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United Kingdom: Oil well safety warning for fracking
2014-03-25 03:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Plans to expand shale gas "fracking" in the UK must learn from leaks and poor monitoring at existing onshore oil and gas sites, scientists say. A review of 2,152 wells drilled from 1902-2013 found up to 100 "orphaned" wells for which no firm is responsible. Only two cases of well "failure" were recorded, but legacy sites are not monitored for leaks, the authors note. The study led by ReFINE (Researching Fracking in Europe) is published in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology. It is...
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United Kingdom: Governments fracking focus threatens renewables investment, experts say
2014-03-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: By promoting shale gas development, the UK could see itself start to lag behind on low-carbon technology, putting investment and innovation at risk, according to analysis from the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). While CIWEM recognises that fracking can help the UK improve its energy security and eventually reduce energy costs in the short-term, it warns that focusing on shale gas might have long-term negative effects. The announcement comes as energy minister...
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United Kingdom: Rain could increase river pollution
2014-03-24 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Wetter winters in the future could increase agricultural pollution in Britain's rivers, say scientists. A research team from Lancaster University concluded that increased, more intensive winter rainfall is likely to wash more fertiliser out of soil and into rivers. This could artificially nourish plants, including toxic algae. The research team is now embarking on a project to help predict and ultimately mitigate agricultural pollution. Its study aims to work out how the changing climate and...
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United Kingdom: Osborne is fiddling while the Earth burns: extracting every drop of oil we can
2014-03-20 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The chancellor George Osborne is a dangerous man. A disciple of financial service deregulating and climate change denying ex-chancellor Lord Lawson, he delivered a budget statement on Wednesday as depressing as the Conservative Environment Networks recent Responsibility & Resilience pamphlet was encouraging. As we repeatedly explain, we hold no torch for a particular party, despite what our magazines name suggests. No, we are not the green wing of the blue Conservative party. The preservation...
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United Kingdom: Budget 2014: investors say shelving low-carbon policies would be reckless
2014-03-18 09:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The trade body for the sustainable investment industry has called on George Osborne to deliver a budget statement on Wednesday that supports long-term investment and keeps in place economic measures to boost the low-carbon economy. The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) said the chancellor must avoid bowing to pressure from groups that were calling for social and environmental policies to be shelved. It described such demands as short-termist, shortsighted and reckless....
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