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Water firms wait until rain stops to release sewage maps
2024-04-30 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesSix companies who missed a deadline to produce real-time maps of spills have quietly released them now dry weather has returned
Energy prices may rise as Treasury ‘stifles’ offshore wind
2024-03-25 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesInsufficient budget for farms will increase UK’s reliance on foreign gas in ‘backwards step’, analysis suggests
Tagged under: Wind Power
Ocean temperatures reach their hottest in modern history
2024-03-07 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesClimate scientists fear further warming to come, putting fish, dolphins and coral reefs in danger
Tagged under: Fish | Extreme Heat | Sealife | Oceans
Cardiff farmers’ protest: 10,000 descend on Welsh parliament
2024-02-28 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesPoliticians told ‘this is just the beginning’ as tractors gather in demonstration against farming reforms
Tagged under: Activism
Celebrities urge satellite firm to ‘stop enabling harmful fishing’
2024-01-29 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesChris Packham and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall join campaign as Iridium accused over collapse of yellowfin tuna in industrial-scale harvest from Indian Ocean
Tagged under: Fishing | Collapse | India | Fish | Oceans
Growing mountain of wasted money is a radioactive prospect
2024-01-25 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesRishi Sunak’s apparent determination to press ahead with mammoth investment in new nuclear reactors, whatever the cost, might not prove to be the best solution
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Rishi Sunak
Sellafield staff ‘used home computers to beat security failings’
2023-12-11 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesCybersecurity fears grow amid claims Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site was targeted by hackers linked to Russia and China
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Russia
Theresa May criticises UK plan to ‘max out’ North Sea gas
2023-11-28 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesNew licences contradict pledge to phase out fossil fuels, says former prime minister
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels
Panama protesters shot dead by driver after blocking road
2023-11-08 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesTwo environmental protesters blocking a road in Panama were killed after a driver trying to get past the demonstration left his car and shot them dead.Photographs and video showed the alleged attacker, an older man with greying hair and glasses, approaching people protesting against a controversial
Tagged under: Activism
HS2: The secret files that expose a multibillion-pound cover-up
2023-10-25 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe company in charge of constructing the HS2 railway has been accused of deliberately covering up its escalating costs to ensure politicians would keep spending billions of pounds of public money on the project. Whistleblowers from HS2 Ltd have described how senior managers instructed staff to keep
Tagged under: Trains
HS2: The secret files that expose a multibillion-pound cover-up
2023-10-21 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe company in charge of constructing the HS2 railway has been accused of deliberately covering up its escalating costs to ensure politicians would keep spending billions of pounds of public money on the project. Whistleblowers from HS2 Ltd have described how senior managers instructed staff to keep
Tagged under: Trains
Sale of HS2 land to lose £100m of taxpayers’ money
2023-10-20 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesA “fire sale” of land bought for HS2 north of Birmingham is set to cost the taxpayer more than £100 million, analysis has revealed.The government is poised to
Climate activist to be prosecuted for contempt over court protest
2023-09-19 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesA 68-year-old climate campaigner faces up to two years in jail after she staged a protest outside a court that allegedly encouraged jurors to break their oaths.One of the government’s law officers has confirmed that he will bring contempt of court proceedings against Trudi Warner after a judge refer
Tagged under: Activism
Voters will embrace green tech if it feels fair
2023-09-06 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesEveryone who knows Claire Coutinho, the new energy secretary, will acknowledge that she is a promising and refreshing arrival at the cabinet table. Her talents
Michael Gove’s U-turn on water is a weaselly move
2023-09-02 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesEarly this year The Times dedicated itself to a Clean It Up campaign to restore Britain’s rivers and waterways to ecological health. How are ministers doing in
Wild swimmers buy nose clips and snorkels to keep out sewage
2023-08-21 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesWild swimmers are investing in snorkels, nose clips and ear protection sprays to guard against sickness caused by sewage in seas and rivers.Water companies hav
Tagged under: Rivers
Mediterranean heatwave to add billions to cost of Britain’s food
2023-08-15 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesHeatwaves in southern Europe risk adding tens of billions of pounds to future grocery bills for people in Britain, researchers have warned. According to an
Tagged under: Heatwaves
Water firm pours cash on overseas investors
2023-08-14 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesOne of Britain’s biggest water companies has showered overseas investors with more than £150 million in dividends despite the outcry over the dumping of sewage
Water firms urged to save money by diluting climate change plans
2023-08-10 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe government has privately asked water companies to explore saving money on future water supplies by assuming unrealistically low levels of climate change. Wa
Tagged under: Climate Change
We must talk more about costs in any debate about the environment
2023-08-07 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesAs Oscar Wilde wrote, a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. We all instinctively get the sort of character described her
Tagged under: Economics
South West Water owner pays dividend despite pre-tax loss and fine
2023-06-02 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe Pennon group, the owner of South West Water, which operates in one of only two regions in the country in drought, has raised its shareholder dividend despite reporting a loss and being fined for illegally dumping sewage.
