Platform website account of deadly Chevron oil rig explosion off the Nigerian coast
Platform website account of Shell’s ongoing human rights abuses in Nigeria, and how to hold them to account.
http://www.rtcc.org/energy/new-report-says-biofuels-will-add-100bn-to-fuel-bills/
The EU Climate Commissioner says EU policy that requires European transport fuel to include 10% sourced from biofuels is out of date, based on now-discredited information. Using biofuels for transport is likely to damage people living in the South, where biofuel crops compete for land with food production, forcing up food prices and depriving people of access to land for farming.
Using biofuels in transport will also increase carbon emissions, not reduce them. The report says that it would be better for people and the environment to spend the money that would have been spent on biofuels, on improving public transport, making cars cleaner and making it easier and safer to cycle.
Calderdale Community Energy is working with people in Sowerby Bridge to develop a potential micro hydro scheme.
Update 26th November 2012
Following the various comments on this story (see comments box, below), I asked Emma Appleton, the Carbon Partnership Officer for Calderdale MBC, if she could clarify the situation further. Emma recently emailed that,
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Co-operative Energy has announced that it is to cut its prices to most of its 16,000 customers by an average of three per cent from February 1st, which will make Co-operative Energy cheaper than all the big six standard tariffs in all 14 regions.
Midcounties Co-operative launched Co-operative Energy in May 2011.
I have just sent an email from Biofuelwatch’s website to the Department for Energy and Climate Change, calling on them to ensure that subsidies for renewable electricity must go towards genuinely renewable and sustainable energy, not destructive biofuels and biomass electricity! To find out more, please go to http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2011/rocs-alerts/
I found this inspiring report on AlterNet, about City of Pittsburgh Councillors voting to adopt an ordinance that bans corporations from natural gas drilling/fracking in the city area.
Pittsburgh Councillor Doug Shields sponsored the ordinance to ban drilling, and was later joined by five co-sponsors.
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