Clean UK power will protect households from gas price rises – Kwasi Kwarteng
Consumers will be better protected from fluctuating gas prices as wind and solar provide more energy, the business secretary said today.
Third Energy seeks geothermal heat from old Ryedale gas wells
A company that tried to frack in North Yorkshire three years ago says it wants to re-use old gas sites for renewable energy.
Shale gas is one of least sustainable ways to produce electricity – new report
Research by scientists at Manchester University has found that shale gas is one of the least sustainable choices for generating electricity.
Directors, fracking and decarbonising energy
Almost three quarters of Britain’s company directors support decarbonisation of energy to mitigate climate change, and even more are in favour of greater use of solar, offshore wind and wave and tidal energy, according to new research.
Red line protest outside Manchester oil and gas conference
Campaigners against climate change from across northern England formed a symbolic thin red line outside a meeting in Manchester about UK onshore oil and gas Martin Porter, of Manchester Greenpeace, told a demonstration of around 50 people outside the city’s conference centre “Fracking is our red line” It was not […]
Plans approved to power fracking protest village from the sun
A group in Balcombe in West Sussex, scene of some of the UK’s biggest anti-fracking protests, has won approval for a solar farm that would supply the village and its neighbour with all their electricity.
Guest post: “IPCC tries a gamble with shale gas”
14th April 2014 The latest IPCC report urges a dash for gas to allow us to reduce the burning of coal. And it accepts the use of shale gas, which threatens to be far more polluting than originally thought. ALEX KIRBY, of the CLIMATE NEWS NETWORK, argues that the IPCC […]
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