Search results for ‘fossil fuels’
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FactCheck: Are green taxes dragging Britain into fuel poverty?
“There’s no dispute that rapidly-rising fuel bills are hitting households hard. But who is to blame for the squeeze?”
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FactCheck: Huhne far from clear on nuclear
“FactCheck asked DECC whether it is appropriate to put figures taken from two different research papers – carried out using different methodologies and assumptions – and put them side-by-side as though they were directly comparable. We did not receive an answer.”
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FactCheck: Don’t be fooled on fuel bills
“Mr Huhne said the average consumer would be ‘better off’ by the end of the decade…that’s a claim that immediately set alarm bells ringing at FactCheck Towers.
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Landmark energy reforms unveiled
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne presents a white paper urging more than £110 bn to be spent over the next decade to meet the UK’s future energy needs.
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Government stumbles over climate step-change
The Government is warned that it is failing to meet legally-binding carbon emissions targets. Tom Clarke looks at the figures and assesses what they mean.
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Could taxpayers clean up the acts of the banks?
As a charity reveals state-owned RBS loaned money to a manufacturer of banned munitions, could Nick Clegg’s shares-for-all idea prevent this happening again? Channel 4 News investigates.
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New wave of nuclear power sites confirmed
The Department of Energy and Climate Change names eight sites it considers suitable for new nuclear power stations. Channel 4 News maps how the sites could meet Britain’s future energy demands.
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BP protest: ‘Tate should come clean about dirty oil money’
One year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, activists have targeted Tate Britain’s links with BP during a week of worldwide demonstrations.
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Fuelling the Treasury
The devil in the detail of George Osborne’s second Budget: a windfall for the nuclear industry, a cash cow for the Treasury and another turn of the screw for families already feeling the pinch.
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Japan: Nuclear panic is ‘over-reaction’ say scientists
As fear spreads in Japan, radiation expert Professor Gerry Thomas tells Channel 4 News: “We are panicking that poor, savaged population about radiation that is not going to harm them.”
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Will China’s nuclear nerves fuel a boom in green energy?
Surely China’s decision to suspend approvals of new power plants won’t stop the long march to a nuclear future? Don’t be so sure, leading experts tell Channel 4 News.
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Fukushima crisis is ‘serious blow’ to nuclear power
The nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant in Japan could lead to a long overdue re-think on nuclear power, experts tell Channel 4 News, as Germany moves to close all of its pre-1980 nuclear facilities.
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Fukushima: a nuclear station in crisis
In a nation synonymous with the apocalyptic scenes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the radioactive crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant could become a defining moment for the nuclear industry.
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Crisis at Fukushima nuclear plant
Japanese authorities say that the Fukushima reactor is still safe and the radiation leak has been low – but the crisis is far from over as the exclusion zone widens around the nuclear plant.
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Government to stop ‘outrageous’ energy price hikes
The Energy Minister Chris Huhne says he’ll step in if energy providers continue to impose “outrageous” price hikes on customers, and promises Britain’s ‘Green Revolution’ will be a ‘beacon to others.’