Britain faces difficult choices about its future energy supplies yet every proposal meets strenuous, sometimes hostile, objections. For The Editors, a programme that sets out to ask challenging questions, I wanted to find out why everyone was so angry about energy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24985531
Interesting news from across the pond: The U.S. government for the first time has enforced environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities, winning a $1 million settlement from a power company that pleaded guilty to killing 14 eagles and 149 other birds at two wind farms in the western Read more
Britain sent a blunt message to developing countries yesterday that it would not give in to their demands for compensation for weather-related disasters, which, many scientists say, climate change has worsened. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3927261.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_11_20
Downing Street says it does not recognise phrase attributed to PM, and says he is not ditching commitment to environment http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/21/no-10-cold-water-david-cameron-green-crap
Fife Council is leading the way in the UK with plans to generate power from rubbish. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/waste-not-want-not-new-fife-energy-plant-is-first-in-the-uk-1.155637
Northumberland County Council is set to commission a tourism impact survey to determine the effect wind farms have on the sector. http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local/all-news/study-on-tourism-impact-is-too-late-for-belford-burn-1-3195646
Western Isles councillors have approved plans for two wind turbines opposed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25024669
A new player in the UK energy market is to be created after npower agreed a deal to offload 770,000 customer accounts. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/energy-bills-npower-deal-creates-big-seven-093633947–finance.html#qlcVXLS