Action on climate emergency
Less carbon capture investment is to be made by Drax just weeks after the government agreed to pay extra public subsidies worth about half a billion pounds a year to help the company develop its carbon capture project after 2027, as we recently reported. The Drax Group said it will provide less carbon capture investment …
Drax carbon capture and AI is now in the news as Artificial Intelligence use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water. It also indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs, as Yale Environment 360 reports. …
Uncovering a dirty business as plastics come at an unstainable cost to the environment. They are a ticking time bomb, so writes Alexander Clapp in his latest book ‘Waste Wars’ published on 25 February. In this amazing expose of how and why, for the last forty years, our rubbish has developed a massive global black …
Changes to Drax support have been announced with the government halving subsidies and insisting that the company uses 100% sustainable wood. Reduced subsidies were announced for the wood-burning power plant Drax this week, with the government claiming the new deal will halve consumer costs and improve sustainability. It also ordered it to use 100% sustainable …
Their profit – our loss is clear as the Norwegian state owner of the Rosebank oilfield off Shetlands has announced that it made £24 billion in global profits last year and plans to cut billions from its spending on green energy. At the end of January a Scottish court ruled that the earlier consent for …
Happy bees and other pollinators as the government bans bee-killing pesticides for emergency use in the UK in response to an application for its use from the NFU (National Farmers’ Union) and British Sugar. The neonicotinoid pesticide Cruiser SB, which is used on sugar beet, is highly toxic to bees and has the potential to …
Campaign against ‘forever chemicals’ is a focus currently for local residents as Bentham has been found to have the the highest identified concentration of synthetic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the UK. It is believed this is due to Angus International Safety Group (Angus Fire), which previously produced firefighting foams containing PFAS at a …
You are what you eat! As a vegan for longer than I can remember the past few years have seen a revolution in the growth of veganism which I welcome. Often celebrity led it has brought a much wider range of vegan foods and drinks onto the market which at first glance is good news. …
Cow feed additive query spotlighted at December’s Green Café. Following recent media reports that Arla Foods, a Danish-Swedish company based in Viby, Denmark, which owns the UK’s biggest dairy cooperative (with a site located in Settle) had announced that 30 of its farms across the country would test the additive, named Bovaer. The company behind …
Housing over the environment? Is a question posed by the publication last week by the government of an 82-page National Planning Policy Framework report outlining what it hopes to do – and how. It is subject to publicconsultation, but there are serious concerns that housing will take priority over nature and the environment, The Guardian reports. Changes …