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- Green Investment Bank sell-off racks up at least £1m in fees Mon, 13 Mar 17, 2:10amMPs condemn ‘waste of money’ as documents show controversial £2bn privatisation has cost taxpayers at least £1m in banking and legal fees
- Parliamentary aide to Vince Cable resigns over anti-fracking stance Wed, 28 Jan 15, 10:31amTessa Munt, the MP for Wells, defied government will by voting on Monday to support a moratorium on frackingA parliamentary aide to Vince Cable has resigned after she voted against the government to support a moratorium on...
- Vince Cable: shale gas won't be a reality in UK for at least a decade Tue, 4 Feb 14, 5:00pmBusiness secretary calls for energy policies to focus on renewables, describing fracking as a long-term optionShale gas is no more than a long-term possibility for the UK and should not be a key plank of energy policy for...
- Hinkley Point's first impact will be to add to consumers' bills | Nils Pratley Sat, 19 Oct 13, 8:02amThe UK would be agreeing to buy electricity from Hinkley Point at £93 per megawatt hour – roughly twice the current market rateThe deal is still to be signed, but already some extraordinary claims are being made about...
- Britain’s Green Investment Bank Loans $1 Billion in First Months of Business Tue, 14 May 13, 3:30amPhoto via Shutterstock In order to help reduce carbon emissions by 2020, the UK government recently opened the Green Investment Bank (GIB) in Edinburgh, making it the first bank in the world focused entirely on lending to...
- Government $1bn deal to controversial Petrobras deep-sea oil drilling Thu, 12 Jul 12, 4:21amFunding to Brazil state-owned company from ECGD department raises environmental concerns from MPs and campaignersThe government has committed $1bn of taxpayer's funds to support deep-sea drilling in the south Atlantic, despite...
- Nuclear power and flood defences in line for green investment bank cash Wed, 25 May 11, 2:50amVince Cable fleshes out plans for bank, including priorities for funding and who will be de facto chairmanFlood defences and nuclear power are expected to receive funding from the green investment bank, according to detailed...
- Vince Cable and Chris Huhne clash over carbon emissions Tue, 10 May 11, 6:44amVince Cable has refused to support new carbon reduction targets recommended by the Committee on Climate ChangeThe business secretary, Vince Cable, has clashed with his Lib Dem cabinet colleague Chris Huhne by telling him...
- Science Weekly: Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough and algae Mon, 13 Sep 10, 9:05amAlison Smith from the University of Cambridge joins us to discuss what single-celled organisms can do to cure our addiction to oil. Oh, and perhaps help make vitamins and pharmaceuticals too.
- Three reasons why our economy is heading for the rocks Tue, 15 Jun 10, 10:49pm1. The BP oil spill. It’s much, much, MUCH worse than we think. I personally have no sympathy whatsoever for BP. No Big Oil company has been more assiduous in sucking up to ecotards, bigging up the “alternative...
- Banking on a green industrial revolution Mon, 30 Nov 09, 11:00amIdea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains groundGeorge Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating...