Action on climate emergency
Rosebank back in court as Shell has won a landmark case in the Dutch courts, overturning a 2021 ruling requiring it to cut its carbon emissions by 45%. Ironically the ruling came as the UN climate talks (COP 29), involving some 200 countries, started in Azerbaijan earlier today. The Hague court of appeal said it …
No more subsidies for Drax. Fossil Free North Yorkshire (FFNY) along with other environmental groups have called on Ed Miliband Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero not to agree any extension of subsidies for tree burning power stations at Drax in Selby and Lynemouth in Northumberland. In a letter to the Secretary …
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 …
Will Labour ban new licences? The Guardian reports that following its election victory the Labour government is facing a legal dilemma over plan to impose an immediate ban on new North Sea oil and gas exploration before the industry’s latest licensing round closes. Its election manifesto pledged to the banning of new North Sea exploration …
The ‘dash for gas’ and oil as temperatures soar is reported across media in worrying news that last year was the warmest on record. It is generally accepted that this is a result of human-caused climate change and has also been influenced by the natural El Niño weather event. The news comes just weeks after …
What is war good for? Oil profits, if the fact that 2023 was a bumper year for shareholders investing in oil is anything to go by. While the majority struggle to cope with the cost of living crisis and the hike in energy prices, shareholders in the five largest oil companies can expect record pay-outs …
A petition to Stop Rosebank oil field has been launched by Change.org and sponsored by Stop Rosebank, calling on Equinor and its owner the Norwegian Government to stop Rosebank and all new oil and gas fields, following the UK government’s approval in September for the project. The oil giant Equinor, which is majority-owned by the …
Letter to Julian Smith MP, followed by his reply: Dear Julian I am writing on behalf of ACE Settle and area to ask you to urge the Prime Minister to reconsider his and the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary’s decision to sanction the Rosebank oil field. I do so for the following reasons: In …