Next month is the time for green activists to get together in the glorious Peak District, coordinate future actions on everything from fracking to road-building and climate change ... and of course, share the love, writes Indra donFrancesco, Yes, it's the Earth First! summer gathering, and there's never been stronger reasons to go.
… Earth First! summer gathering - the resurgence Indra … donFrancesco, Yes, it's the Earth First! summer gathering, and there's never been … made up of people who, at the end of each Summer Gathering, volunteer to help put on the …
The land grab by NuGen for its triple reactor Moorside site keeps on growing, writes Martin Forwood. The 'biggest construction project in Europe' is expanding from Nugen's original 200 hectare site to 552 hectares of farmland reaching right up to two villages and an 11th Century church. But with compulsory purchase on the cards, there's nothing locals can do except keep on fighting the entire deeply flawed project.
… from the photograph (above right) of the VC Summer site in South Carolina where just two … being built The de-forested and bulldozed VC Summer construction site some five years after … sprawl receding into the background of the VC Summer site - adding considerably to the …
As the toll of climate change rises, as the summers become hotter, we have the opportunity to link struggles for cooler cities with other progressive demands. From the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
… As the toll of climate change rises, as the summers become hotter, we have the opportunity … the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE Another hot summer. From Shanghai to Karachi , we saw … As the toll of climate change rises, as the summers become hotter, we have the opportunity …
The UK government is punishing renewable energy for its success in generating 25% of the country's electricity, writes Stuart Parkinson. But there's no austerity when it comes to the bloated military-nuclear industrial sector, no matter how egregious its failures or extreme its cost overruns. Our future prosperity is being sacrificed - and its costing taxpayers billions.
… billions. The government has spent the summer announcing cuts to financial support … the buildings energy efficiency industry. The summer saw the end of the Green Deal and zero … and other preparatory costs. During the summer, in contrast to the hundreds of …
Two Councils at the front line of fracking protests - Greater Manchester and West Sussex - have pension funds investing in the major fracking operators - while decisions on planning applications to frack are pending.
… which made the news headlines in the summer at Balcombe. Greater Manchester Pension … to continue its controversial work from last summer with a series of flow tests to assess …
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began to unfold, the searing psychological effects are still being felt among the 160,000 refugees who fled the fallout, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But now there's growing pressure to return to contaminated areas declared 'safe' in efforts to whitewash the disaster's impacts. Why the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in Fukushima City.
… the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. …
Just when the UK's government might want to be boosting its green credentials it has chosen to do the precise opposite, writes Steffen Böhm: giving tax breaks and subsidies to oil and gas, while attacking renewables and energy efficiency. We must unite to oppose these destructive and short-sighted policies
… Unfortunately that's exactly what the summer budget introduced last week by UK … a rollback of green policies. In his summer budget, Osborne promised continued tax …
As nuclear projects using the EPR design run into long delays and huge costs overruns, industry hopes are pinned on the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, writes Chris Goodall. But with eight AP1000 projects around the world going the way of the EPR, is it really a wise choice for the UK's Moorside nuclear site?
… Vogtle', two AP1000s) and South Carolina ('Summer', two AP1000s). I focus here on the … three-year delays have also happened at Summer in South Carolina, where serious cost … these: How many of the problems at Vogtle, Summer and elsewhere are inherent to the …
Within two years, Britain could be facing a series of blackouts and the ignomony of importing the resource it once considered so plentiful from a host of politically unstable countries.
… out. In the space of just 40 days late last summer, many of the planet’s great cities had … by air conditioning systems during last summer’s heat wave. Climatologists described … of heat as a harbinger of future British summers. The Pentagon recently joined them in …
The Apollo Programme proposed this week to make renewable energy cheaper than coal through technological advances is welcome, writes James Dyke. But the real problems are political, not technological. Unless we back the Apollo vision by challenging the power of fossil fuel companies, it can never succeed.
