Continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons ‘torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights’.
… Support for worldwide fracking ban Marianne Brooker | 5th March 2020 News Change Makers Fracking Energy Activist Un EU fracking-699657_960_720.jpg Continued …
Almost all UK laws that regulate fracking's impact on the environment emanate from EU directives and regulations, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Once out of the EU, the UK would be free to amend them, scrap them or simply ignore them. And given the UK's record of support for fracking and lobbying in Brussels for deregulation, that may be exactly what the Brexiteers have planned.
… Brexit could lead to a bonfire of fracking regulations Zachary Boren Energydesk | 21st June 2016 News Fracking Regulation EU UK Fossil Fuels … Almost all UK laws that regulate fracking's impact on the environment emanate …
The world is in the grip of a 'fracking frenzy that threatens us for centuries to come with polluted aquifers, runaway climate change, destruction of biodiversity and worthless 'sub-prime' investments. Just as the world must make the transition to a sustainable future, our 'leaders' are determined to make this last losing throw of the fossil fuel dice.
… 'Fracking frenzy' - how the shale gas industry … of the Earth Europe | 11th December 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels EU Climate Change Pollution Waste USA fracking-sign-karoo-cut.jpg The world is in …
The raft of 'free trade' agreements under negotiation represents a massive seizure of power by corporations, writes Joyce Nelson - effectively stripping democratic governments of their power to legislate for health, environment, labour or anything else that could reduce corporate profit. But the mainstream media are mysteriously silent.
… sued to open up the St Lawrence River to fracking, or pay massive damages. TTIP, TPP … government issued a moratorium against fracking. As of February 2015, that Lone Pine … the case, "it will crack the world open to fracking." Indeed, these crappy trade deals …
Europe's new targets for carbon emissions and renewable energy are severely retrograde and fly in the face of both science and economics. They will endanger climate and retard the renewable energy revolution.
… Tickell | 22nd January 2014 News Energy Fracking Fossil Fuels EU UK Renewable Energy … commitment to tackling it." A win for fracking and nuclear power The UK Government … 75GW of power. It also gives comfort to the fracking industry - in which the Government …
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out in the next decade. The one hard policy? To maximise oil and gas recovery.
… sounds to me like "Sorry I haven't a clue." Fracking hell Then there's the question - … our real diversity of imports." You got it, fracking. But there's a few problems with … around the country are rising up against fracking in their areas. Second, the …
Polish PM Donald Tusk is using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revive the EU's fossil fuel industries. His proposals spell disaster for EU emissions targets and the wider environment, writes Mark Siddi. Europe's energy future must be efficient and renewable!
… Siddi | 9th July 2014 Comment Poland EU Coal Fracking Fossil Fuels Climate Change Politics … of extraction would therefore be larger. Fracking - the hype, and the reality Indeed, … technique of hydraulic fracturing (or 'fracking': essentially, breaking sedimentary …
The TTIP - a massive trade and investment deal under negotiation between the US and the EU - could be the end of democracy as we know it, writes Morton Thaysen, as corporate rights will supplant those of ciizens and elected governments. Join a global day of action today!
… Big Six energy companies in the UK, or ban fracking. Harmonisation? Or a race to the … environment, giving harmful industries like fracking an easier ride; the removal of food … forces with small local businesses and anti-fracking activists come together with trade …
A new report names the 30 biggest sources of greenhouse gases in the EU, writes Kieran Cooke. Coal-fired power plants are undermining Europe's long-term targets on emissions reductions - and the UK and Germany lead the list of shame.
Germany and UK top EU's 'Dirty 30' pollution league Kieran Cooke | 22nd July 2014 News Climate Change Pollution Coal Fossil Fuels Energy EU UK Germany tagebau_garzweiler-cut.jpg A new report names …
… 3rd December 2019 News Gas Shale Gas Pipeline Fracking EU US Russia Thought Leaders … forced the energy companies driving European fracking to conclude the ventures were an …
The US is busy negotiating two sprawling new trade deals, with the European Union and 11 Pacific Rim nations, and progressives are up in arms. Ben Whitford asks: Just how bad are the deals?
