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New report: ambitious efficiency &
renewables targets could slash imports by 45 per cent more than EU plans
Brussels, 25 June 2014 – As EU leaders consider measures
to improve Europe’s energy security at a summit in Brussels, a new report has
exposed European Commission plans as woefully inadequate to cut reliance on
energy imports, said Greenpeace. The report released today shows that strong EU
commitments on renewables and energy efficiency could reduce the need for
imports by 45 per cent more in 2030 than under the EU’s existing plans
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Brussels, 9 April 2014 – New rules on state aid adopted today by the European
Commission will make it harder for the UK and other governments to subsidise
nuclear energy projects like the new reactors at Hinkley Point, said
Greenpeace.
The UK government wants to grant
unprecedented levels of public subsidies and disproportionately favourable
conditions for the mainly state-owned French energy giant EDF to build two new
nuclear reactors at Hinkley, in the south-west of England. The Commission is
currently investigating the UK plan for a possible breach of EU competition
rules.
UK ministers unsuccessfully lobbied the EU
executive until the very last minute to make nuclear energy eligible for aid
under the new rules.
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Commenting on the EU climate and energy package announced today, Greenpeace UK Executive Director John Sauven said:
"After months of bickering and in-fighting the European commission has produced a set of proposals that will satisfy almost no-one. They will do little to tackle climate change and in their current form give little certainty to Europe's once thriving but now fragile clean tech sector. They would also leave European consumers hopelessly exposed to rising fossil fuel prices, which is what drove up energy bills in the first place.
Posted by Hugh Mouser — 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm
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Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles
I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.
But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.
Posted by Hugh Mouser — 27 June 2013 at 6:13pm
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Clean car vote postponed? We're fuming
Posted by jamess — 27 June 2013 at 10:50am
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You want it? You got it..
We've heard from an inside source that Angela Merkel the German Chancellor called Prime Minister David Cameron last night in a bid to block a critical law to make cleaner European cars. Ministers were supposed to agree the law today.
Posted by Elena Polisano — 18 June 2013 at 4:22pm
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German environment minister Peter Altmaier is keen to keep gas guzzlers on the road
It was 6.30am in Luxembourg and we were all keen to start. We got into our vans ready to launch our final action for cleaner cars in Europe. But this morning it was different. Instead of a handful of national activists calling on a car company to clean up its act, we went big.There were thirty of us from across Europe who came together for the whole day to unveil a banner, placards and hand out flyers telling European governments to stand up to the bullying of Germany and its environment minister Peter Altmaier.
