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United Kingdom: Lib Dems to resist Tory plans to cut green taxes
2013-10-27 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Liberal Democrats will resist Conservative plans to to cut green taxes that add to the public's energy bills, Danny Alexander has said. The chief secretary to the Treasury told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show that the taxes, which amount to about 4% of the average bill, are vital to Britain's long-term commitments to funding renewable sources of energy and are a fixed Liberal Democrat policy. His stance has signalled a hardening of the entrenched positions between the two coalition parties over...
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United Kingdom: Green tax goes to wrong homes, says think tank
2013-10-26 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The overwhelming majority of money raised from the Government's flagship "green tax" designed to help poor families cope with their heating bills is going to homes not classed as living in fuel poverty, research by a leading think tank revealed yesterday. Around 80 per cent of the total 540m budget raised from the Energy Company Obligation (Eco), one of the green levies under review by David Cameron, is being targeted at the wrong homes, the IPPR says. As a result, 1.3 million households, more...
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United Kingdom: Russell Brand is a climate hawk as well as a revolutionary
2013-10-26 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe you`ve seen this BBC Newsnight interview making the rounds. If youre anything like me, you probably shrugged it off as another celebrity saying marginally interesting things about politics. If so, you were wrong. Even if you strongly disagree with Russell Brands assertion that we shouldn`t vote, its hard not to be amused by the ease with which he bats around hardened journalist Jeremy Paxman. He makes an articulate case that politics in the U.K. and the U.S. are broken and corrupt, and...
United Kingdom: George Monbiot addresses Dame Helen Ghosh
2013-10-24 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "It's not for me to judge the relative merits of fracking versus wind turbines." So said Dame Helen Ghosh, the National Trust's new director general. To this there are two obvious responses. The first is: yes, as the head of Britain's biggest conservation group, this is just the kind of judgment you should be making. You've been appointed to lead this organisation, and a crucial component of leadership is making judgments. Because it is a public organisation, these judgments should be explained...
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United Kingdom: National Trust: We're still opposed to fracking... for now
2013-10-24 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The National Trust been forced to deny a U-turn on fracking, after its director general said the conservation charity was not necessarily opposed to shale gas exploration on its land. Dame Helen Ghosh told The Times that the Trust was keeping "an open mind" on whether to allow fracking on its land or support planning applications nearby. The former Defra permanent secretary said it would need to wait until studies had determined the full environmental impact of fracking activity before making...
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