The UK Government will allow two companies to conduct seismic oil and gas surveys in Scotland’s Moray Firth this autumn. Moray Firth, which has been classified a European Special Area of Conservation (SAC), supports the only known resident population of bottlenose dolphins in the North Sea. This decision seems at odd with European legislation, which …
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Greenpeace LIVE: we’ve scaled and occupied Cairn’s Arctic rig: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/live-weve-scaled-and-occupied-cairns-arctic-rig-20110422?utm_source=20110420ebulletinArcticTurkey&utm_medium=email&utm_term=oil&utm_campaign=climate Cairn Energy’s Leiv Eiriksson oil rig is currently on its way to Baffin Bay, Greenland, to begin deep sea drilling in the Arctic – a prospect Cairn Energy’s boss Bill Gammell has described as ‘like going to the casino’. Nice guy. Any oil spill in …
I just received an email from the NRDC NRDC (www.nrdc.org), with the sad news that in a last-minute budget deal agreed to by the US Congress, the grey wolf will be stripped of its endangered species status across most of the Northern Rockies. The grey wolf has been listed as an endangered species since 1973 …
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The Government, in its great and infinite wisdom, plans to sell off large tracts of the UK’s forests to private companies to raise some cash – thus reversing laws which have protected them since the 13th century or in some cases even earlier. This is a spectacularly stupid and shortsighted piece of ‘planning’ – the …
The proposed damming of the Rio Baker and Rio Pascua in Chilean Patagonia has been debated for quite some time – and the fact that it’s still even a remote possibility is both deeply depressing and profoundly shortsighted…. Chilean Patagonia has some of the most beautifully unspoilt landscapes I have ever seen, anywhere. Click here …