THREAD: Yesterday, news from bp that it's scaling down one of its big European refineries, anticipating a global decline in demand for petrochemical products thetimes.com/business-money…

At the end of his first full week as Energy Sec, Ed Miliband has approved three large-scale solar farms. ✅ Sunnica Energy Farm ✅ Mallard Pass Solar Farm ✅ Gate Burton Energy Park 1.5GW of clean power unlocked with the stroke of a pen.

Key thing to keep in mind next time you hear anyone ranting about North Sea oil exploration: both those ranting it should be stopped & those ranting it should continue. They're ranting about a surprisingly tiny amount of oil. The red sliver here is projected future discoveries👇

“Tory MPs, one more thing. There’s something bothering me. You left the justice system with a massive backlog of cases. You filled prisons to bursting even after releasing prisoners early. Now you are blaming Labour for the prison crisis. Do you think the public are stupid?”

Sam Bowman The thing is, you can do both.

Robert Jenrick Folks, Folks Gather round A tale of one man and his need to avoid taxation for a "friend". theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

Positive review in Mail on the Dacia Spring As a £15k budget EV, its an important car "What Spring does better than any other EV, though, is prove that affordable electric motoring is achievable today, and in a very endearing package". thisismoney.co.uk/money/electric…

Pre-election we called for solar on the 1.5m new homes The Labour Party committed to build. 🏡☀️ It could create 6GW of clean power, generating electricity not only for the 1.5m homes but an additional >1m Today The Observer is reporting a rooftop revolution. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The 'threat to agriculture' argument is very misleading As Carbon Brief has already debunked at length, solar panels make up 0.1% of all land in the UK, and the most we'll ever need is around 0.5%, half the land used up by golf courses carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is-s…

Yesterday #wind generated 28.0% of British electricity followed by nuclear 20.2%, gas 19.5%, imports 16.1%, solar 7.5%, biomass 7.4%, hydro 1.2%, coal 0.0%, coal 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

Just to be clear when Train Operators say they have cancelled services “due to a lack train crew”, what they actually mean is “due to our failure to recruit the correct level of staff required to meet our service delivery obligations” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨 NEW: Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority PM Mustafa to discuss an immediate ceasefire and “a pathway towards” a two-state solution

China's thermal (coal and gas) power generation fell 7% on year in June, accelerating from a 4% drop in May. Solar power continued to deliver most of power generation growth, and the recovery of hydropower from earlier droughts helped push fossil fuels down sharply. Industrial

#Transition #Renewables #ClimateEmergency energy-storage.news/massive-growth…

How many rural Brits support solar farms being built in their local area? 6️⃣4️⃣% 🔆 Rise of the 🇬🇧 SIMBY 🔆 bit.ly/3Vrdrfl

FUN FACT: Onshore wind and solar could provide enough electricity to power ALL homes in England TWO AND A HALF times over. And England could produce 13 TIMES more renewable energy than it does, using LESS than 3% of land. Who else supports MORE renewables?

Trams are coming to West Yorkshire! 🚊 See the proposed routes and tell us what you think in our Mass Transit Consultation: wymasstransit.com

Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic. Rachel Carson warned the world back in 1963 She was ignored and pesticide industry continue to make billions wiping out Bees and insects Without Bees many food crops will vanish

The head of the Australian Energy Market Operator says nuclear isn’t an option to replace Australia’s coal fleet as it’s too slow and expensive, and says ‘baseload’ power sources in any case won’t be able to compete in a grid dominated by wind & solar reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-too-sl…

Nothing to see here. #Nuclear is completely safe ... Tepco aiming to release 54,600 tons of rad-contaminated 'treated' #Fukushima waste water this year. Fact is, #Tepco's monitoring is deeply dubious. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/1…