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United Kingdom: Coastal retreat plan to curb floods
2013-11-04 03:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A scheme to combat flooding by surrendering land to the sea will be completed on Monday on the south coast. The 28m "managed realignment" at Medmerry in West Sussex has seen the building of 7km (four miles) of new sea walls up to 2km inland. By letting the waters in, the Environment Agency says the risk of flooding for hundreds of homes will be reduced. The surrendered land will become a wetland habitat for many species. The sea has long been a threatening presence on the flat land of...
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United Kingdom: David Cameron's green agenda is 'spurious,' says Sir Jonathon Porritt
2013-11-02 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Sir Jonathon Porritt, the former Green Party chairman, has launched a ferocious attack on the Government, branding its environmental record "disappointing and depressing". Sir Jonathon is scathing about David Cameron, Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, and the Liberal Democrats. But he reserves his strongest criticism for George Osborne, the Chancellor. "The only words I can use to express my feelings about this government are that I have a deep sense of disappointment and depression. The...
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United Kingdom: Brent council seeks to ban fracking
2013-11-01 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A local council is seeking to ban fracking in its area in what it claims is the first such move by a local authority in the UK against the controversial gas extraction procedure. Brent, in north London, said it was seeking to use any legal avenues available to prevent energy firms from being able to drill within its boundaries. The Government firmly backs action to exploit what are believed to be large reserves of shale gas in rocks beneath the UK, which it claims could help bring down energy...
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United Kingdom: Decarbonisation target narrowly defeated in House of Lords vote
2013-10-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government avoided a House of Lords rebellion last night as peers voted by 216 to 202 to defeat an amendment to the Energy Bill that would have required it to introduce a decarbonisation target for the power sector next year. Green businesses and campaigners had hoped that the amendment, put forward by cross-bench peers Lord Stern and Lord Oxburgh and Labour shadow climate minister Baroness Worthington, could pass with a relatively small rebellion from the government benches. But despite...
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Saudi Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding signals Twitter interest
2013-10-29 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Company previously invested $300 million in microblogging site.
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