Posted by jossc — 4 January 2010 at 6:37pm
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It's been a long, difficult and wild ride at times, but an end to climate damaging carbon emissions from new coal power stations could be in sight at last. Finally, some politicians seem to have recognised that we can't cut our CO2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 AND keep
pumping the stuff out of our power plants - hooray!
Last December the government announced a new energy bill that explicitly recognises this reality. So far so good - but (as you'll be
shocked to discover) there's a problem. As yet the bill has no teeth - whilst it says that new power stations must be able to capture some of their emissions from the get go, it contains no guarantee that by 2025 all carbon emissions from coal must be captured, and that's the bit that really counts.
Commenting on energy
minister Ed Miliband's announcements on more nuclear power stations today,
Ben Ayliffe, head of Greenpeace's
nuclear campaign, said:
"Miliband can name as
many sites as he likes for new nuclear power stations, but the fact remains that
the figures simply don't add up.
Posted by jamie — 14 October 2009 at 2:40pm
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Ed Miliband receives some light reading material
As if using a large fluorescent pen to
highlight the reason why our volunteers were sitting up on top of the Palace of Westminster,
on Monday the Climate Change Committee (CCC) released its first annual report on
the government's progress in meeting its own emissions targets.
Not everything
in the report chimes with what we think is required (there's no room or need
for nuclear power, for instance) but what comes through loud and clear is the
scale of the challenge and the radical action required to meet it. Our climate
manifesto is exactly the sort of thing needed to deliver it.
The controversial proposal to build
a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent
has been thrown into doubt tonight. An email from German utility giant E.ON to
Greenpeace reveals the company no longer thinks construction is currently
economic. The email reveals the company is shelving the project for 2-3 years at
least.
Posted by jossc — 1 September 2009 at 1:30pm
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Since the Big If pledge launched in March, when Age of Stupid actor Pete Postletwaite promised the UK Energy and Climate Change minister Ed Miliband that he would return his OBE if the government gave the go-ahead for a new coal power station Kingsnorth, thousands of people have joined him in making pledges of their own.
Greenpeace UK has been a core member of the Big If coalition from the start, together with a wide range of other organisations including the RSPB, World Development Movement, Oxfam and the Women's Institute. Because if Kingsnorth and the other 10 plants planned to follow it get built, then we'll have next to no chance of meeting our CO2 reduction targets and reining in runaway climate change.
