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Government faces exodus of energy advisors over Treasury delay on global warming moves
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
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The Government is facing an exodus of senior energy and climate change advisors amid growing concerns that decisive action to tackle global warming is falling victim to Treasury stubbornness. Today it emerged that Ben Moxham, David Cameron's
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Top energy adviser walks out over 'Treasury meddling'
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
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The essential overhaul of Britain's energy system has been thrown into disarray by the resignation of one of its architects just as Energy Secretary Ed Davey prepares to escalate his drive to stamp out doubts about the existence of climate change...
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The i¿½9million bonus bonanza dished out to green energy bureaucrats
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | 1 month ago
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29 March 2013 Bureaucrats in charge of the Government's controversial green policies have benefited from a multi-million-pound bonus bonanza since the last election. The total amount of performance-related handouts given to civil servants at the
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E.ON lobbied for stiff sentences against Kingsnorth activists, papers show
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images The UK chief executive of energy giant E.ON repeatedly lobbied the then-energy secretary Ed Miliband and others over the sentencing of activists disrupting the company's power plants, warning that any failure to issue "
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Report calls for huge expansion of experimental nuclear plants
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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JET's fusion reactor, where physicists recreate conditions inside the sun, is the sort of experimental nuclear technology that could help the UK cut its emissions, government scientific advisers say. Photograph: Efda-Jet The UK will need to develop a
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UK on track to hit 2020...
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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The UK is on track to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets after low-carbon electricity generation grew more than a quarter in the year to end-June 2012, thanks largely to new solar and offshore wind projects, a government report said...Renewable
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Energy company staff working at climate ministry
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Caroline Lucas wrote to the cabinet secretary in 2011 with a warning about secondments...Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Almost two dozen employees from companies including the energy giants British Gas and npower are working at the
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Fuel bills: Green Deal insulates your home, you pay through what you save
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change says it particularly wants to encourage the take-up of solid wall insulation and 'hard-to-treat' cavity wall insulation. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian If you are fed-up with living in a cold
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Government officials accused of 'schmooze-athon' with Shell
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Environmental campaigners say the papers reveal the privileged access afforded to Shell across Whitehall. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Senior Whitehall officials from 10 government departments and agencies attended exclusive "training courses"
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PM's pledge for 'leaner' civil service goes backwards after hundreds MORE mandarins appear in just three months
Whitehall :: OH :: USA | 10 months ago
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David Cameron promised to slim down Whitehall departments but some have grown in recent months David Cameron's pledge to have a 'leaner' civil service has gone backwards after hundreds more staff were employed across large parts of Whitehall in just
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