Energy
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Hitachi heads up new bid to build nuclear plant in WalesJapanese company and US construction group Bechtel offer rival proposal to French firm EDF’s plans for Hinkley Point C reactor
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Fracking investors losing patience with planning delays, says industry bossHead of Cuadrilla’s warning to UK energy minister over ‘unnecessary delays’ comes ahead of Yorkshire shale gas planning decision
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Greenpeace activists scale British Museum to protest BP sponsorshipMuseum temporarily closes as activists hang huge banners renaming the new BP-sponsored Sunken Cities Egypt exhibition as ‘Sinking Cities’
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London borough installs 6,000 solar panels over marketplace£2m scheme by Hounslow council on Western International Market will be biggest solar scheme by any local authority, and use batteries to store energy
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For areas on the wrong side of a boom, ‘jobs and growth’ makes sense – in the absence of a better-articulated vision for northern Australia, symbolism mattersIn regional Australia, messages about fairness can't drown out the three-word slogans
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Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy aloneZero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours
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Hollande renews support for Hinkley Point nuclear reactorsFrench president backs project despite fears that £18bn price tag could bankrupt EDF, which is 85% state-owned
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World's largest floating windfarm to be built off Scottish coastStatoil granted seabed lease to develop floating windfarm 15 miles off the coast of Peterhead that is expected to be operational by the end of 2017
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In the timeless Yorkshire moors of my childhood, the frackers are poised to start drillingVillages in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, hope a landmark ruling this week will save them from the disruption of the shale revolution
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Russia's state-owned nuclear group keen to break into UK marketRosatom understood to be hoping to revive plans to build reactors in Britain if EDF proposals for Hinkley Point C fail
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China nuclear company will not build Hinkley alone if EDF drops outCGN, which is helping French energy company with Hinkley Point C scheme, denies it will build reactors independently
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Civil disobedience is the only way left to fight climate changeAcross the world, thousands of protesters are taking on the planet’s biggest fossil fuel companies. We should support them – and if we can, we should join them
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Fracking tests in North Yorkshire move step closer in face of protestsCouncil report recommends granting permission to explore for shale gas under government’s fast-track scheme
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'Tantalisingly close': is solar thermal energy ready to replace coal-fired power?Australian projects are viable already – now the industry needs investors willing to take a risk on large-scale renewable energy
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The arsonists of Fort McMurray have a nameFossil fuel corporations are causing the climate change fuelling mega-fires – and they should be footing the bill for the devastation
North Yorkshire council faces pleas to reject fracking plan