| Locals object to plans to locate wind turbine in town
|
| Residents in Buchan are bidding to block plans for
a single wind turbine on the outskirts of Peterhead. |
| this
is north scotland |
| TV professor to appear at windfarm inquiry |
| Popular environmental broadcaster Professor David Bellamy
is set to make an appearance at the public inquiry into plans to build
Britain's biggest windfarm near Tebay this week. |
| this
is the Lake District |
| 60 offshore turbines delay |
| The first offshore windfarm planned for the Solway
Firth in Scotland, has been delayed until next year. |
| News
& Star |
| MPI powers up with £20m windfarm deal |
| A company from the North-East at the forefront of the
wind energy revolution has secured a £20m contract. |
| icNewcastle |
| Huge radioactive leak closes Thorp nuclear plant |
| A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel dissolved
in concentrated nitric acid, enough to half fill an Olympic-size swimming
pool, has forced the closure of Sellafield's Thorp reprocessing plant.
|
The
Guardian
Times
Online |
| Nuclear power is not the solution to climate change
challenge |
| Building new nuclear power plants would be "unsafe,
uneconomic, unpopular and largely irrelevant" to the problem of climate
change, Friends of the Earth said today. |
| Friends
of the Earth |
| Blair's new nuclear threat |
| The Government is re-examining whether a new generation
of nuclear power stations is needed to help it hit pollution reduction
targets, it was revealed yesterday. |
| Western
Press |
| Blair demands nuclear power to protect high 'living
standards' |
| Tony Blair has ruled out making changes to "living
standards" to tackle global warming, and is drawing up plans to build
a new generation of nuclear power stations to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions instead. |
| Independent |
| Beckett plans to fight new nuclear stations |
| Margaret Beckett, the reappointed environment secretary,
has signalled her willingness to fight any plans to build nuclear
power stations, as Tony Blair comes under increasing pressure to adopt
this course. |
| FT.com
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