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UK business leaders said the energy crunch meant spot prices for electricity were likely to go even higher. The British Chambers of Commerce said that unless ministers took some “long term” decisions British manufacturers might be forced to relocate overseas. http://www.thegwpf.org/man-made-energy-crisis-manufacturers-forced-relocate-obroad/
In a Britain weary from years of rising costs and static incomes a promise of relief for household finances was bound to be greeted with cheers. Conservatives did not seem to know how to react. First, they condemned Miliband’s interference in energy markets as “Seventies-style socialism”; then, when they could Read more
A controversial means of extracting shale gas from the ground is unlikely to take place in Fife in the near future. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/fracking-no-longer-on-the-agenda-in-fife-1.138763
Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24429621
IT is easy to laugh at America’s political system, which is once again showing itself to be hopelessly defective as it trundles along towards a possible default http://www.cityam.com/article/1381192874/our-energy-crisis-america-s-debt-idiocy-self-inflicted?utm_source=website&utm_medium=TD_EditorsLetter_Homepage&utm_campaign=TD_EditorsLetter_Homepage
The Liberal Democrats have dismissed a Conservative threat to cut renewable energy subsidies in order to reduce consumer bills as a “total red herring” while energy companies have warned that a political row over green policies will itself lead to higher prices. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/07/lib-dems-tory-renewable-energy-subsidies
LADY Clark’s ruling at the Court of Session has rendered the planning consent for Viking Energy’s planned giant wind farm in the Shetland Islands null and void (“Shetland wind farm court verdict appeal”, The Herald, October 3). Sustainable Shetland (SuS), the petitioner, has made legal history, as Lady Clark’s judgement Read more
A PROPOSED wind farm which attracted complaints from the hosts of next year’s Ryder Cup has been blocked. Bosses at Gleneagles Hotel, which will be the venue for the golf tournament, strongly objected to plans for turbines to be erected near to their courses. They claimed it could damage the Read more