WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House oil spill commission said on Monday it found no evidence to support accusations that the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history happened because workers for BP Plc and its partners cut corners to save money, m…
FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As President Obama continues his 10-day Asian tour this week, Frontiers of Freedom President George Landrith issued the following statement today, imploring the president to rethink the “assistance”…
PARIS (Reuters) – France is set to ask for proposals to develop offshore wind farms, boosting the country’s renewable energy output, a government official told Reuters on Monday.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Field trip to find new plant and insect species in the Chaco will endanger remote Indian tribes, anthropologists and indigenous leaders warn• ‘An extremely severe risk’ – letter to the museum• Chaco deforestation puts Paraguayan land under threatAnthropologists and indigenous [...]
The re-wilding project at Ennerdale Valley allows nature to recondition the area, free from human intervention
Police clashed with anti-nuclear protesters trying to halt a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany as protests against the shipment turned increasingly violent
Police clear anti-nuclear protesters from rail tracks allowing ‘Chernobyl on wheels’ to complete controversial trip from FranceA train load of nuclear waste, nicknamed “Chernobyl on wheels,” arrived today at a railway depot in northern Germany after a three-day trip from France marred by repeated clashes between police and protesters trying to halt the delivery.The train [...]
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia (Reuters) – When writer Anton Chekhov arrived on the Russian island of Sakhalin in 1890, he was overwhelmed by the harsh conditions at the Tsarist penal colony. It wasn’t just the floggings, forced prostitution and ill-treatme…
MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens aims to generate sales of more than 40 billion euros ($56 billion) from its green technologies and products by 2014, Europe’s biggest industrial conglomerate said…
The electricity meter was changed last week because the old one had been running backwards. This phenomenon had originally caused consternation on a sunny day in summer when workmen, sent by the electricity suppliers to renew the earthing system, wanted to call the police. Only a consultation with head office persuaded them this was not [...]
The dark days of the last two weeks in the Lake District have been made even more winter-like by downpours. At these times, seeing the area’s waterfalls gives a lift on even the blackest day. This is especially so as autumn tints, screening silvery skeins like Lodore Falls, Stock Ghyll and Aira Force, are now [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday.
Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette boxHighly enriched uranium that could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in [...]
The renewable energy industry is concerned that the government has spent thousands meeting nuclear lobbyistsThousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money have been spent on special meetings between ministers and the nuclear industry in Britain, prompting allegations the government is giving the sector an unfair advantage over renewable energy.The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) [...]
• Wind power capacity to slump from 1,368Mw to 90Mw in 2013• Ministers to announce overhaul of energy market this month Orders for offshore wind turbines in Britain will slump next year, threatening to halt the industry’s recent growth and the expected creation of up to 10,000 “green economy” jobs.Analysts are forecasting a 93% drop [...]