build world's biggest oil pipe

Last edited 1 February 2006 at 9:00am
1 February, 2006

Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency today, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's biggest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal.

Over 80 per cent of the experts, commissioned to assess the environmental impact of building the 4,200 km pipeline, rejected the proposal because of its proximity to one of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Lake Baikal, which has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.

2005 hottest year on record, says NASA

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25 January, 2006

NASA researchers have calculated that 2005 was the hottest year on record.

Last year produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The previous hottest year was 1998.

Nuclear power and energy security

Posted by bex — 5 January 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

The Budget: a chance to combat climate change

The UK will shortly become a net importer of gas, as the North Sea fields which have given us over 20 years of self-sufficiency finally begin to run dry; production is decreasing so that we are now a net importer, rather than a net exporter. The recent attempt by the Russian Government, Europe's major gas supplier, to hike the price of the gas it supplies to neighbouring Ukraine (the first step on the pipeline route to Western Europe) has led to intense media speculation over the security of supplies to the UK - in effect the argument is that since we cannot rely on a stable supply of gas, we should press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power plants which would guarantee energy security.

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