A new survey in the UK makes interesting reading. More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change. The survey also reveals that two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to … Read More
Month: May 2008
World Bank’s “Slightly Cleaner Technology Fund”
At a briefing today on the Stategic Framework on Climate Change and Development, a World Bank official conceded that the proposed “Clean Technology Fund” might better be called the “Slightly Cleaner Technology Fund,” but said she would not go so far as to call it the “Dirty Technology Fund.” Addressing Members of the UN Permanent … Read More
Dead Ducks Spoil Ron’s Day
Pity poor Ron Stevens, Alberta’s deputy premier, who is in Washington to spin the oil sands story and tell Congress that the province represents an “environmentally responsible source of energy supply to the United States”. The timing could not have been worse for Ron but the dirty and polluting legacy of oil sands was once … Read More
Nuclear’s CO2 Cost “Will Climb”
It’s the myth on which the ongoing nuclear renaissance is built: that nuclear power is one of the solutions to climate change. But now the case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics. It suggests greenhouse emissions from the … Read More
Shell Dumps Renewable Key Stake
Anything BP can do, Shell can do too. Analysts believe that BP has dumped its so-called green credential and gone back to the basics of drilling oil. Now Shell seems to be doing the same too. Shell has pulled out of the world’s largest offshore wind farm off Britain, whilst indicating it would prefer to … Read More