Action on climate emergency
Green economy a big employer has been revealed by a new report published yesterday – with more than one million workers nowemployed as part of the UK’s green economy, where earnings are 11% higher than the national average and they contribute a combined £105bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK economy. The report …
Blair wrong about oil and gas. Former prime minister Tony Blair’s recent essay into Labour’s failings called on the government (amongst other things) to abandon net zero and restrictions on North Sea oil and gas. But can the North Sea really save us? Writing in Byline Times Substack on 29 May, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed …
Are your data centres green? Is a question being posed in Scotland as green data centres are at the heart of the Scottish governments ambitions to develop economically
Support climate crisis film – Settle’s local MP has been asked to support the televising of film about the climate crisis by Settle’s climate emergency group (ACE). The Group has written to Skipton and Ripon’s MP Sir Julian Smith.
Shell profits in oil crisis as the BBC News website reports that Shell has become the latest energy giant to report a jump in profits following the sharp increase in oil prices since the beginning of the Iran war. It reported profits of $6.92bn (£5.1bn) for the first three months of the year, higher than analysts …
Fracking at Burniston rejected by North Yorkshire’s strategic planning committee as they turn down a planning application by Europa Oil and Gas to install a 125ft (38m) rig in Burniston village, close to the North York Moors National Park. The decision was taken on Friday 24 April after after an almost five-hour meeting at Scarborough …
Drax pulls out of the government’s climate plan, meaning that long standing commitments by Drax that it would ‘help keep the lights on’ are now in serious doubt. The biomass company, which generates energy by burning wood pellets imported to its North Yorkshire plant near Selby, has controversially been backed by successive British governments since …
Poor returns for UK oil and gas would result from further drilling in the North Sea research by the campaign group Uplift has found and also reported by The Guardian. To the extent that oil and gas fields off the Scottish coast would make little difference to the UK’s oil and gas production. A report …
Climate going beyond limits the United Nations is warning, as the Earth’s climate is further out of balance than at any time in recorded history, the UN’s weather agency warned recently. The World Meteorological Organisation says that our planet is gaining much more heat energy than it can release, driven by emissions of warming gases …
Burniston decision North Yorkshire Council’s as the government in February decided not to call in the planning application for the proposal by Europa Oil & Gas for a 125ft (38m) rig in Burniston. North Yorkshire Councillors will now meet in April to decide on a controversial application to drill for gas near the North York …