ROB EDWARDS Holyrood ministers are coming under pressure to launch a £1.5 billion scheme to store energy using “liquid air” batteries and other technologies to help meet future power needs. An expert report due out this week by the left-leaning Jimmy Reid Foundation calls for a radical rethink by the Read more
. WE live in a dangerous world. Fracking for deep shale gas deposits is becoming the Great White Hope of these islands. It is in a long line of dubious “solutions” to our energy supply. Now, don’t get me wrong. Shale gas has far more potential than wind, waves, tides, Read more
In September 2012 Germany’s Environment Minister opened a new lignite power plant, arguing the following: “If one builds a new state-of-the-art lignite power plant to replace several older and much less efficient plants, then I feel this should also be acknowledged as a contribution to our climate protection efforts.” http://theenergycollective.com/robertwilson190/328841/why-germanys-nuclear-phase-out-leading-more-coal-burning
UK shale gas viability check will take five years, says Cuadrilla boss The only British firm to have used modern fracking methods estimates assessing potential will need drilling of 20 to 40 wells http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/31/uk-shale-gas-fracking-cuadrilla
A long-running saga over a controversial wind-turbine scheme continues to cause issues in Wooler. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local/all-news/turbine-battle-rumbles-on-1-3285540
OBJECTORS are lining up to express concern about the impact a proposed wind farm would have on Ben Wyvis — with a local laird and a mountaineering body being the latest to voice their opposition. http://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/News/Ben-under-attack-say-objectors-as-protests-pour-in-31012014.htm
One of the partners in the giant London Array windfarm has sold off half its stake in the project to a Canadian pension fund. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/01/dong-sells-25-stake-london-array/
One of biggest stories of this decade is the steady erosion of the global green movement, which has almost entirely been driven by the incoherence of green policy proposals and the serial failure of signature policies. Yet the response of the mainstream green movement to critics who point these facts Read more