The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an increasingly unstable Ukraine, is planning a European 'supergrid' linking all 28 member states to increase resilience, writes Paul Brown. The development will be a boon to renewable energy generation, and cut emissions from fossil fuels.
Supergrid will build EU resilience and boost renewables Paul Brown | 9th September 2014 News Energy EU Renewables power-lines-cut.jpg The EU, nervous about disruption to gas supplies across an …
New regulations on animal slaughter are in force across Russia, writes Georgy Borodyansky, with devastating effects on small farmers and consumers, who face a three-fold hike in the price of meat. Will the 'health and safety' madness destroy Russia's main producers of wholesome food?
Russia's small farmers are the latest 'health and safety' victims Georgy Borodyansky | 5th August 2014 News Russia Food Farming Regulation EU Law russia-cattle-vmenkov.jpg Cattle in a paddock on a …
The nuclear industry faces an uncertain future as the reactor building boom is struck by unexpected costs, serious technical problems, and long, expensive delays, writes Paul Brown. Meanwhile renewables like wind and solar are offering investors an enviable combination of falling cost, low risk, fast build times, predictable returns and minimal long term liabilities.
Time and money run out for nuclear revival Paul Brown | 17th January 2017 News Nuclear Energy Renewables Finance olkiluoto-cut.jpg The nuclear industry faces an uncertain future as the reactor …
Russia’s oil Goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their rush to extract the black gold that lies beneath. But as Georgy Borodyansky reports, a family of reindeer herders has taken them on.
Siberia - a Small People challenges Big Oil Georgy Borodyansky | 14th June 2014 News Oil Russia Indigenous Peoples fires-oil-ramil-sitdikov.jpg Russia’s oil Goliaths have been devastating vast areas …
As worldwide stocks of plutonium increase, lightly-armed British ships are about to carry an initial 330kg of the nuclear bomb metal for 'safekeeping' in the US, writes Paul Brown. But it's only the tip of a global 'plutonium mountain' of hundreds of tonnes nuclear power's most hazardous waste product.
Too much of a bad thing? World awash with waste plutonium Paul Brown | 24th January 2016 News Nuclear WMD US UK Japan Korea Transport Oceans pacific-egret-cut.jpg As worldwide stocks of plutonium …