Reacting to the announcement this morning by John Hutton that the government intends to encourage the construction of new nuclear power stations, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said:
Posted by jamie — 9 January 2008 at 12:36pm
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As Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone might not be the perfect politician but at least he's streets ahead of central government on climate change and reducing emissions in the capital. His latest ploy is to hold a light bulb amnesty during which Londoners can exchange their old incandescent bulbs for a bright new energy-efficient one.
According to london.gov.uk, you can take up to two old-fashioned bulbs to any London branch of B&Q between Friday 11 and Sunday 13 January and exchange them for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) provided by British Gas. Nice.
Posted by jamie — 8 January 2008 at 2:25pm
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The Mail waxes lyrical about its favourite subject
What fun the media has been having with light bulbs
lately, peddling claims that they are extremely dangerous due to the mercury
they contain and that they could cause skin cancer. With an eye recently
sobered by new year abstinence, let's take a closer look.
Posted by bex — 3 January 2008 at 11:15am
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It will be the UK's first new coal fired power plant in 34 years. It will emit as much carbon dioxide as the 30 least polluting nations in the world combined. And the world's leading climate scientist has called it "a tipping point for the world".
The proposal for a new coal-fired power plant at Kingsnorth in Kent has been given the go-ahead by Medway Council. At a meeting last night, only three of the 16 councillers objected to E.ON's application,
meaning that the plant - which will generate electricity in the most
climate-wrecking way known to humankind - has been approved, potentially starting a new coal rush in the UK.
Posted by bex — 2 January 2008 at 2:14pm
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2007 is being hailed as the year in which the environmental movement turned a corner and climate change leapt to the top of the agenda. Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize; Climate Camp became a household name; and an unsuspecting humpback whale named Mister Splashy Pants became a global phenomenon.
So what were you most interested in? This list of our ten most-read blogs on our website last year (well, since we launched the blog in April) shows, unsurprisingly, that for most of our readers, it was climate change, climate change, climate change. Oh, and Mister Splashy Pants...
The energy debate ruled a lot of 2007, and our film on nuclear power vs decentralised energy was far and away our most popular blog of the year, with around three times more traffic than any other story. With the government about to make its announcement on nuclear (again), the debate's as relevant now as it was then - so it's worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.
The renowned NASA climate scientist Dr James Hansen today challenged Gordon Brown to end UK moves to build new coal-fired power stations.
Energy giant E.ON is currently seeking permission to build the country's first new coal-fired plant for more than thirty years at Kingsnorth in Kent. Now Hansen is writing to Brown explaining why he thinks it is crucial that Britain rules out the plan.
Speaking at the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the largest gathering of the year for Earth scientists, Dr Hansen said:
We're used
to having some unusual people descending on our offices, but today's visit by
David Cameron and several other members of the shadow cabinet is the most
leftfield (or should that be rightfield?) visitation for some time. But they were
here to launch a new policy that uses many of our own demands for renewable
energy, a vital component in the struggle to limit the impacts of climate
change.
The UK government's position on energy inefficient lightbulbs was thrown into doubt today after its Irish counterpart announced legislation to introduce mandatory efficiency standards for light bulbs which will see them banned by the beginning of 2009.
Posted by jossc — 6 December 2007 at 2:02pm
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Nobel
peace prize winner Al Gore would be proud. A few months ago, he said "I can't
understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and
preventing them from constructing coal-fired power stations." The people of Merthyr
Tydfil in South Wales have taken him at his word (albeit one step further back
in the supply chain) to shut down work on Britain's biggest ever open-cast
coal mine.
