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Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not...

Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland• Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rigFour Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned...

Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop drilling for fossil fuelsTen days ago I received a letter from Cairn Energy, the British company at the centre of Greenpeace's current direct action...

Kuupik Kleist claims environmental campaigners are damaging country's economy by occupy drilling platformThe premier of Greenland has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment after four...

Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raidGreenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four...

Charity predicts more food shortages in Africa because of EU target to produce 10% of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans...

The new yorker published a great article on how one family of rich industrialists have built an empire of bad science and climate change denial. a bad bad bad bad man With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David...

Regulator and builders blame each other for construction hold-up as designs await approvalThe schedule for the UK's nuclear reactor building programme has slipped behind already, the safety regulator has admitted, reinforcing...

Cairn Energy's oil and gas find sparks hopes that Greenland can ditch its reliance on fishing and tourismThe rain was tipping down today on the cluster of multicoloured buildings in the heart of the capital of Greenland but...

Environmental campaigners fear that drilling in the previously untouched Arctic area raises the risk of an environmental disaster on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon spill

Find by Cairn Energy off Greenland could open door to huge reserves of oil – and potential for more environmental disastersA British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could...

• Cairn says well has found gas and oil-bearing sands in Arctic• Greenpeace ship already in area protesting against drillingCairn Energy has confirmed that it has discovered gas and oil-bearing sands off the coast of...

Behind government dismissals of 'alarmist' fears there is growing concern over critical future energy suppliesSpeculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted...

• PV Crystalox Solar blow adds to gloom in green energy sector• Crystalox boss insists group can compete effectivelyThe tough environment being faced by many companies in the green energy field was highlighted again today...

Rockhopper Exploration's latest well comes up dry, giving Falklands oil hopes another setbackExcitement about the potential of oil prospects off the Falklands was further punctured today when Rockhopper Exploration revealed...

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