howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
courtesy of the independent.
The Big Six energy companies have been accused of trying to wriggle out of their long-standing commitments to help vulnerable households struggling with their bills.
Under the Community Energy Saving Programme, which was launched in 2009, they are legally obliged to offer energy efficiency measures for free or at a very low cost to households in deprived communities.
But with the deadline rapidly approaching, the Big Six firms are now lobbying the Government for an extension. Without more time they are set to fail to meet the agreed targets. Caroline Flint, the shadow Energy Secretary, warned the Government not to cave in to the companies after ministers were forced to admit their lobbying activities.
In an answer to a parliamentary question, the Energy Minister Gregory Barker said he had met the Big Six on 1 February. A further question forced him to admit that the firms had asked to extend the 31 December 2012 deadline for achieving both the Community Energy Saving Programme (Cesp) and the Carbon Emission Reduction Target (Cert).
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#2
They might well find themselves in even bigger trouble over the next few years:
"Aerospace company Astrium is designing a new satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) to be used for monitoring greenhouse gas occurrences. The new climate satellite will be able to detect greenhouse gases with an unprecedented spatial resolution: 2 x 2 kilometers. The European Space Agency wants to hunt down environmental and climate violators with its new satellite. Aerospace company Astrium will put together a feasibility study for the project by the end of 2013, according to company reports Thursday. If things move forward successfully, the mission - dubbed CarbonSat - could already begin as soon as 2017 and thus enable monitoring of international climate treaties."
"Knowledge of both of these gases is not only decisive for climate forecasts, but also for monitoring international climate treaties,' emphasized Astrium-Germany Evert Dudok in an interview with the German Press Agency (dpa). Up to now there has been no reliable way of monitoring the implementation of the Kyoto and Copenhagen treaties. 'The target is to hunt down environmental violators".......
That's you, me and everybody. We are all violators.