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United Kingdom: Windy winter delivers power record for world's largest offshore wind farm
2014-04-08 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: High winds and stormy weather over the winter months helped the London Array, located off the Kent coast, power around 325,000 homes, according to new figures released by the wind farm operators. London Array, a consortium between E.ON, Dong Energy and Masdar, yesterday confirmed that in the six months to the end of March 2014, the turbines produced 1.5TWh of electricity. In total, the 175 turbines recorded an availability of just over 96 per cent, and coupled with the "near perfect" wind conditions...
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United Kingdom: Diesel, not just dust, has helped create this smog
2014-04-03 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: No one doubts that the Saharan dust in the smog affecting parts of the UK is to blame for the layer of grime now sitting on cars but experts agree that the more dangerous element for people's health is the increasingly noxious pollution belching out of our vehicles and industrial plants. Air pollution from vehicles, factories and homes is now so bad, regularly, in Britain that when it is exacerbated by a storm in the Sahara 2,500 miles away, or by high pressure over northern Europe, it can leave...
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United Kingdom: Air pollution: What they are not telling us about smog
2014-04-03 07:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Suddenly we are all hearing about air pollution. More than three and a half million especially vulnerable people, with heart and lung conditions, were advised to "avoid strenuous activity' yesterday as levels of tiny but dangerous particles in the air reached the maximum level on the Government's official scale. Even relatively healthy people were advised to "reduce physical exertion'. Scores of flights were cancelled because of smog, and red dust -- swept up from the Sahara and carried by the...
United Kingdom: Saharan dust & pollution: confusion over health risk from smog cloud
2014-04-02 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Healthy schoolchildren were being kept indoors on Wednesday as government experts' conflicting messages about the dangers of smog led to widespread confusion. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs warned of "very high' levels of pollution due to a mixture of dust from the Sahara and industrial emissions from Europe arriving on a south-easterly breeze. But its own advisers at Public Health England admitted that the "vast majority of people' would feel no effects and independent...
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United Kingdom: Green bank makes biggest investment in wind farms
2014-03-31 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scotsman: THE Green Investment Bank yesterday unveiled its biggest pay-out since its launch with the 461 million backing for two offshore wind projects. The investments represent a vote of confidence in a sector that has suffered a few setbacks with projects cancelled and energy company SSE reducing its commitment to renewables. State-backed GIB, based in Edinburgh and London, is investing 241m alongside Japans Marubeni Corporation in the Westermost Rough wind farm off the coast of East Yorkshire....
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