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Is a ‘green populism’ possible, and can Labour help foster it?
TweetLabour and greens need to work together to build a new populist politics of the environment, Maurice Glasman,architect of Blue Labour, argued at a Labour party conference fringe event last night....
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George Osborne – driving the UK to frack and ruin
TweetKathy Cumming is the press officer for Greenpeace UK “Frack jacks” were flying out the door of Tatton’s Cranford café yesterday, local schoolchildren walking to school told me conspiratorially...
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Hinkley C go ahead will see consumers ripped off for the next 40 years
TweetEmma Gibson is deputy head of campaigns at Greenpeace The last nuclear power station to come on line in the UK was on Valentine’s Day 1995. This afternoon Ed Davey stood up in the House of Commons...
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Misleading Taxpayers’ Alliance claims about green energy costs
TweetYesterday it was claimed in both the Mail and the Telegraph that energy prices were likely to increase by almost a third to £1,900 by the end of the decade. The claim was based on a report by the...
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Today’s announcement on fracking has tilted the balance further in favour of...
TweetLawrence Carter is an energy campaigner for Greenpeace Today George Osborne more than halved the amount of tax the UK’s nascent shale gas industry will need to pay, from 62 per cent to 30 per...
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UK energy – who’s holding the reins?
TweetKathy Cumming is the UK press officer for Greenpeace What a month for the Big 6. Whether cuts to energy efficiency measures, a green light for unabated coal burning, fracking tax breaks that lock...
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Onshore wind is being sacrificed to protect the profits of the big six
TweetIn reality, the government’s decision to scrap onshore wind is all about the big six, writes Jimmy Aldridge Today energy minister Michael Fallon announced that if the Tories win the next election...
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The Queen’s Speech: your home is no longer your castle
TweetThe government has brought forward legislation that could lead to people being stripped of their right to object to fracking underneath their homes This morning we transformed David Cameron’s...
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The UK risks looking foolish if it doesn’t address its coal problem
TweetInstead of an exit strategy, the government have been laying the groundwork for a continuation of coal This week has seen the UK government attempt to take a leadership role in climate action with...
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Give power to cities to transform the energy market
TweetGiving cities more power can help provide an alternative to the big energy companies Cities are the powerhouses of the UK economy accounting for 58 per cent of jobs, 60 per cent of the economy, 72...
View ArticlePoll shows pro-fracking candidates in key marginals at risk from protest vote
In one of the most uncertain elections in a generation, fracking could become a surprisingly important issue for candidates in marginal seats. That’s according to a major ComRes survey commissioned...
View ArticleFarage’s stance on fishing is gutless
UKIP’s new election poster is a corker. Unveiled in Grimsby yesterday, the poster highlights the plight of fishing businesses that have been “ripped apart due to the EU” and depicts a fishermen who...
View ArticleLess than a third of UK public support Osborne’s nuclear power deal
Tonight the Chinese President Xi Jinping will land in the UK for his first state visit, with David Cameron hailing this as a ‘golden era‘ in British-Chinese relations. Among the items on the agenda...
View ArticleOsborne’s aversion to renewables is frighteningly short-sighted
This spring budget has an autumnal feel, like a bonfire night rocket whose brave, soaring ascent suddenly becomes a spectacular explosion, with each little bright blue spark dimming as it descends....
View ArticleWithout the EU Britain could still be ‘the dirty man of Europe’
Image: Greenpeace activists protest London’s air pollution levels Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/ Greenpeace EU membership is good for the UK’s environment – that’s the ‘overwhelming view’ of environmental...
View Article‘Shocking’, ‘stupid’, ‘backwards’– May scraps Department for Energy and...
Environmental activists have responded furiously to the news that Theresa May is closing down the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Its functions will now fall to the newly-formed Department...
View ArticleBrexit puts Britain’s environment at risk – can the cabinet be trusted to...
Credit: Thomas Nugent After a reshuffle that made Macmillan’s night of the long knives look like the twilight of the toothpicks, a radically re-shaped government will now be addressing a radically...
View ArticleGreenpeace is rebranding the Brexit bus outside Parliament
Image: GreenpeaceUK Remember Boris Johnson’s Brexit bus? Once the EU referendum campaign ended it disappeared from sight pretty quickly, along with the Brexiters’ promise of an extra £350m a week for...
View ArticleHinkley nuclear plant extention set for green light
An £18 billion extention to Hinkley nuclear reactor in Somerset is expected to get the go ahead today, despite concerns over its cost and environmental impact. A decision on the Hinkley Point C site...
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Public support for fracking just hit a record low
Public support for fracking is at its lowest since records began, with just one in seven people now backing the controversial energy source – according to the government’s own research. The Energy and...
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