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One of UK's last coal power stations to close due to rising costs
Closure of Cottam plant in Nottinghamshire likely to lead to more than 150 job cuts
One of the UK’s last seven coal power stations will close this year after half a century of generating electricity, as the polluting fuel continues its rapid decline in the energy mix.
EDF Energy said more than 150 jobs were likely to be cut due to the closure of the Cottam plant in north Nottinghamshire on 30 September.
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Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez unveils bold plan to fight climate change
Blueprint for a carbon-neutral economy has been embraced by prominent Democrats and evokes FDR’s famous legacy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is releasing a broad outline of a vision for the Green New Deal, a plan to battle economic and racial injustice while also fighting climate change.
The new congresswoman’s blueprint, to be made public today, does not set a date for phasing out fossil fuels. But it does aim to develop a carbon-neutral economy in 10 years, which would require huge strides in reducing the US’s reliance on oil and gas and coal. Specifically, the resolution says it is the duty of the federal government to craft a Green New Deal “to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions”. That includes getting all power from “clean, renewable and zero-emission energy sources”.
Continue reading...UK edges closer to coal exit as EDF Energy flags closure of Cottam plant
Fracking firms denied permission to relax earthquake rules
Cuadrilla and Ineos say strict regulations around earthquakes hinder their work
The government has rejected pleas by fracking companies to review strict rules around earthquakes caused by their operations, in a major blow that could spell the end for Britain’s nascent shale industry.
Cuadrilla complained on Wednesday that it had only been able to frack a tiny section of its well near Blackpool last autumn because of the limits, and warned it would not be able to undertake commercial fracking if the regulations are not reviewed.
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Vattenfall’s EU ETS-covered output dips as nuclear ramps up
Brexit could be good for UK environment, says top government adviser
Dieter Helm says withdrawal from common agricultural policy could safeguard natural world
Britain’s withdrawal from the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) provides one of the few bright spots of Brexit, and if replaced with new legislation could help to restore some of the country’s degraded natural environment, one of the government’s leading economic advisers has said.
Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford University, told the Guardian: “If there was any reason to be optimistic about Brexit, it is that it is the end of the CAP. It is hard to think how you could be anything other than better off if you had control of how you spend [the sums currently allocated in farming subsidies].”
Continue reading...From a ramshackle slum farm, young people are feeding Nairobi’s hungry | Naomi Larrson
On a tiny urban smallholding in Kenya, the Huruma Town Youth Group tend goats and chickens and grow vegetables – sharing their bounty with the community’s most vulnerable
In a space of less than an eighth of an acre in Huruma, a small informal settlement in north-east Nairobi, is a tiny farm housing 19 goats and 286 birds – chickens, doves and guineafowl.
Pens and cages have been cobbled together with discarded wood and corrugated iron. Goats hop from a pen curious to see their new visitors, passing day-old chicks who squeak from inside a cage. There’s a goat skin drying out in the sun as a bunch of flies swarm above it.
Continue reading...New “performance” electric motorbike unveiled by Australia’s Fonzarelli
Sydney's very own electric moped maker launches new X1 performance model - and it's literally driving out the door.
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UK worst offender in Europe for electronic waste exports – report
Electronic waste hazardous due to toxic parts was tracked to developing countries
The UK is the worst offender in Europe for illegally exporting toxic electronic waste to developing countries, according to a two-year investigation that tracked shipments from 10 European countries.
The investigation by the environmental watchdog the Basel Action Network (BAN) put GPS trackers on 314 units of computers, LCD monitors and printers placed in recycling facilities in 10 countries. Researchers mapped what they said was the export of 11 items to Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Ukraine.
Continue reading...Canberra should lead Australia on EV adoption: It wouldn’t cost much
Estimates suggest it would cost just $5m for the federal government to begin shifting half its car fleet to electric vehicles by 2025.
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Solar Insiders Podcast: Sales in the gutter
It has been a great year for solar, but as we reveal today, there are still some disturbing sales practices taking place. Customers be warned.
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AEMC flags plan to lower costs, improve efficiency of demand response
Energy consumer advocates note "welcome changes" in draft determination proposing “enhancements” to emergency demand response mechanism.
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Renewable hydrogen power plant step closer in Port Lincoln
A green hydrogen power plant facility in South Australia is a step closer to completion with announcement of a generator supplier.
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AGL says it’s getting serious about storage, both batteries and pumped hydro
AGL unveils new pumped hydro proposal for NSW, and flags a new battery storage plan for households as it prepares for energy transition.
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AGL has a plan: Milk coal assets while preparing for energy transition
AGL has a plan, and it should not come as a surprise to anyone: Milk its huge coal assets for everything they are worth, while preparing for the tricky part of preparing for the energy transition.
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Met Office: World has 10% chance of ‘overshooting’ 1.5°C within five years
Met Office expects average global surface temperature from 2019-23 to reach between 1.03 and 1.57°C above pre-industrial levels, making the period from 2014-23 the hottest decade since records began.
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