In a week which has seen the UK Government shift the fracking argument away from price benefits (always an erroneous case) the pro fracking lobby is now scrambling around to find and play up to the public the wider economic benefits shale gas development could bring to Britain. Alex Stevenson reports....
… Minister's logic was grounded in "baseless economics" because gas is a commodity sold on … on price," a spokesperson said. "It's economics, isn't it?" Supporters of shale gas … UK energy bills is grounded in "baseless economics". …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… | 11th September 2013 News Protest Politics Economics Mining goldmine.jpg Entrance to a …
Environmentalists should support working class struggles, argues Stephanie McMillan. Ecocide is the inevitable outcome of capitalism - and only the working class has the power to bring the system down.
Global capitalism is the real enemy Stephanie McMillan | 30th December 2013 Comment Politics occupy-berlin.png Environmentalists should support working class struggles, argues Stephanie McMillan. …
Naomi Salmon argues that human rights law can - and should - have a crucial role in the fight to green our food systems ...
Putting people at the heart of the sustainable food debate Dr Naomi Salmon | 8th November 2013 Comment Food And Farming Politics Law foodrights.jpg Could human rights law be used to influence food …
As investors flock to the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch warns that - as usual - it won't be the Mozambiquans who reap the multi billion dollar rewards of an economic boom in what remains the world's second poorest country......
… | 27th September 2013 News Africa Resources Economics Politics moza,mbique.jpg As …
As the UK Government's green policies come under sustained attack from Tory and UKIP right-wingers, Lib-Dem Leader Nick Clegg nails his green colours to the mast.
Staying the course on the environment Nick Clegg | 7th November 2013 Comment Politics Energy Natural World Green Economy nick_clegg_bournemouth_rally.png As the UK Government's green policies come …
Lord Stern's bold initiative to tackle climate change "unhelpful" says UK Government: free trade and economic growth take precedence over climate change ...
… authored his influential Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published by the …
The National Trust for Ireland and Greenpeace have launched two independent legal challenges to UK Government plans for new nuclear power plants at Hinkley Point, Somerset, re-opening long-standing questions about nuclear safety.......
… Dorfman | 16th July 2013 News Energy Politics Economics Climate Change …
Andrew Nikiforuk warns us that the Canadian pro-Bitumen lobby will stop at nothing - including ignoring democratic processes and barefaced lying - to promote the dirty, carbon-rich substance.....
Beware Our Bitumen Salesmen Andrew Nikiforuk | 4th October 2013 Comment Tar Sands Canada Politics Energy bitumen.jpg It takes 2 tonnes of sand to produce one carbon-rich barrel of low quality …
Yesterday Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement to a braying House of Commons. For Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett, his speech was a glorious exposition of stupidity and deliberate ignorance. No wonder his backbenchers loved it ...
… Bennett | 6th December 2013 Comment Politics Economics Transport Energy natalie-bennett.png …
Cuts to feed-in tariffs and hostility to large-scale farms have undermined the UK's solar energy sector. But changes are under way in the heart of government. Could 2014 be the UK's 'year of the sun'?
2014 - the UK's year of the sun? Alex Stevenson Oliver Tickell | 20th December 2013 News Energy Politics UK Renewable Energy Solar spv-2.png Cuts to feed-in tariffs and hostility to large-scale farms …
Robin Maynard tells the Ecologist why he is trying to encourage environmental NGOs to have the courage to move beyond a politically correct stance on issues of population growth and really engage with the big questions......
… 30th August 2013 Comment Population Politics Economics polarbear.jpg Robin Maynard tells … those interested in human rights but also economics and the environment - not have them …
The Environment Agency, the UK's lead eco-regulator, faces huge cuts that may leave it unable to fulfill its legal mandate. The Government is making a false economy, argues Veerle Heyvaert, and betraying its green promises.
… is a Reader in Law at the London School of Economics. She does not work for, consult to, …
With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's energy policy debate is already heating up, reports Alex Stevenson.....
Labour ready to gamble on Miliband's price freeze gambit Alex Stevenson | 26th September 2013 News Energy Politics pricefreeze.jpg With 20 months to go until the next general election, Britain's …
Government claims the cull is to protect fish stocks, but campaigners say seals are clubbed to death for their fat and fur. John Vidal reports.......
Seal Clubbing in Namibia: Shocking footage just released John Vidal | 4th July 2013 News Natural World Politics seal.jpg Seal pups, just a few months old, are killed with spiked wooden clubs. …
Matt Adam Williams explains why yesterday's European Parliament vote will likely have environmentally negative impacts on the other side of the world.....
… | 12th September 2013 News Biofuels Politics Economics orangutan.jpg What will the European …
Air quality is back on Europe's political agenda with new proposals put forward by the EU environment commissioner, Janez Potočnik. But do the plans go far enough? Matthew Ledbury reports.
EU promises to act on Europe's toxic air Matthew Ledbury | 21st December 2013 News EU Air Quality Pollution Politics polluted-london.png Air quality is back on Europe's political agenda with new …
Earlier this month the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached 400ppm. Andrew Simms questions the apparent disinterest shown by the media.........
… indeed. Andrew Simms is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and the author of …
The UK's fracking protests are working says Jan Goodey who has been reporting for the Ecologist from Balcombe since the first of the protestors turned up to stop the drills
ANTI FRACKING SPECIAL REPORT: UK Jan Goodey Will Cottrell | 27th August 2013 News Climate Change Fracking Energy Politics balcombe1.jpg Camp supporters outside the Cuadrilla gate. Image courtesy of …
Australian environmentalists' declare new Prime Minister, Tony Abbotts' green agenda as ‘anti-environmental', designed only to profit the mining industry at the cost of climate change solutions, reports Maxine Newlands......
… on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the economics of carbon trading. Greenpeace …
Robin Millam from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is encouraged to by the progress being made by those countries and communities small and large who are seeking to give legal rights to nature.....
Rivers and Natural Ecosystems as Rights Bearing Subjects Robin R Milam | 3rd June 2013 Comment Natural World Politics Society shutterstock_47105743.jpg Giving nature rights makes it much harder for …
Ben Whitford takes a look at the candidates for the next Mayor of New York City and asks if any of them can fill the green shoes of Bloomberg........
After Bloomberg, will the Big Apple stay green? Ben Whitford | 20th September 2013 News Politics liberty.jpg Will the next Mayor of New York think about the next 20 years, or just the next election? …
Ben Whitford says that despite the lack of coverage of the IPCC report in the US media and ongoing denial of the science from certain political quarters, climate change activists in the US are feeling motivated........
Will the IPCC report spur U.S. policymakers to act? Ben Whitford | 1st October 2013 News Climate Change Politics capitol hill.jpg Many US policymakers are in denial about the 'bad weather' headed …
Rupert Wolfe Murray writes to Prince Charles about his grave concerns for the Rosia Montana region of Transylvania, under threat from Cyanide mining.......
Open Letter to Prince Charles about Cyanide mining in Romania Rupert Wolfe Murray | 12th September 2013 Comment Mining Romania Politics Protest rosiamontana.jpg Rupert Wolfe Murray writes to Prince …