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Poland has been starkly criticised for organising an ‘International Coal and Climate Summit’ to run parallel with the COP19 UN climate change conference it is hosting in Warsaw this November. A Warsaw Communiqué issued jointly by Poland’s Ministry of the Economy and the World Coal Association (WCA) last week proposed Read more
‘The lights will go out over Britain’: Shares in energy firms drop 5% amid warnings of blackouts from Miliband’s plan to freeze bills http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2431073/Ed-Milibands-speech-revives-70s-socialism-Fixing-energy-prices-boosting-minimum-wage-.html
WilloWind Energy has announced that it will submit a formal planning application for its proposed Linfairn wind farm in South Ayrshire on September 27. http://www.carricktoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/25-turbine-plan-for-linfairn-windfarm-1-3111218
A bid to build 11 turbines on land north east of St John’s Town of Dalry in southern Scotland has been rejected. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-24270884
A national anti-windfarm campaign group has slammed Fife Council for hatching “secret” plans for huge wind turbines and throwing public money at a “scam which promises a quick buck”. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/campaigners-slam-fife-council-after-catching-wind-of-secret-turbine-plans-1.134768
A promise by Ed Miliband to freeze gas and electricity bills provoked warnings last night of blackouts, job losses and a threat by one leading energy company to leave Britain http://www.thegwpf.org/energy-chaos-britain-faces-blackouts-labour-promises-price-freeze/
”The Triple Challenge Facing the Global Economy” an Address to the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2013/092413.htm
There are at least two things that bother me about Ed Miliband’s Labour party conference speech yesterday. The first is how much territory it needlessly concedes to David Cameron’s worthless coalition. Obviously I’m not remotely agin Britain being run by a Conservative government, so long as it’s a proper Conservative Read more