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Clean Power Collateral Damage: Of Birds, Tortoises And The Transition From Fossil Fuels
2013-03-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Is kickstarting a clean-energy industry and accelerating a movement away from fossil fuels worth the expense of, say, a few desert tortoises or a collection of piping plovers? If so, how many of these threatened species would you be willing to sacrifice to build a commercial wind farm, or a utility-scale solar array? It's a stark and oversimplified way to frame things, of course, but the exercise helps to highlight the reality that renewable energy has environmental impacts, too. It's a point...
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United Kingdom: EU referendum: Climate efforts could be 'collateral damage', warn MEPs
2013-01-24 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurActiv: Fears are growing in Brussels that climate policy could become a political football in any referendum on EU membership, following British Prime Minister David Cameron's declaration of intent on Wednesday to hold an in/out poll. The UK Independent Party (UKIP), which has links to the eurosceptic right of Cameron's Conservatives, launched a petition on 21 January calling for the EU's climate and energy targets to be suspended. The petition's professed objectives -- to prevent carbon leakage,...
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