Days after Shell received US Government backing for its plans to drill in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers from Greenpeace have occupied its 'Polar Pioneer' oil rig in the Pacific Ocean to demand a halt to all Arctic oil exploration.
… Greenpeace occupies Shell rig after Arctic … 2015 News Oil Oceans Pollution Regulation USA greenpeace-shell-cut.jpg Days after Shell … Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers from Greenpeace have occupied its 'Polar Pioneer' …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
… to foreign fossil fuels Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th January 2015 News … the Coalition, according to an analysis by Greenpeace Energydesk. The total support for … 30% of Russian coal imports to the UK. A Greenpeace investigation found the UK spends …
Indian coal firm Adani is struggling to finance its proposed mega coal mine in Australia's Galilee Basin, write Marina Lou & Christine Ottery, as promised government support evaporates and a major investor looks set to pull out.
… Reef coal project Marina Lou Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 16th March 2015 News … from burning coal - which as reported by Greenpeace, is worse in Delhi than Beijing - … Marina Lou & Christine Ottery write for Greenpeace Energydesk . This article is an …
LED light bulbs are cheap and energy efficient, writes Chris Goodall. A crash programme to replace all the lights in the UK with LEDs would cut electricity bills, reduce carbon emissions and other pollution from coal and diesel generation, and reduce the risk of blackouts.
… calculations (carried out under a project for Greenpeace UK) suggest that the need for … in diverse sectors As part of my work for Greenpeace, I located 100 case histories of …
VW's pollution cheating has caused thousands of premature deaths, write Mike Berners-Lee & Chris Goodall, creating costs that could destroy the company's entire shareholder equity. But this is no 'Black Swan' event. It is an early example of the existential threat to the fossil fuel economy.
… fine particulates than regulators thought. Greenpeace estimates that an extra 60,000 to … and 17,000. (These are numbers provided by Greenpeace ). A UK academic study (para 18, …
As Shell's Polar Pioneer drilling rig sails from Seattle into the north Pacific, Christine Ottery discovers that US federal regulators had serious concerns about the company's safety equipment designed to contain any oil spill.
… Shell's Arctic spill safety Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 19th June 2015 News … This article was originally published on Greenpeace Energydesk . Additional reporting / …
As public spaces become blighted by the £18 billion global outdoors advertising industry, community groups are fighting back to reclaim both ad-free areas or use billboards in a socially beneficial way
… Advert Activist Consumerism Junk Food Greenpeace Amnesty International Shell Bp … ‘Tesco2' in protest of their emissions, and Greenpeace ran a competition to alter BP's …
Government plans to pay coal and diesel generators to stay open the winter after next to 'keep the lights on' betray dangerously old-fashioned thinking, writes Chris Goodall. Not only would it subsidise our dirtiest electricity - it's also incredibly costly. Why not just pay people to reduce their demand when power supplies are stretched?
… post will use analysis I have been done for Greenpeace on the impact of switching to LEDs …