Renewables

It has been labelled the Wind Rush by certain parts of the press, and like it or not, it seems to be headed to the UK.

The implementation of wind farms is the government’s latest environmental pet project and recent news coming from Brussels has highlighted the increasing need for wind power in the UK.

Wind Farm in Maryland Hits
Gale Force Opposition. Tom Pelton, Baltimore Sun,
January 29, 2009. "Business and political leaders in
Western Maryland's Garrett County are lining up against a proposal to allow the

A recent email alert from Mass
Climate Action Network (MCAN) has a section titled: "New Opinion Poll
Finds Growing Support for Cape Wind" in which it says: "An opinion
survey released October 25th found that 61 percent of residents of the Cape and
islands - slightly more than three in five - support the Cape Wind project. The
survey, commissioned by the Newton-based Civil Society Institute and conducted
by Opinion Research Corporation, also found bipartisan support for the

Greenpeace volunteers from APEC member countries today called on Australia Prime Minister Mr John Howard not to use the APEC summit in Sydney next week to derail the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In Manila, Greenpeace delivered a letter to the Australian Embassy, while in Thailand, volunteers dressed in Koala costumes unfurled a banner reading "Kyoto- Just Do It" at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok.

Greenpeace Misleads on Cape Wind
Hyannis, MA - 08/24/2007
[press release from Save our Sound]

Media campaign falsely declares Cape Wind has cleared hurdles.
The international environmental group Greenpeace has embarked on a television and media campaign attacking opponents of Cape Wind that is replete with errors and misstatements while it promotes a project it falsely claims has “been certified as having no significant impact on the marine environment, navigational safety and shipping lanes.”

A short film on nuclear power vs renewables and efficiency.

The single biggest use of fossil fuels isn't for electricity or for transport, but for creating heat (domestic and industrial). So any solution to climate change needs to contribute to heating, as well as to electricity generation.

Paris, 3 July 2007. For immediate release. The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage, according to a new report by 11 civil society organisations from around the world.

Agrofuels – towards a reality check in nine key areas sets out considerable evidence that the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures, mostly in the global south – is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations.

When one of Asia’s leading institutions says it’s serious about funding the solutions to climate change that makes us happy. But when we discover that this commitment goes no further than a glossy brochure, we can't let that pass.