… $250 million over a Quebecois moratorium on fracking. Corporations filed at least 514 such … to the overthrow of European moratoria on fracking, and to the lifting of US …
The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
… this could have in Europe. Firms involved in fracking, drilling, mining and other … US corporation Riverstone LLC, and similar fracking companies. 3. The thin end of wide …
A new Trade Secrets law to be voted on next week by the European Parliament threatens a massive clampdown on journalists and whistle-blowers, write Anne Friel & Anaïs Berthier, giving corporations the right to sue those who disclose private information even in the public interest to protect health, safety and environment.
… health, safety and environment. In the UK, fracking sharply divides opinions and …
The investor protections in the US-EU TTIP treaty would privilege US corporations over the EU's own citizens and businesses, writes Laurens Ankersmit & Oliver Tickell. That would sideline EU courts and undermine the completion of the internal market. It is therefore essential that the EU Court be asked to rule whether they are legal.
… investors to challenge the revocation of a fracking permit following protests and new …
British MPs have rebuked the government for its secretive and apathetic response to public concerns over the TTIP EU-US trade deal, demanding that nations' 'right to regulate' for health, environment and the wider public interest must stand at the heart of any future agreement.
… challenging environmental regulations on fracking." Other examples include challenging …
When the UK joined the EU in 1973, it was dubbed the 'dirty man of Europe' thanks to its out of control pollution, writes Craig Bennett. Since then EU laws have forced us to clean up our act. But if we leave, all that may go into the reverse, with terrible impacts on our air, water, health, and wildlife.
… and acting as cheer-leader in chief for the fracking industry. Even the air we breathe is …
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump are trying to give TTIP a second life in a different form.
TTIP rises from the grave? Nick Meynen | 25th February 2019 News TTIP Trump EU Trade International Trade Thought Leaders Trump Juncker European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US …
The fight against TTIP is being picked up by local authorities across the UK and other EU countries, writes Kevin Smith. Even Brussels - where the European Commission has been negotiating the deal with its US counterparts - has joined the movement. And now, with the election of the anti-TTIP MP Jeremy Corbyn's as Labour Leader, it's time to drive the message all the way home.
… decision to deny planning permission for fracking would be harder to make under TTIP - …
The new Commission may have dropped environmental protection from its 2015 work plan - but it's pressing ahead with a new Directive to protect corporate secrecy, threatening consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers.
… on the dumping of chemicals, including fracking fluids, or releasing toxins into the …
A failure to act to reduce the impacts of climate change could cost Europe almost €200 billion and 200,000 lives a year, writes Tim Radford. These 'conservative estimates' are published in a new European Commission study.
Climate inaction could cost Europe 200,000 lives a year Tim Radford | 16th July 2014 News EU Climate Changes Flooding Forests Health sun-russian-smoke-cut.jpg A failure to act to reduce the impacts …
To achieve true sustainability, ecological movements across Europe must push for independence from an EU ideologically locked into a neoliberal 'free trade' agenda wedded to endless economic growth, writes David Acunzo.
… and succeeded in aborting further control on fracking activities . It also appears to be …
A Senate vote yesterday to deny President Obama 'fast track' authority in negotiating TPP and TTIP looks like the beginning of the end for these trade deals and their secret corporate courts, writes Nick Dearden. Now it's up to Europeans to make sure the EU Parliament votes against TTIP in a crucial vote next month.
… Canada sued for placing a moratorium on fracking, taking a health damaging additive …
The Greens are now running at 12% in the polls - 2% more than the LibDems, and up 3% in as many days - in the run up to Thursday's elections, reports Elise Benjamin. And their policies are the most popular of all the UK's parties. The Greens are breaking through!
… were voting Green because of fears about fracking." And from the Evening Standard ... …
The solar industry is going great, with tens of gigawatts of new capacity planned for 2014 alone. But as Jonathon Porritt writes, the solar revolution could be going even faster - with smart, consistent policies for solar power in Europe and Japan.
… go by, with its febrile, knee-jerk embrace of fracking as the solution to all our problems, …