Tagged under: Drought
Should lawyers work on fossil fuel projects?
2023-05-26 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesLaw firms have tried to become greener, but many have found themselves attacked over their work for companies whose activities contribute to climate change. Recent research by Law Students for Climate
Tagged under: Climate Change
Solar farms face 20-year waits for a connection to the grid
2023-05-26 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesSolar farm developers have been told that they will have to wait until as late as the 2040s to connect to local electricity grids, delaying £20 billion of energ
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Electricity | Electricity Grid
Wind turbines are UK’s biggest electricity source for first time
2023-05-11 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesWind farms were the biggest source of electricity in Britain for the first time in the first three months of this year, after hundreds of new turbines started s
Tagged under: Wind Power | Electricity
Britain joins wind power plan for turbine islands in North Sea
2023-04-24 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesBritain and other European countries will launch a wind-power revolution today with a pledged tenfold increase in electricity generation by 2050 from massive
Tagged under: Wind Power | Electricity
Electric car costs and repairs take the spark out of green driving
2023-04-23 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe cost of insuring electric cars has jumped by 20 per cent over the past year as Teslas and other models are scrapped when their battery packs have the slight
Tagged under: Insurance | Electric Cars | Cars | Tesla
Feargal Sharkey: Desperate revival of failed policies doesn’t add up
2023-04-05 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesWhat we need is a government with the vision and leadership to stand up to the water industry and hold them properly to account. What we have, as we have seen t
Tide of troubles keeps on rising for water monopolies
2023-03-30 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe water industry’s to-do list is as daunting as it is long: fix lingering leaks; stem foul flooding from overflowing sewers; address poor customer service;
Can statisticians move beyond GDP?
2023-03-16 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesEvery month, and to much fanfare, the Office for National Statistics publishes its latest estimates of gross domestic product. GDP is rightly regarded as the mo
Tagged under: GDP | Economic Growth
Rising costs ‘could block’ Hornsea Three
2023-03-03 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesAn £8 billion project to build the world’s biggest offshore wind farm in British waters will be shelved within months unless the government offers tax breaks to offset soaring costs, its developer has warned.Orsted, the Danish renewable energy company, said that sharp rises in construction and finan
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Wind Power
Customers boycotting Southern Water bills over sewage spills claim win
2023-02-17 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesSouthern Water customers refusing to pay their wastewater bills in protest at the firm’s sewage spills have celebrated the retreat of debt collection agenci
Tagged under: Finance | Activism
Disaster in the sea and a warning of more
2023-01-11 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesSixteen months ago there was a mass die-off of marine life in the North Sea off Teesside. It was an extinction event: a catastrophe on a scale no one in Britai
Tagged under: Extinction
China unveils ultra-deepwater drillship
2022-12-23 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesChina has unveiled a new generation of ultra-deep water drilling ships that put natural resources at the bottom of the world’s deepest oceans within Beijing’s
Fish farms scrutinised as antibiotic use soars
2022-12-04 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesDependence on antibiotics in aqua- culture has surged despite widespread efforts to reduce the use of drugs by intensive farmers.Salmon farms in Scotland deploy
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Met Office forecasts a Britain of militia war, bartering and child labour
2022-01-20 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesIt is 2070 and Britain as we once knew it has vanished. The government has collapsed, the police and justice system no longer exists. Militias control feudal mi
Tagged under: Collapse | Children
Kwasi Kwarteng courted oil bosses after Cop26 | Business | The Times
2022-01-04 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe energy secretary met oil industry bosses for a private dinner days after the Cop26 climate summit to encourage them to keep drilling in the North Sea.Kw
Tagged under: COP26
Fossil fuel companies ‘misleading’ Boris Johnson on green hydrogen
2020-09-26 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesBoris Johnson is being misled by Britain’s multibillion-pound fossil fuel lobby into backing climate change policies that risk unnecessarily pushing up energy b
Tagged under: Hydrogen | Climate Change
Oliver Shah: Flighty investors won’t solve climate change | Business | The Sunday Times
2019-11-18 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesLast month, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced it would sever ties with BP, its sponsor of eight years, due to discomfort over the oil major’s role in climate change. National Galleries Scotland followed suit, citing its “responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency”.These i
Tagged under: BP | Climate Change
Venice ‘disaster’ after worst floods for 50 years | World | The Times
2019-11-14 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesThe mayor of Venice declared a state of emergency last night as St Mark’s Square was deluged and gondolas were torn from their moorings during the worst flooding in the city for more than 50 years.Sirens sounded as floodwaters in the Venice lagoon rose 187cm above normal amid high winds. It was clos
Tagged under: Italy | Flooding
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