… in Seattle, before heading north in the summer to start developing new fields in the … temperatures in the Arctic and so reduced summer ice, which makes it easier to drill for …
Nuclear energy is a failed technology that's never been safe, affordable or effective at reducing carbon emissions, writes Peer de Rijk. But that won't stop the world's nuclear lobbyists from thronging to COP21 in Paris determined to secure a place for nuclear power among the 'solutions' to climate change. We must make sure they fail.
… water than wind or photovoltaic per kWh. Hot summers or climatic events can disrupt the … or operated at reduced capacity in the hot summer of 2003. Even when shut down, a …
'If you could mine salt from their grief and tears, Slovyansk would be a leader of salt-making.'
… by Nina Murray. The air is so heavy in the summer you can hardly move your feet: your … my own connection to this land. The late-summer wind and the sharp smell of thymes that …
Nuclear power advocates cling like limpets to the idea of 'baseload' power, writes Michael Mariotte. No surprise there - it's the only selling point they've got. It's just too bad the idea is obsolete. Variable renewables combined with stronger grids, energy storage and responsive demand can do a better job for less money. No wonder the shills are getting desperate.
… of low demand. During peak power needs - hot summer days in most of the country - smaller … dominated by a single utility (a la Vogtle or Summer ) will ever again build mega-billion …
The UK Government promises that the Hinkley C 'EPR' nuclear reactor will lower electricity bills, but Keith Barnham shows that this is the very reverse of the truth. Our best hope is that it will never be built. Legal challenges aside, no sane investor will commit until one of the two EPR prototypes is working, which will be in 2016 at the earliest.
… the wind supply variation between winter and summer is larger in the UK than in Germany. In … not in minutes, or even day to night or summer to winter. Are renewable subsidies …
While the fossil fuel industry and Republican states and senators step up legal and political challenges to Obama's Clean Power Plan, protests have also been flooding in to the EPA's ten regional offices from climate activists - demanding that it cut out dirty biofuels and 'carbon trading' loopholes, and protect vulnerable communities from fossil fuel pollution.
… and our country's economy." Introduced last summer, the CPP looks to bring down power …
A legacy of lies and covered-up accidents has left nuclear energy with a serious credibility gap, writes Paul Brown. But poor safety is only the beginning of the industry's problems. With 'new improved' reactor designs all running late and way over budget, any nuclear revival can only be sustained at massive, unaffordable taxpayer cost.
… Economics UK France Japan Finland virgil_c._summer_nuclear_station_unit_1-cut.jpg A legacy …
Government's climate watchdog says 'good progress' being made towards new nuclear but renewable sector needs major investment if UK is to meet emissions targets
… to be published by the Government this summer. In its second annual report to …
As Lancashire councillors prepare to decide the planning application to frack in the county, writes Kyla Mandel, the UK's transparency watchdog has ordered the government to publish in full a report on the impacts of fracking, previously published only in a heavily redacted version.
… redacted fracking report was released last summer after a Freedom of Information request …
Tesla Energy's new mains power battery has just transformed the energy market - giving a huge boost to small scale renewable energy and killing off both fossil fuelled and nuclear power in the process.
… and installation.) Deliveries begin in late Summer." And according to energy analyst Arnie …
The world remembers Chernobyl every April, especially on big anniversaries, but for some people the disaster and its aftermath remain a part of their everyday lives, write David Moon & Anna Olenenko. In this special interview for the 31st anniversary of the catastrophe, one of the last returnees explains what it was like to leave after the disaster, and to come back to an environment transformed in surprising and unwelcome ways.
… on human health and the environment. Last summer we interviewed one of the few …
This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.
… Radiation Health UK high-court-cut.jpg This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who …
A new report about to be released shows methane leaks from active and abandoned wells in British Columbia are more than twice as high as government estimates making them more polluting than commercial transportation, writes ANDREW NIKIFORUK
… The report will be released later in the summer and submitted to the industry-funded …