Action on climate emergency
Cumbria mine developers seek compensation when we all thought the Woodhouse coalmine near Whitehaven had been confined to the dustbin of history. Well not quite, as on 11 August The Guardian reported that the government is being sued in a secretive “corporate court” despite the proposed new coalmine in Cumbria being quashed by the high …
No coal in Cumbria, as the Whitehaven coalmine’s planning application has been abandoned, ending a process that could have created the UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years. As previously reported on this web site, the Cumbrian mine was ruled unlawful last September, with the judge agreeing with Friends of the Earth, which brought the …
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 …
Drax will raise carbon emissions as thousands marched in London yesterday demanding action on polluted water. The Guardian reported earlier today that Drax power station near Selby, North Yorkshire, will keep raising the levels of carbon emissions in the atmosphere until the 2050s despite using carbon capture technology, according to scientific research. An earlier study …
UK’s last coal fired power station closes. Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire has closed. Demolition of the site will follow after decommissioning, and is set to take two years. The site is situated off the A453 near the M1, and adjacent to East Midlands Parkway railway station. It’s an East Midlands landmark providing power for …
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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 …
Rich emitters (0.1% in Britain) according to research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) emit 22 times more from transportthan low earners, and 12 times more than average. This was just one of the finding of the IPPR report which looked at transport emissions by income, gender, location, ethnicity and age. The study broke …
End of the Cumbrian coalmine? In December 2022, the levelling up secretary Michael Gove MP, approved plans to build theWoodhouse Colliery near Whitehaven. He said the UK would need the coal in order to carry on making steel. However, newly revealed documents, drafted around the same time at the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy …
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 …