According to the FT Opec has said it will not cut oil production even if the price of oil falls to $20 a barrel. That
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We can’t burn our way to growth
Martin Wolf makes an observation in the FT this morning that my friend and Green New Deal colleague Jeremy Leggett has been making for some
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Hinkley Point: poverty of thinking pointing to a disaster waiting to happen
Hinkly Point C nuclear power station is to go ahead. So, the UK government is going to give a state owned French company working in
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Life can only be lived within limits
My friend and Green New Deal colleague, Andrew Simms, had an excellent article in the Guardian yesterday in which he pointed out that best estimates
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We’re already burning our way to oblivion. How does fracking help?
As the FT notes this morning: The wedge of land squeezed between the M56 and M62 in north-west England could be Britain’s new oil and
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Time to call Centrica’s bluff – and use the N word (that’s N for nationalisation)
The Guardian reports this morning: The dispute between energy firms and the government over the level of tax paid for offshore UK drilling dramatically escalated on
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Why the right can’t be trusted
The Guardian has reported: Japan has raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to the maximum seven, putting the emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi
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The meltdown begins
On Saturday I wrote a blog entitled This is not just nuclear melt down – it’s the next world financial crisis too. The usual right
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It’s not OK – we don’t have tsunamis – we have tidal surges
I have noticed that UK discussion on the threat from nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese crisis concentrates on reactor design. I have
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