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April 5, 2014

IPCC Science At Work: U.S. Administration Seeks Changes To ‘Skewed’ Data In UN Climate Draft/GWPF

U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration is concerned that a crucial United Nations report on climate science may be too harsh in assessing the cost of fighting global warming. Such a finding may lower the incentive for the world to reduce fossil fuel pollution and feed the arguments of those skeptical Read more

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

How farting kangaroos might save the world/The Telegraph

Flatulent cattle, we know, make global warming worse. Their belching and farting– and that of sheep and other ruminants – produces up to a quarter of the world’s emissions of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But now another animal Read more

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

Conservatives to promise ban on new onshore windfarms/The Guardian

The Conservative party is planning to pledge in its manifesto for next year’s general election that it will introduce a moratorium on future onshore windfarms from 2020 on the grounds that they have now become “self-defeating”. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/04/conservatives-promise-ban-new-onshore-windfarms

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

Wind farms: The power behind the political throne/The Telegraph

Not so long ago, energy policy was a quiet, frankly boring, backwater in the Whitehall jungle, neglected despite its importance. Now, perhaps appropriately, it generates some of the most heated exchanges of all. And so it was again this week when a row over wind power blew apart the Coalition Read more

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

Wind turbines scrutinised/Helensburgh Advertiser

A GROUP has been set up to evaluate any planning applications for wind turbines in Helensburgh and Lomond. http://www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk/news/helensburghandlomond/articles/2014/04/04/493926-wind-turbines-scrutinised/

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

Windfarm sub-station bid for Cockenzie Power Station coal store site/East Lothian Courier

THE preferred location for a new electrical sub-station, which would connect to an offshore windfarm east of the Firth of Tay, has been named as land next to Cockenzie Power Station’s coal handling plant http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/roundup/articles/2014/04/04/493885-windfarm-substation-bid-for-cockenzie-power-station-coal-store-site/

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014

Offshore windfarm plans going under spotlight – Press and Journal

By Christopher Rae The public are to be given the chance to view plans for a groundbreaking new clean energy project off the north-east coastline next month. Norwegian energy giant Statoil will give locals the chance to look over plans for its Buchan Deep scheme, 12 miles off the coast Read more

By SAS Volunteer, 12 years ago April 5, 2014
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