The sun is setting on nuclear power plans for the UK
For years the government has placed its faith in nuclear power and the
corporate interests that drive the nuclear industry. Its committment to the
nuclear dream has warped Britain’s energy
policy at the expense of both bill and tax
payers.
From work collaboration to music and movie digitization, there’s no
argument that cloud-computing has revolutionized how we interact and how
we are entertained. To meet our exponentially expanding appetite for
cloud-based IT, global tech leaders including Microsoft, Apple, and
Amazon are understandably expanding cloud capacity at a breakneck pace.
Hot on the heels of Germany’s ambitious renewable
energy plans, the Danish government went even further and announced last week that they plan to get half of their country’s total
electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2020 and 100% of total energy, including electricity, heating, industry
and transport, by 2050.
Responding to news today that the power
station at Kingsnorth in Kent is to close down, Ben Stewart of Greenpeace, who
was one of six campaigners acquitted of criminal damage in 2008 after shutting
down the coal plant, said:
“This decision signals the drawing to an end
of unabated highly polluting coal in Britain. Eon spent many wasted years
trying to push through their controversial plan for another old-fashioned
polluting coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth.
Posted by bex — 21 February 2012 at 5:00pm
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It’s
official. On Friday, Shell got a step closer to drilling for oil in our
planet’s last wild ocean - the Arctic.
The
company’s oil spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska was
given the all clear by US authorities, even though it’s a work of almost
complete fantasy.
The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new
report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of
the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.
