December 16, 2013

You can access the research project, together with a model planning condition and various summaries at http://www.renewableuk.com/en/publications/index.cfm.

Scotland can’t afford to be left behind in the fracking revolution, Mid-Scotland and Fife MSP Murdo Fraser says. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/msp-says-scotland-must-move-now-over-shale-gas-1.165867

As the Anthropogenic Global Warming boondoggle continues to collapse, the Greens and others complicit in the warming alarmist industry are busily looking for reasons for their failure to convince people of the validity of their message. http://toryaardvark.com/2013/12/16/green-ngo-public-bored-and-disinterested-by-climate-change-fear-stories/#more-23984

GERMANY: Germany’s wind policy has been handed over to the federal economy ministry, following a vote by the Social Democrat Party on setting up a new coalition government with the conservative CDU/CSU parties. http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1224924/social-democrats-german-wind-policy

The 2013 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has argued that humans are the ‘dominant cause’ of global warming since the 1950s, and that without ‘substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions’, further warming and changes in all aspects of the climate system can be Read more…

Owen Paterson plots fightback against European Commission over dinner in Brussels to win support for Britain’s fracking industry on eve of new shale gas drilling round http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10518120/New-EU-fracking-law-plan-threatens-Britains-shale-gas-boom.html

Morgan Stanley report predicts that gas exports will help country eliminate its current account deficit for the first time in four decades http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10519371/Australia-to-be-an-energy-superpower-by-mid-2017.html

Bloomberg New Energy Finance warns combination of policy and construction risks could deter investors http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2319128/fresh-questions-raised-over-uk-offshore-wind-plans