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DECC: UK’s oil and gas output down in 2012
New annual statistics offered by the Department of Energy and Climate Change revealed that UK’s oil and gas output dropped by 10.3% in 2012 to 122.9 million tons of oil equivalent.
read more... 29/04/2013
UK: Shale gas could improve energy security but could not reduce energy bills
The UK has decided along with other countries, to follow the example of the United States on what concerns the shale gas production. MPs has criticized the government for delaying development of shale gas instead of encouraging companies to come up with more precise estimates of recoverable reserves.
read more... 26/04/2013
The UK's emissions are actually increased by around a fifth
According to the Committee on Climate Change, carbon emissions have dropped about 20% in the last 20 years, limiting this way the growth in the UK’s carbon footprint. So formally, UK carbon emissions have been falling for last years, but increased imports of goods from overseas, which create emissions during their manufacture in other countries, are pushing up the overall total of greenhouse gases, so the UK's emissions have actually increased by more than a fifth.
read more... 26/04/2013
Carbon Connect: UK has to close coal fired stations to achieve carbon targets
UK should give up its coal-fired power stations if it wants to achieve its carbon emissions targets by 2020, recommended a report released by the think tank Carbon Connect.
read more... 24/04/2013
EDF may erase hopes of new nuclear power plants in UK
The U.K. government is seeking to restore nuclear energy as part of a program to limit its carbon emissions and has been in talks with French state-controlled EDF, the world's largest nuclear operator, to build as many as four new reactors.
read more... 19/04/2013