Action on climate emergency
Soft plastics burned not recycled an investigation by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency, has found. Specifically, 70% of soft plastic collected in supermarket recycling schemes tracked after collection, ended up being burned. Soft plastics burned not recycled came to light by placing trackers inside packages of soft plastic that were collected by Tesco …
Are heat pumps the future? With the average cost of buying and installing a heat pump in the UK at £12,500, four or five times that of a gas boiler, Jillian Ambrose the Guardian’s Energy correspondent looks at the claims and counter-claims about the devices that are central to the government’s vision of a ‘home …
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Climate news around Yorkshire over the last months shows a focus on sewage and solar, as well as a worrying planning application for a fracking site. Although we may not have noticed here in North Yorkshire, but (meteorological) Summer 2024 was the Earth’s warmest on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Summer in …
Drax to pay fine of £25m after it was found to have failed to report accurate data on the type of material it burned at its site in North Yorkshire. As previously reported on this web site, Britain’s biggest power station, which provides about 5% of the UK’s electricity, receives large government subsidies for burning …
Drax the largest CO2 emitter was responsible for four times more carbon emissions than the UK’s last remaining coal-fired plant last year, despite taking more than £0.5bn in clean-energy subsidies in 2023, Jillian Ambrose the Guardian’s correspondence reported on 9 August. The power station near Selby in North Yorkshire burns wood pellets imported from North …
Solar generation is surging as a new record for solar is forecasted as Britain is heading to generate record levels of solar power this summer, according to expert forecasts, as the government plans to triple the country’s solar energy capacity by the end of the decade The Guardian reports. Despite a relatively dull summer solar …
Nature friendly farming works is the conclusion of a new report into its impact on wildlife numbers. In early June Yorkshire Wildlife Trust published the first-ever State of Yorkshire’s Nature report, which gave an accurate insight into how the whole of Yorkshire’s nature is faring – and, crucially, where action is now needed to create healthier, resilient …
Support a frack free Burniston is a call from residents of Burniston near Scarborough, as the local community face the potential of a fracking application to North Yorkshire Council from Egdon Resources & Europa Oil & Gas. A moratorium on fracking was applied by the government in 2019 to end support for fracking, as a …
Record Fine for Yorkshire Water as the company is among three water firms facing record £168m fines. With sewerage spillages into England’s seas and rivers more than doubling last year, Yorkshire Water, Northumbrian Water and Thames Water face £168m combined fines by the industry regulator over historic sewage spillages, the BBC News web site reports. …