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Keir Starmer to push for investment in UK food and farming
Address to National Farmers’ Union aims to extend party’s support beyond urban strongholds
Sir Keir Starmer will call on farmers and people living in rural areas to take a fresh look at the Labour party, vowing to push for new investment in food and farming and a revision of subsidy payments, in an effort to move beyond the party’s urban strongholds.
He will urge people to buy more British food, and for more of the public sector’s £2.4bn food procurement budget to be spent locally, as well as calling for subsidised wages for apprentices to shore up the UK’s ageing farm workforce.
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California diesel consumption rises YoY in November as gasoline sales slump again
UK ETS free allowance handouts held up due to EU delays
Hayley Arceneaux: Cancer survivor joins first all-civilian space mission
US EPA backs federal court decision curtailing biofuel waivers
Did wind power ‘fail’ during the Texas blackout? A deep dive
Did Texas' wind turbines fail during the blackout? No. The deeper problem was a lack of planning and good investment, and the dangers of relying on gas.
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Pennsylvania will advance RGGI regulation despite commission’s call for delay
VCM Report: Market participants eye voluntary demand for California offsets
Australia's marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012
Why we should release New Zealand's strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods
EU Market: EUAs make late run above €38 after earlier technical breach
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Fifth HS2 protester leaves Euston tunnel
Larch Maxey’s exit leaves four in tunnel, as judge grants possession order to HS2
A fifth HS2 protester has voluntarily left the Euston tunnel, leaving four people still in occupation.
The decision by Dr Larch Maxey came on the same day that a high court judge granted a possession order to HS2 for the site in London.
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Australia was the first casualty of the big blackout lie blaming wind power – the US could be next | Ketan Joshi
As climate impacts intensify, power grids stuffed with ageing fossil fuel infrastructure crumble
Climate change is full of surprises. We were warned about heatwaves, hurricanes and high-intensity firestorms. What we didn’t see coming was a cynical, cyclical economy of blackout bullshit. As climate impacts intensify, power grids stuffed with ageing fossil fuel infrastructure crumble. Those blackouts are usually blamed on wind and solar – and used to extend the lifespan of existing fossil fuel generators. Opportunity costs increase, climate impacts worsen and blackouts intensify. It’s an accelerating death spiral.
Last week Texas suffered an outage likely to be the worst on record in the US. Millions of people were without power for days, initially at a scale roughly equivalent to all of eastern Australia going dark at once. A burst of winter weather froze vital components at power stations, gas supplies were limited by frozen pipelines and, consequently, a third of the state’s thermal power stations were offline (mostly gas). An unspecified proportion of wind turbines were disabled due to icing and low-temperature shutoffs, but “gas and coal were actually the biggest culprits in the crisis”, Eric Fell, director of North America gas at Wood Mackenzie, told Bloomberg.
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Low Carbon Trader, BP – Houston
NSW appoints first Renewable Energy Sector Board to guide energy plan
NSW government to draw upon the state's energy experts to seize green industry opportunities, unveiling the first Renewable Energy Sector Board.
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