January 21, 2016
The post-Paris scene, part 3: Renewables industry: in festive mood
As you can imagine, there was still quite a lot of post-Paris pixie-dust being sprinkled around in Abu Dhabi. At the first World Future Energy Summit, nine years ago, conventional…
January 21, 2016
The post-Paris scene, part 4: Oil and gas: still hanging in
So where does all that upbeat, excitable buzz around renewables leave the oil and gas companies? Well, they’re still hanging in there, with exhibition stands as bullish and brazen…
January 21, 2016
The post-Paris scene, part 5: Same old dreams, same old lies
So much for the fossil fuel lobbies. What of our dearly beloved friends in the nuclear industry? The industry has had a constant presence at the World Future Energy Summit since…
January 20, 2016
The post-Paris scene, part 1: the Zayed Future Energy Prize
Back in Abu Dhabi for the ninth World Future Energy Summit, and the eighth Award Ceremony for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, which I’ve been involved in from the start as a member…
November 3, 2015
#KeepItClean !
Check out the new #KeepItClean campaign from Salt Magazine: http://www.wearesalt.org/vivienne-westwood-and-salt-launch-keepitclean-campaign-2/ - a series of open letters and…
October 19, 2015
Meltdown for Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists
I wonder what our pro-nuclear greenies will be thinking this week as they listen to President Xi Jinping and George Osborne bombastically declaring ‘a new nuclear dawn for the…
October 15, 2015
Hinkley C: ‘The Most Expensive White Elephant in British History’
The latest instalment in George Osborne’s personally-authored potboiler, the Hinkley Point F***** (think ‘Fiasco’!) will be published sometime around October 20th to mark the…
July 15, 2015
Is the Nuclear Industry the Least Innovative Industry in the World?
Today sees the publication of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. As a long-term and very engaged participant in the nuclear debate, I’ve absorbed each WNISR with…
July 13, 2015
The Slow but Assured Death of UK Renewables
Things go from bad to worse on the renewable energy front. 1. Even those who are accustomed to George Osborne’s hostility to the renewables industry were astonished by his…
June 18, 2015
The Power of Sustainable Energy For All
Kandeh Yumkella is the inspirational leader of the UN’s Sustainable Energy 4 All campaign. On Thursday last week, he gave the keynote speech to the 2015 Ashden Awards.…