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Nuclear plan will add £60 to bills

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:47:36 GMT

Jason Groves, Daily Mail 10 November 2009 And foreign companies will effectively be handed a £5bn subsidy to fast track the ten nuclear plants.
Source: This Is Money

Yesterday in parliament

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:58:47 GMT

Flooding on the scale seen in Cumbria over recent days will become more frequent due to climate change, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, warned. He said people in the rain-lashed county were battling with the "worst flooding in memory".
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Proving Nothing -- By: Brendan O'Neill

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:30:08 GMT

How’s this for embarrassing? On October 22, Britain’s secretary of state for climate change, Ed Miliband, helped to launch a new exhibition called “Prove It!” at the venerable Science Museum in London.
Source: National Review Online

Focus on leaked climate emails 'dangerous and irresponsible'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:55 GMT

People should be cautious about using leaked emails to cast doubt on the scientific consensus around climate change, Ed Miliband has warned.
Source: ePolitix

Quoted in 'UK Tories unveil plan for "greener" government'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:24:56 GMT

Ed Miliband said in International Business Times:

The truth is that the Tories have opposed Labour's extra public investment, including the 400 million pounds allocated at the time of the budget for new green industries

Renewables policy hopes dashed by tariffs row

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:35:41 GMT

Ed Miliband's hope of having a key government policy on renewable energy in place before the Copenhagen summit have been dashed by internal wrangling over the final levels at which so-called "feed-in tariffs" (FITs) will be set.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Security 'cover-up' at nuclear plants

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:06:37 GMT

The government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Wind of deceit drives Labour’s green energy plan

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:34:51 GMT

Blimey, what a hive of activity. In the space of 10 days we are told that wind turbines up to 50ft high are going to be allowed everywhere.
Source: Times Online

Climate crunch

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:35:36 GMT

Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster.
Source: Mail & Guardian Online

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:06:55 GMT

Britain's Energy Secretary Ed Miliband addresses members of the Environment Agency at a conference centre in central London November 9, 2009.

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:45:17 GMT

Britain's Energy Secretary Ed Miliband addresses members of the Environment Agency at a conference centre in central London November 9, 2009.

Quoted in 'Update on Copenhagen talks'

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:57:00 GMT

said in ePolitix:

I know how strongly people in my constituency feel about the need for agreement. Gordon Brown and the Secretary of State, Ed Miliband, are taking the international lead in the discussions leading up to Copenhagen, just as the then recently elected Labour government took a lead at Kyoto in 1997 in developing our current climate change agreement.

Ed Miliband's speech to Labour Party Conference

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:51:17 GMT