A young climate change activist who took part in Camp Frack, a three-day protest last September at a site near Blackpool. Photograph: Mar Photographics/Alamy Fracking plans provoke claims of pollution threat to UK’s water reserves Fracking – the extraction of shale gas – was halted last year after it was linked to a series of [...]
People gathered in the village hall in Balcombe, West Sussex, hear of hydraulic fracturing plans. Fracking techology was blamed for triggering earthquakes near Blackpool. Photograph: Martin Godwin/for the Guardian After earthquakes in Lancashire and tales of poisoned water and flaming taps in the US, “fracking” for gas or oil in the English home counties was never likely to be [...]
One of the difficulties exposed in this article is the use of money and expense as a standard in a discussion that should be about attitudes to energy, waste and reducing emissions. The whole basis of the capitalist fight against the unwanted, by them, environmental objectives is to pounce on cost as a way to [...]
An EDF nuclear plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, France. The company was fined for spying on Greenpeace this month. Photograph: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images UK government shared intelligence with nuclear industry, documents show Greenpeace complains to high court after energy department passes details of legal battle to Nuclear Industry Association The British government has been quietly exchanging intelligence on [...]
Fracking industry will be minimally regulated in UK, letters reveal A shale gas drilling platform in Fort Worth, Texas – the industry has avoided heavy regulation in the US. Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images Correspondence between government and agencies shows confusion as to who will be responsible for controversial practice reddit this Comments (35) John [...]
The oil sheen from a leak at Shell’s Gannett Alpha platform, 112 miles east of Aberdeen. Photograph: Marine Scotland The oil sheen on the surface of the North Sea that followed the UK’s worst oil spill for a decade has finally disappeared, according to Shell, after the company managed to plug its leaking pipeline on Friday. Government officials [...]
Shell’s second oil leak in North Sea pipeline caused by relief valve Campaigners and politicians have criticised the oil company for being slow to release information on the spill Shell Gannett Alpha platform oil spill in the North Sea. Photograph: Marine Scotland Fiona Harvey and Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 15.03 BST Article history [...]
The Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea. Photograph: Royal Dutch Shell Ho/EPA The flow of oil from the worst spill in UK waters in the past decade, at one of Shell’s North Sea platforms, has been “greatly reduced” but not yet stopped completely, the government said on Monday. Conservationists warned that the leak could harm bird [...]
Has oil production already peaked? Photograph: Corbis/BarbaraDavidson In public, the last government shrugged off the prospect of peak oil. In private, we know now that it had a different view. A powerpoint presentation released at last by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, in response to freedom of information (FoI) requests by the indefatigable [...]
Environmental tax threatens green energy research in UK Carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme has ‘perverse effect’ of threatening zero-carbon energy research Share11 Comments (40) Ian Sample, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 May 2011 15.38 BST Article history The Culham laboratory operates the Joint European Torus (JET) – the largest fusion device in the world. [...]
