Energy News

It is reported that within a decade Scotland could be generating enough electricity to meet the needs of every household in the country. This claim follows the announcement by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) of plans for two new huge hydro-electric schemes in the Great Glen.
If implemented these will be the first pumped storage [...]

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It is reported that proposals to build Britain’s first geothermal plant have been revealed. The proposal centres around using the heat from granite outcrops located deep beneath the Earth’s surface to produce electrical power. Should the plan come to fruition then it is claimed the plant would be used to supply Cornwall’s Eden Project. Thereafter [...]

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It was reported earlier this week that Europe’s largest operating onshore wind farm was officially “opened” by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. >>>

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As regular visitors to these pages will know Land & People are no fans (no pun intended) of land-based wind farms, we consider them inefficient, overrated (in terms of electrical output) and a blot on the landscape. >>>

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We recently reported on problems facing the London Array, the vast proposed wind farm to be located in the mouth of the Thames estuary. However, the Array is not the only proposed wind project having problems at the moment, as the following abridged report from the Diss Mercury explains: >>>

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According to reports the developers of the London Array, the project to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary, are seeking a financial bailout and have approached the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Although work has not as yet started, the German owned energy company Eon, together with its partners Dong Energy and [...]

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Regular visitors to this site will know that Land & People are no friends of land-based wind farms. In our opinion they are a blot on the landscape, will never have the capacity to be other than a very small part of the answer to this country’s energy needs, are a menace to wildlife and [...]

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Yesterday we told you about the realities that lie behind the hype of the Wind Power industry. Today we can report that the self same Wind Power white elephant wants even more of your cash.
The UK wind industry is reportedly lobbying the Treasury to deliver an improved financial support package in next month’s budget, [...]

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Here at ‘Land & People‘ we have long argued about the dangers of relying upon ‘Wind Power’ /Renewable Energy to provide us with sufficient energy.

a peaceful evening - with no wind
We have provided articles written by ‘experts ‘ that have sought to explain the technical problems related to renewable energy sources:  And we have given [...]

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Envirionment News

We are grateful to one of our readers for drawing our attention to a posting that has recently appeared on the cobweb site of the Melon Party - as in green on the outside but otherwise red to the core.
According to the “article”:
“The BNP offers Britain nothing but hatred and disrespect” – unlike, presumably, the [...]

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More gloom on the ornithological front, this time concerning puffins. A sharp decline in puffin numbers has been noticed for some time now. Indeed, the number of puffins found in their North Sea colonies is estimated to have crashed by almost a third. Other studies suggest that its numbers have declined by over 40% [...]

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The British National Party has today published the following article which indicates that the world’s worst polluters per capita are to be found amongst the states of the Middle East!
The barrage of incompetent liberal fools led by Gordon Brown have demanded that European First World nations take the blame and financial responsibility for alleged global [...]

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It was reported earlier this week by the Environment Agency that up to one in six homes in England are at risk of flooding and, furthermore, that climate change could increase that number unless better protection is provided.
There is a cost to this of course. Experts calculate that flood defence spending needs to double to [...]

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A three year long investigation has concluded that British supermarket cartels are partly responsible for driving the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by importing meat from Brazilian farms engaged in illegal deforestation. >>>

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A recent study has concluded that reindeer and caribou populations are in decline in many Arctic areas, including vast swathes of Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia. The evidence suggests that these animals are finding it increasingly difficult to cope in a warming world.
Zoologists have identified seven sub-species, each being slightly genetically, morphologically and behaviourally a [...]

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According to the results of a new study Greenland’s melting ice may have a greater impact on sea level rise on the north-eastern coasts of the United States and Canada than previously thought.
The study, prepared by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has concluded that Greenland’s ice melt may not only have a far [...]

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It’s not a revelation, it’s not even rocket science – yet the fact that immigration fuelled overpopulation is wrecking this country’s delicate eco-systems barely generates a murmur from the Government or its agencies. Then, of course, there is the so-called – “Green” Party >>>

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