News from March 2010

Obama eases ban on oil drilling

31st March 2010

US President Obama proposes to expand offshore oil and gas exploration in a bid to cut foreign energy dependency.

Inquiry call into nuclear waste

30th March 2010

A call for a public inquiry into how to deal with waste from a planned Anglesey nuclear power station is backed by the Welsh Assembly Government.

Approval for Attenborough buyout

30th March 2010

Islanders on Bute are given formal approval to buy 1,700 acres of land from film director Richard Attenborough.

Greenpeace warns on data centres

30th March 2010

Greenpeace calls on technology companies to use more renewable energy sources to power their data centres.

Island chosen for nuclear plant

30th March 2010

Two of the UK's biggest energy providers announce plans for a new nuclear power station on Anglesey.

Major wind turbine plan unveiled

29th March 2010

Wind turbine giant Siemens unveils £80m plans for a new factory in England which it says will create up to 700 new jobs.

Fighting the wind farm 'Nimbys'

29th March 2010

A former worker at a wind energy firm which closed its factory on the Isle of Wight visits the company's new site in the US.

Where have all the green jobs gone?

28th March 2010

Green jobs were meant to be the solution to the economic downturn. So where are they?

Call to scrap tidal energy plan

28th March 2010

Plans to produce tidal energy off the Cumbrian coast would endanger wildlife, according to the RSPB.

Abu Dhabi's 'green' city Masdar

28th March 2010

Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, car and skyscraper-free city, is being built in Abu Dhabi.

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