Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband to deliver nuclear site assessment reports

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Government to open new central authority in March to fast-track nuclear applications and avoid red tape The government will tomorrow identify further sites around Britain that could be suitable for building a nuclear plant, as part of a scheme to fast track a new generation of reactors. Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary, will unveil a series of national policy statements setting...

New nuclear power stations to be announced by Ed Miliband

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

A new generation of nuclear power stations will be up and running within a decade Ed Miliband the Energy Secretary will announce.

• £18 billion nuclear waste storage facility to be built underground - Times Online
• England will keep the lights on with nuclear energy - Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes

Ain't That Global Warming A Bitch? (3)

Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | yesterday

The list is getting longer. Chicago , then Beijing ... now Switzerland . Alpine ski resorts have welcomed a first blanket of snow, allowing some to open early and raising hopes of a bumper season despite the economic downturn. In Verbier, Switzerland, where one in five tourists is British, more than a mile of ski runs opens today for weekend skiing. It is the earliest start to the winter season for...

• More 'underlying warming trend' tomfoolery - Mark Wadsworth

There will of course be those screaming blue murder

Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will give the go-ahead for a new generation of power stations and explain how new planning guidelines will speed up the time it takes for them to come into operation. Those doing the screaming will of course be exactly the same people [...]

Nuclear strategy threatens Kalahari

The Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday

Namibian environmentalists warn expansion of uranium mining could devastate spectacular natural landscape The hidden cost of Britain's new generation of nuclear power could be the destruction of the Kalahari desert in Namibia and millions of tonnes of extra greenhouse gas emissions a year, the Observer has discovered.= The desert, with its towering sand dunes and spectacular lunar-like landscapes,...

Greenfield sites targeted for new wave of nuclear power plants

Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

NUCLEAR power stations could be built on new greenfield plots as well as those sites shortlisted by ministers, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, will announce tomorrow.

[khabor.com] Bangladesh must be saved, UK Parliament told

Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Bangladesh must be saved, UK Parliament told "> Bangladesh must be saved, UK Parliament told Bangladesh must be saved, UK Parliament told "> Bangladesh must be saved, UK Parliament told "> By Syed Nahas Pasha London, Nov 7 (bdnews24.com)—A senior British politician Frank Dobson MP told UK's Parliament this week that worldwide action is needed to rein in climate change...

My Twitter discussion with Ed Miliband

Realstreet (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

I follow Ed Miliband on Twitter. He is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He Twittered, pls #dontgiveup on a deal in Copenhagen.100pct determined to get ambitious,fair, effective deal…. see edspledge.com for more So I did. I tweeted back to him, Are you absolutely sure that your facts about ‘climate change’ are correct before promising away billions [...]

Where are our leaders letting us down?

Cut Global Warming (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Earlier this week more than 20 Greenpeace volunteers climbed the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to tell governments meeting here ahead of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen to "save the climate". Yesterday Ed Miliband added his voice to the chorus coming from many EU and US officials saying that he’s concluded that there won’t be a [...]

• Where are our leaders letting us down? - Greenpeace UK blog

Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Ahead of Copenhagen summit, former US vice-president says 'non-violent lawbreaking' is legitimate in persuading governments to cut emissions Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming. Amid increasing...

Ed Miliband to accelerate plans for new nuclear plants

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Britain will face a serious energy crisis unless plans to build new nuclear power plants are speeded through without having obstacles placed in their way the Government will warn next week.

All's fair in the climate blame game

BBC NEWS | Richard Black's blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It's a story that's been coming for the last few months; now that it's being written , the first cards of the blame game are being played. Remember the UN climate conference in Bali two years ago , and the road that stretched from there to Copenhagen? The last-night exhaustion and the tears, the drama of the US being asked to step aside if it wouldn't lead?...

'Dig deep' urges Miliband

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

WEALTHY nations need to "put their money where their mouth is" and promise finance for a global climate change deal, Ed Miliband said yesterday.

• Miliband lowers climate treaty hopes - Channel 4
• 'Dig deep' urges Miliband - Scotsman.com

No Copenhagen climate treaty this year?

SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

British Climate Secretary Ed Miliband says expect only a political deal , not an actual treaty. No real surprise there. And, contra warnings from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and US chief climate negotiator Todd Stern that only a "politically binding" agreement can now be achieved, I wouldn't even hold my breath on that, especially given...

No global climate change treaty likely for up to a year, negotiators admit

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

World's key industrialised nations say they have abandoned hope of legally binding deal at Copenhagen summit A global treaty to fight climate change will be postponed by at least six months and possibly a year or more, senior negotiators and politicians conceded today. In a day of gloomy statements, the world's key industrialised nations said they had abandoned hope of a legally binding treaty at...