Guardian Poll shows large majority not prepared to pay more for green energy
On Friday 23rd November The Guardian reported the results of a poll conducted to establish the strength of public attitudes to green energy – including that drawn from wind farms.Against a background...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: IPCC Cools on Global Warming
Few subjects are so controversial and arouse such hostility between debaters as global warming and it’s ‘antidote’, renewable energy. The arguments are complex and many books have been written with...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: The unnecessary threat to Grangemouth petrochemical
Threatened closure of INEOS’s Grangemouth petrochemical plant has been averted following a humiliating climb-down by the employees’ UNITE union and government intervention culminating in £134 million...
View ArticleNational media story on Drax environmentally destructive change to wood pellets
The Mail Online today, 16th March, has a story about gigantic Drax power station’s change of power source to burning wood pellets. The focus of the story is the nature and dual environmental impact of...
View ArticleHolyrood debates non-conventional gas extraction as wind fails expensively on...
The Scottish Parliament was today debating the issue of non-conventional gas extraction – largely but not exclusively centred on fracking for shale gas – at a time when the fragility of the wind with...
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