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A call by David Cameron's favourite think tank for a radical new approach to UK energy policy was today echoed by the UK's biggest green groups. Policy Exchange is calling for the kind of greenhouse gas efficiency standard that is applied to cars to now be applied to power stations. The call comes on the same day that Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and the RSPB released a joint recommendation for the introduction of a tough new performance standard of 350g of CO2 per kilowatt hour for power plants.
Posted by jamie — 29 May 2008 at 10:25am
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It's long been known that energy giant
ExxonMobil has been pumping money into organisations and think tanks which have
spread confusion and doubt about climate change. Our own ExxonSecrets project
has been exposing the links between the company and these outspoken bodies for
several years.
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Reacting to
Gordon Brown's comments that the UK needs to increase its nuclear
power capacity, Robin Oakley, head of
Greenpeace's climate and energy campaign, said:
"This looks
like nothing more than a clumsy attempt by Brown to talk up British Energy's
share price. The nuclear industry has had a woeful 24 hours that must be shaking
confidence in this outdated technology.
"Sizewell B
shut down unexpectedly, clean-up costs are soaring and the reactor that
France want to sell us has had
construction halted for safety reasons.
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Tuesday's power cuts were due to an "antiquated energy system", according to
environmentalists.
Robin
Oakley, head of Greenpeace's climate and energy campaign,
said: "Britain's antiquated centralised
energy system relies on a few large power stations, such as our aging and
increasingly unreliable nuclear power plants. When they fail the impact can be
enormous. Sizewell B for example, the plant that failed on Tuesday, has the
single greatest need for back-up on the national
grid.
Posted by jossc — 28 March 2008 at 12:15pm
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This week the Rainbow Warrior marked the start of a six
week 'Target Climate Change' tour of New Zealand with an action against the Hellenic Sea, a 60,000 tonne bulk carrier owned by coal exporter Solid Energy. While it trades on NZ's clean green credentials the government is
making millions of dollars from Solid Energy peddling coal on the world
market - quite literally stoking the fires of climate change.
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Posted by jamie — 19 March 2008 at 4:53pm
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Another country is well on the way to making
the switch as last week Argentina
joined the rapidly growing list of nation states getting ready to use only
energy efficient light bulbs.
If the Argentinean president Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner gets her way, by the end of 2010 mandatory efficiency
standards will be introduced which will effectively ban incandescent bulbs.
Better yet, she said her decision came as a direct result of the campaign run
by our office in Buenos Aires.
And earlier this year, Italy followed Ireland's example to become the
second EU country to propose similar efficiency standards and is also expected
to remove incandescents from sale in 2010. All these bulb bans are a small but
vital step in reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, and introducing minimum
energy efficiency standards on all electrical equipment has to be the ultimate
goal.
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Five of the 'Kingsnorth Six' at the top of the 200m chimney
Today five six of our
volunteers faced their first court hearing over the shutting down of one of Britain's dirtiest power stations, at Kingsnorth
in Kent, last October. They pleaded 'not guilty' at Maidstone Crown Court to charges of criminal
damage and trespass. The charges relate to climbing a 200m smokestack on the site
and painting a message to the prime minister - "GORDON BIN IT" in huge
letters down the side. They took action because the government is
considering considering proposals for a new generation of coal-fired
plants.
