climate change
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The Government has conceded that oil and gas exploration in the Britain's North East Atlantic - the Atlantic Frontier - may harm whales and dolphins. The admission came in the High Court today where Greenpeace is taking the Government to court for failing to apply wildlife protection law up to 200 nautical miles from the coast.
Last edited 11 October 1999 at 8:00am
Blue whale gets less protection than the medicinal leech
Last edited 7 October 1999 at 8:00am
No New Oil
Frontier News is a weekly e-mail bulletin archived here for your convenience. It provides news and views on the key energy and wildlife issues at stake in a landmark legal case being fought over oil and gas licensing in the seas around Britain this October.
Last edited 7 October 1999 at 8:00am
St. Kilda - under threat from oil exploration
Frontier News is a weekly e-mail bulletin archived here for your convenience. It provides news and views on the key energy and wildlife issues at stake in a landmark legal case being fought over oil and gas licensing in the seas around Britain this October.
Posted by bex — 18 September 1999 at 8:00am
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St. Kilda's precipitous cliffs, crystal clear water and massive seabird colonies have continued to attract generations of divers, sailors and nature-lovers to its shores. It ranks alongside the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site.
The islands once again find themselves on the edge of a change at least as big as that of the loss of its people. The industrial world is finally encroaching on the wild seas around St Kilda - oil companies are being offered thousands of square miles of the sea-bed of Britain's Atlantic Frontier including areas only 25 miles from St Kilda. In July 1999 the UK Government gave the green light for an oil rig to start drilling west of the Outer Hebrides, just 75 miles from St Kilda.
The IUCN, nature conservation advisors to the UN, have concluded that St Kilda is at high risk from oil developments.
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September 1999 - Solar energy could become competitive in the short-term with conventional electricity, according to a report by business consultants and accountancy firm KPMG, commissioned by Greenpeace.
Posted by bex — 10 September 1999 at 8:00am
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Renewable energy has the potential to create thousands of jobs and generate power without imperilling the climate.
The UK government must set a series of progressive renewable energy targets, leading to a fossil fuel phase out in the next 30 to 40 years and open up the huge UK offshore wind resource. At the very least this means announcing a licensing round for offshore wind. To assure industry that investment in UK offshore wind is worthwhile, the Government must ensure these rounds are substantial and regular.
Posted by bex — 2 September 1999 at 8:00am
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There is a long tradition on St Kilda of people being given a say on issues that concerned them. That tradition has now been revived, with everyone having the chance to vote on the future of St Kilda.
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Following the re-establishment of a parliament on the island of St Kilda last month, two of its founder members have fulfilled the participant's pledge to give everyone a say in the debate about the future of the islands. Donna Brown and Norman Chalmers, two descendants of St Kilda's original population, today started the first-ever public consultation on the new oil developments threatening the islands, by casting the first votes in the referendum.
Posted by bex — 1 September 1999 at 8:00am
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Greenpeace has launched an online referendum on whether or not oil exploration should continue in the seabed around the islands of St Kilda, West Scotland. Rob Gueterbock, Greenpeace St Kilda historian and oil analyst, explains:
"Away from the public gaze, the Government has been carving up and selling off the Atlantic seabed around St Kilda, Britain's only Natural World Heritage Site, to multinational oil companies. Drilling could start any day now without any public debate having taken place. The Government has never set up a vote and the oil companies certainly haven't.
