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Tag Archives: Prime Minister
Letters to PM warned of the risks of going ahead with Hinkley Point
In March 2012, on the anniversary of Fukushima, I drafted a letter to the Prime Minister that was signed by myself and three other former Directors of Friends of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, European, Finance, In the media, Nuclear
Tagged David Cameron, EDF, energy, EPR, finance, FoE, Friends of the Earth, Fukushima, Hinkley, Hinkley C, Hinkley Point, nuclear, PM, power station, Prime Minister, reactor, risk
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Sky News – Climate change and Obama’s trip to the Arctic
I think giving people a picture of what’s happening now on the planet is really important, and remember what Obama is talking about is what’s happening in Alaska, but it’s also happening in the glaciers in the Himalayas, in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, European, In the media, International, Interviews, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, renewables, Sky News
Tagged Alaska, alternative energy, America, authority, carbon, cities, climate change, contradiction, credibility, emissions, energy, energy efficiency, environmentalists, Europe, fossil fuel, glaciers, global warming, green, green policies, green policy, hypocrisy, ice, leadership, low carbon energy, low-carbon, melt, Obama, Paris 2015, president, Prime Minister, Renewables, sea level rise, Shell, Whaling
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SQUARING THE CIRCLES
This piece was first published by the Energy and Carbon Blog Amber Rudd’s appointment as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate has been welcomed by environmentalists. This is partly out of relief. There was a real risk … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Business, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, DECC, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, International, Politics
Tagged Amber Rudd, bills, budget, carbon emissions, Chancellor, clean energy, Climate Act, climate change, Climate Change Comittee, Coalition, community, cuts, DECC, democracy, electricity, electricity bills, energy, Energy Act, energy bills, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy security, environmentalists, Eric Pickles, farmland, fracking, fuel poverty, gas, Green Deal, homes, impact, infrastructure, insulate, investment, investors, jobs, MP, NHS, onshore wind, Parliament, Prime Minister, public, Renewables, revolution, risk, roof top solar, security, shale gas, solar, subsidies, subsidy, tax, Thatcherite, Tory, Whitehall, wholesale gas price, wind farms
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It can’t be easy being George Monbiot
By Jonathon Porritt 5th December 2013 This article first appeared in Jonathon Porritt’s blog and in The Ecologist The Letter referred to in this article is the one that Jonathon Porritt, Tony Juniper, Charles Secrett and I wrote to David Cameron, highlighting … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaigning, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, European, Nuclear, Politics, The Human Cost
Tagged bills, British taxpayers, Charles Secrett, David Cameron, EDF, electricity, electricity bills, electricity demand, energy crunch, EPR, European Commission, European Pressurised Reactor, fossil fuel, Fukushima, George Monbiot, Hinkley, Hinkley C, Hinkley Point, Jonathon Porritt, nuclear, nuclear industry, nuclear power policy, nuclear reactors, Nuclear Waste, policy failure, power station, Prime Minister, pro-nuclear, reactors, Renewables, risk, Sizewell, The Guardian, thorium reactors, Tom Burke, Tony Juniper
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