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1181.Shell shelves plan for tar sands project in face of low oil prices (2015-02-25)
... Shell has shelved plans for a major new tar sands mine in Canada, the largest project yet to fall victim to low oil prices. The company has withdrawn its application for the 200,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Pierre River project and will instead concentrate on boosting the profitability of its existing 255,000-bpd oil sands operations. ...
1182.UK will need to import over half of its food within a generation, farmers warn (2015-02-24)
... Rising population will hit UK’s self sufficiency if government continues to ignore British food production, say NFU. More than half of the UK’s food will come from overseas within a generation, as a rising population and stalling farm productivity combine to erode what remains of the UK’s self-sufficiency, according to farming leaders. The UK’s failure... ...
1183.EU wants Paris climate deal to cut carbon emissions 60% by 2050 (2015-02-24)
... A major UN climate summit in Paris later this year should call on countries to make tough carbon cuts to avoid dangerous global warming, EU document says. The world’s states should commit to a legally binding emissions cut of 60% by 2050, with five-yearly reviews, in a Paris Protocol to replace the moribund Kyoto agreement... ...
1184.UK on track to meet its renewable energy targets (2015-02-23)
... Wind power has surged while gas use has fallen by over a fifth, putting UK on course to meet 2020 clean energy and climate goal. The UK is on track to meet its renewable energy goals, with wind power substituting for gas and coal use and driving down greenhouse gas emissions, according to new analyses. ...
1185.Balkan dam boom threatens Europe’s last wild waterways (2015-02-20)
... Environmental concerns have pushed one flagship dam project to the brink of cancellation but a ‘gold rush on the rivers’ of south-east Europe puts these unique ecosystems and their wildlife, including the critically endangered Balkan lynx, in jeopardy. ...
1186.Harvard prepares to fight fossil fuel divestment case in court (2015-02-19)
... World’s richest university will appear in court on Friday to seek dismissmal of lawsuit brought by students calling for it to pull investments out of coal, oil and gas companies. Lawyers for Harvard University will appear in court on Friday afternoon to fight off attempts to force the world’s richest university to dump coal, oil... ...
1187.World’s coral reefs face major bleaching event this year, US agency warns (2015-02-19)
... Worldwide bleaching of coral would be only third such event in recent history, driven by high ocean temperatures caused by global warming, RTCC reports. 2015 could see coral bleaching on a global scale for the third time in history – and the first in the absence of an El Niño. That is the latest prediction... ...
1188.Fossil fuel industry protests over ‘risky’ assets warning from energy secretary (2015-02-18)
... Oil and gas industry expresses concern in a letter to Ed Davey about his comments on fossil fuel assets becoming unburnable to stop dangerous climate change. ...
1189.Minister’s claims that solar panels harm UK food security are false (2015-02-18)
... Documents from environment secretary Liz Truss’s own department reveal they lack any data to back up claims used to justify removal of subsidies from farm land with solar panels. British food security is not being harmed by the spread of solar panels in the countryside as claimed by the UK’s environment secretary, documents from her... ...
1190.Biofuel from trash could create green jobs bonanza, says report (2015-02-17)
... Advanced biofuels industry could spur hundreds of thousands of jobs across Europe, says new report, but key European parliament vote next week could throw clean fuel ambitions into disarra. ...
