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Doubts over wave power scheme
- 31st July 2011
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Plans for one of the world’s largest wave energy schemes are in doubt, due to financial problems at one of the firms involved. The Siadar project in Scotland, off the west coast of Lewis, was a joint venture between RWE Npower Renewables and Inverness-based Wavegen. But RWE had confirmed it was no longer proceeding with …
Ships to provide cheap, clean wave power?
- 18th July 2011
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A new dimension in the production of energy from wave power could revolutionise the way we are able to harvest and use electricity produced by the oceans, a conference in Boston has heard. Ships that harvest wave energy and store it in batteries could one day generate cheaper electricity than today’s wave power devices. The …
Cooking oil used to fuel planes
- 29th June 2011
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In an attempt to cuts costs and emissions, Dutch airline KLM has said it intends to use a biofuel made from recycled cooking oil to power more than 200 of their flights between Amsterdam and Paris from this September. The fuel, biokerosene, is made using recycled frying oil and has been shown in both lab …
Environmentalists fear increased Amazon deforestation
- 2nd June 2011
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Brazil’s lower house has passed legislation that would loosen restrictions on how small farmers use their land in the Amazon forest, but lawmakers dropped a change that most worried environmentalists. Environmentalists still fear the revision bill would bring increased deforestation. Operators of small-scale farms and ranches defend the measure as a way to let them …
Food prices set to double for poorest
- 31st May 2011
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Leading charity Oxfam has warned that prices for staple foods are set to double in the next 20 years unless action is taken by world leaders to reform the global food system. Oxfam says that the average cost of the most important crops for the developing world will increase by between 120 and 180 per …
Government sets carbon reduction target
- 19th May 2011
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The UK government has committed to halving carbon emissions by 2025 from 1990 levels, and therefore changing the way the country produces energy. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne outlined the latest ‘carbon budget’ for the UK in Parliament but was accused by the Labour opposition of a ‘go-slow’ on green progress. The plans to cut carbon …
