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Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Labour price freeze pledge will mean cancelling carbon tax increase

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Ed Miliband's headline grabbing pledge to freeze energy prices unti 2017 must mean the cancellation of the planned increase in the '...
Monday, 23 September 2013

Eurosolar co-operative prizewinner to speak at event discussing what makes for success in community renewable energy schemes

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How can community renewable energy schemes be successful? A half day seminar at Aberdeen University – sponsored by the School of Social ...
Monday, 16 September 2013

Greens now only anti-nuclear party as Lib Dems go radioactive

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So now the only anti-nuclear British political party is the Green Party, or two to be precise since the Scottish Green Party and the Green ...
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Saturday, 31 August 2013

US Congress vote on Syria: a precursor to western involvement in a regional war?

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President Obama's announcement that he will give Congress a vote on whether to attack the Assad regime may seem like a step back from t...
Friday, 23 August 2013

DEFRA poised to cover up negative impact of shale gas on house prices

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Owen Paterson's much publicised prospect of what appears to be a contrived attack on the 'rural economic' impacts (on house ...
Saturday, 3 August 2013

King backs solar after Monbiot attacked King for backing nuclear

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David King, former Chief Scientist for the UK Government and perennial nuclear power champion has boosted establishment support for solar ...
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Monday, 29 July 2013

Energy Security is what dominant interests want it to mean says academic study

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A wide-ranging study of the relationship between energy security and climate change concludes, among other things, that there is little cons...
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Dr David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Aberdeen. You can see his profile at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/david.toke?count=10 He has been campaigning on energy issues for about 35 years, and in 1990 his book ‘Green Energy’ was an influential argument in the UK for a non-nuclear approach to dealing with global warming. He was a key player in the campaign to establish feed-in tariffs for small renewable projects in the UK, achieved in 2008. He has consistently argued that the UK's proposed nuclear power programme is not only uneconomic compared to renewable energy, but that it is undeliverable short of one or more governments signing what amounts to a 'blank cheque' to pay for the nuclear power plant. His latest book, published by Routledge is called 'Low Carbon Politics'. He has published many papers in leading political science journals on environmental, especially energy (and renewable energy) issues and he is also a frequent and well cited contributor to the journal 'Energy Policy' published by Elsevier. His twitter address is @DaveToke
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