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Posts Tagged ‘North Sea’
Pollution, Aug 16th, 2011,
The oil leak in the North Sea, which was discovered by Shell last Monday – but not announced until Friday – has been mostly staunched, according to the UK government. Yet another, albeit much smaller, leak has been found stemming from the same offshore platform and it is spilling some 2 barrels of crude oil per day. The second leak is proving difficult to stop, according to Shell, due to its ‘awkward’ positioning. Last Monday’s oil spill is already being called the worst to occur in UK waters in the last 10 years. From an article in the Independent: An…
Tags: Greenpeace, leak, North Sea, oil, Shell, spill
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Sep 26th, 2010,
After four days of Greenpeace activists hanging in a survival pod attached to an oil drilling ship in the North Sea, a court in Edinburgh, Scotland issued an injunction yesterday ordering the campaigners to leave on grounds of safety. According to an article in the Observer, oil giant Chevron claimed the need to move their ship due to rough seas, though Greenpeace countered that Chevron simply intends to venture into another site for exploratory deep-sea drilling. Greenpeace announced that it would comply, nonetheless. Yet just one day later, Greenpeace has renewed its efforts to stop deep-sea oil drilling in the…
Tags: activists, Chevron, deep, deep sea, drilling, Greenpeace, North Sea, oil, ship, Stena Carron, swimmer, water
Politics, Pollution, Aug 5th, 2010,
Despite low public opinion on deep sea drilling and an overall global shift away from the practice, including the Obama administration’s moratorium in the US, the UK government – the ‘greenest government eva’ – has decided to go against the grain and allow exploratory drilling in the North Sea. A spokeswoman for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change was quoted in an article in the Independent: We will not consent to the drilling of any well unless we are convinced that it is designed to the very highest standards, that the equipment used is fully tested and that…
Tags: ban, BP, coalition, deep, Deepwater, drilling, government, Greenpeace, Gulf, Italian, Libya, Mediterranean, Mexico, moratorium, North Sea, oil, sea, spill, UK
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Jul 24th, 2010,
Despite the recent economic downturn, the green energy market has grown to the point of eclipsing fossil fuel – at least in terms of the creation of new power capacity in Europe and the United States. In 2009 renewables accounted for over 50% of new power capacity in the US and 60% in the Europe. Green power also grew globally. From an article in Red Herring magazine: Nearly 80 GW of renewable power capacity was added globally, including 31 GW of hydro and 48 GW of non-hydro capacity. Wind power and solar PV additions totaled a record high of 38…
Tags: capacity, China, energy, global, Green, investment, North Sea, power, renewable, Solar, UK, UN, wind
Climate Change, Pollution, Weird Stuff, Jan 21st, 2010,
Would you like to live on an oilrig? It’s more reasonable than asking ‘would you like to live on the moon?’ as was done in a widely ridiculed CNN poll last year. Much more perhaps – if waters rise and cities flood as a result of climate change. ‘UK Climate Projections, published last year by the Government, predicted that sea levels would rise by up to 76cm by 2095 but said that there was small risk of a more rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, resulting in a 1.9m rise by the end of the century. About ten million…
Tags: Climate change, decommissioned, london, North Sea, oilrig, recycled, rising, sea levels, study, Times
Climate Change, Politics, Jan 7th, 2010,
Nine European nations are preparing to draw up plans for the first clean energy project of its kind: A renewable supergrid. A network of undersea cables would span thousands of miles (kilometers) and cost up to €30 billion (over $43 billion). It would also act as a solution to one of the biggest problems faced by renewable power: how to make it reliable through all types of weather patterns. Calling the project a supergrid is by no means an overstatement. It will connect Scotland’s offshore wind turbines with Germany’s solar panels, which will then connect with the wave power provided…
Tags: Climate change, nine European nations, North Sea, renewable energy, renewable supergrid
