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 troubled Hinkley C nuclear power station faces a legal challenge from Germany's biggest energy co-op, which claims that the subsidy package will distort energy markets across Europe and disadvantage renewable generators and vendors.
… Greenpeace Energy to launch legal challenge to … vendors. German green power supply company Greenpeace Energy (GPE) will take legal action … market An expert opinion commissioned by Greenpeace Energy from analysts Energy …
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
… ttip-leaks-cut.jpg Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations … to corporate profit and commercial interests. Greenpeace Netherlands has released a huge … , said Sylvia Borren, Executive Director Greenpeace Netherlands. "It is time for the …
Ignoring its significant solar and wind power potential, Turkey is planning a massive 'dash for coal' with over 37,000 MW of new coal fired power stations.
… This is the key finding from a Bankwatch and Greenpeace Mediterranean fact finding mission … is described in detail in the Bankwatch / Greenpeace report Black clouds looming - how … until 2018", said Gulcin Sahin from Greenpeace Mediterranean said. "Turkish …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… energy landscape in seven years Areeba Hamid Greenpeace EnergyDesk Oliver Tickell | 20th … having serious impacts on Indians' health. Greenpeace India estimated between 85,000 to … energy future. Areeba Hamid writes for Greenpeace EnergyDesk . Oliver Tickell edits …
The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new 'gene editing' techniques as non-GM - in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
… gene-editing is genetic engineering" , said Greenpeace EU food policy director Franziska … of new GM techniques is a case in point." Greenpeace trade expert Juergen Knirsch warned … & Ricarda Steinbrecher. Principal source: Greenpeace media briefing The TTIP …
A new report finds that 28 nuclear reactors, 18 of them EDF plants in France and one at Sizewell in the UK, are at risk of failure 'including core meltdown' due to flaws in safety-critical components in reactor vessels and steam generators, writes Oliver Tickell. The news comes as EDF credit is downgraded due to a growing cash flow crisis and its decision to press on with Hinkley C.
… The review was carried out at the request of Greenpeace France following the discovery of … Spautz, responsible for nuclear campaign at Greenpeace France. The review, he added, …
Austria today filed its legal challenge to the UK's €108 billion support package for the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, writes Oliver Tickell. A second such challenge at the European Court is due from green energy suppliers in Germany and Austria who fear unfair competition from subsidised nuclear power in Poland, Czech and Hungary if the Hinkley C precedent stands.
… the UK's state support for Hinkley Point C. Greenpeace Energy, Energieversorgung Filstal, … these proposed subsidies." According to Greenpeace Energy's Michael Friedrich, "We are …
The UK has just opened a bidding round for fracking licences. But the rules contain only weak protections against fracking in National Parks and AONBs - and none at all for even the most important wildlife sites and drinking water aquifers.
Days into the 2017 pollution limits on the Brixton Road in Lambeth, South London, has already breached EU pollution limits for NO2 for the entire year. Meanwhile UK sales of diesel cars - one of the main causes of NO2 pollution - reached record levels in 2016, reflecting the government's failure to tackle the problem in spite of numerous court orders.
… Paul Morozzo, clean air campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "Despite growing concerns … on hybrid and electric alternatives." The Greenpeace petition to the government had …
Luxembourg will join Austria's legal challenge to the UK's support package for the Hinkley C nuclear power station. Meanwhile EDF has laid off 65 engineers working on the project in Paris, and the EU Commission has initiated proceedings against Hungary over its Paks II nuclear project with Rosatom.
… Adam Pawloff, anti-nuclear spokesman for Greenpeace Austria, who has been working …
The UK government kicked away one of the main financial supports for renewable energy in yesterday's budget. The surprise move will cost the sector £3.9 billion over the next five years and undermines any prospect of the country meeting its EU renewable energy targets.
… billion over the lifetime of this parliament. Greenpeace policy director Doug Parr said …
Just as EDF was due to make its 'final investment decision' on Hinkley C, writes Oliver Tickell, another delay. In spite of incredibly generous subsidies, the company is unable to finance it. Its last hope is to persuade the French state to take a 10% stake in the doomed project.
… February. John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK - the only national green NGO to …
Another week, another series of disasters for EDF and it's Hinkley C nuclear power project, writes Oliver Tickell, with the company's credit rating downgraded partly due to its exposure to the project, and its Chinese partner CGN ruling out a takeover of the site. How much longer can the tragicomedy continue before the curtain falls?
… case was filed in March 2015 by Germany's Greenpeace Energy and a host of other … UK green electricity supplier Ecotricity and Greenpeace UK are threatening further legal …
A serious flaw in the steel reactor vessel of a nuclear plant under construction in France raises safety fears for the EPR design, write Paul Brown & Oliver Tickell - and casts a dark shadow over the UK's troubled Hinkley C nuclear project.
… amid threats of legal action from Austria and Greenpeace Energy , and fears that the design …
Long-disused oil and gas wells in the US have been found to be a 'significant' source of the super greenhouse gas methane, writes Richard Heasman. The climate impact of oil and gas is underestimated, as this long term impact is not included in existing calculations.
… the local environment. Talking to DeSmogUK, Greenpeace UK's chief scientist Professor Doug …
New measures to compel local councils to speed up frackers' planning applications have a clear intention, writes Oliver Tickell - to make it ever harder for planners to refuse permission.
… that local authorities obey planning law. Greenpeace UK's Head of Campaigns, Daisy Sands …
The EDF board is meeting tomorrow to reach its 'final investment decision' on Hinkley C. It was meant to be a rubber stamp but now it's anything but, as EDF's share price sinks to a new low, unions and employee directors harden their opposition to the project, and projects in France, Finland and China run way over time and cost with severe technical problems and safety concerns.
… the poor projects elsewhere. As Doug Parr, Greenpeace Chief Scientist, observes: "EDF and … is substantially based on a briefing by Greenpeace UK. There is not a single nuclear …
Following a disgraceful EU stitch-up, the European Parliament today passed a law permitting EU-wide GMO crop cultivation. With regulation and safeguards devolved to member states, and only limited 'opt-out' rights, it is a recipe for chaos that GM corporations will ruthlessly exploit.
… Responding at the time, Marco Contiero, Greenpeace EU agriculture policy director …
The discovery of over 16,000 cracks in two Belgian reactor vessels may have global implications for nuclear safety, says the country's nuclear safety chief. He and independent experts are calling for the immediate checks of nuclear reactor vessels worldwide.
… and expands, breaking up the road" , says Greenpeace Belgium energy campaigner Eloi …
An occupation of EDF's site office for Hinkley C turned into a celebration today as the EDF Board postponed its 'final investment decision' for the tenth time. With strong opposition among French unions and the project afflicted by severe technical and financial problems, it's not just Hinkley that's going down, but the UK's entire nuclear programme.
… programme is mounting in France. On Friday, Greenpeace France took action against the …
New regulations that will allow fracking under national parks, water sources and nature sites won the approval of MPs today in a Commons vote, write Kyla Mandel & Oliver Tickell, even though four Tory MP's rebelled against the party whip. But the new rules won't apply in Wales and Scotland.
… Hannah Martin, Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "What we have seen today is …
Following high-level criticisms of the Hinkley C nuclear plant from HSBC and the Chancellor's father in law, EDF, the company in line to build the power station, is fighting back hard, writes Oliver Tickell. But it could all be too late to rescue the doomed project.
… the law firm Slaughter & May, as uncovered by Greenpeace Energydesk . 'Good news' planted by …