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Posted by jossc — 17 June 2009 at 4:44pm
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Ed Miliband today announced the details of his new coal consultation. While recognising the need to reduce emissions from coal-fired power stations, as promised, it places equal emphasis on maintaining a "diverse, secure energy mix".
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Commenting on the launch today of a
new government consultation on the future of coal in Britain, Greenpeace executive
director John Sauven
said:
Posted by jossc — 28 May 2009 at 2:27pm
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We've made some progress on the coal campaign lately, with Climate and Energy Minister Ed Miliband finally ruling out any new coal-fired power stations that don't capture a proportion of the carbon they emit. But that's not nearly enough to save the climate.
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Posted by jossc — 23 April 2009 at 2:55pm
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It's certainly far from everything we've been asking for, but when Ed Miliband announced his new consultation on coal policy in the House of Commons this lunchtime it was clear that something had changed. For starters, E.ON isn’t going to get its
way over Kingsnorth, at least not with its current
plan.
Showing admirable signs of climate leadership in the face of resistance from Whitehall officials and his cabinet colleagues, the Energy and Climate Change secretary told MPs that no new coal-fired power stations would be built in Britain unless equipped with at least some carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. In a key departure from previous policy, he said that from now on power companies planning to build new coal plants will be required to fit full CCS by 2025 at the latest, provided that the Environment Agency is convinced that the technology works.
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Reacting to comments in this morning's Financial Times interview with Ed Miliband, in which he says the
government will not rule out new coal plants that don't capture and bury their
emissions, Greenpeace executive director John
Sauven said:
Posted by jossc — 22 December 2008 at 3:51pm
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Ed Miliband demonstrated the confusion at the of the heart of the government's energy and climate change strategies this morning when he refused to rule out new coal plants which don't capture and bury their emissions – just weeks after his own advisers warned there was no future for these power plants.
He attacked Conservative plans for the introduction of green standards for power stations that would rule out the dirtiest coal plants like E.ON's for Kingsnorth, as "knee jerk" and "not thought through". Apparently, he's happy to play party politics with coal and climate change, just days after he called for a people-powered movement on global warming. Hardly the way to inspire action on the most important issue of our time.
Posted by bex — 16 October 2008 at 6:28pm
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Has somebody put something in the water around Westminister? On Tuesday I found myself waxing lyrical about a new Tory announcement. Today it's Labour's turn. Frankly, I'm a little freaked out.
Ed Miliband - he who thousands of you congratulated when he got his new
job as climate change secretary - has announced a new
emissions reduction target for the UK. We will, he said, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, compared to 1990 figures.
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Commenting on the new emissions target announced today by Ed Miliband, Greenpeace chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
"This is a hugely encouraging first move from the new Climate Change secretary. In a decade in power Labour has never adopted a target so ambitious, far-reaching and internationally significant as this. To meet it will require determined action from Gordon Brown and every one of his successors for the next four decades, hard choices will be made that will touch every Briton, but it can and must be done."
He continued:
Posted by bex — 3 October 2008 at 3:15pm
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Ed Miliband (image by Christian Guthier, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)
Big news from this morning's
Cabinet reshuffle: Gordon Brown has created a new department for climate
change and energy, and Ed Miliband has been appointed its head.
This is, potentially,
fantastic stuff. Until now, one department has been dealing with climate change
and another - the department for business (DBERR) - with energy. This entirely
nonsensical division hamstrung any chances of a coherent, low carbon energy
policy and kept business and environmental interests at perpetual loggerheads.
No prizes for guessing who usually won.