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United Kingdom: One house every minute: are sustainability targets an impossible mission?
Posted by Guardian: Matthew Bush on November 13th, 2012
Guardian: The government's sustainability targets undoubtedly represent a lot of challenges for the housing sector, but the biggest of these to overcome is the perception that achieving them could be an impossible mission.
When you consider all that we currently know about the logistics of achieving these targets – cost per property, the difficulties in achieving behavioural change and the rate of retrofitting that would have to be maintained, currently estimated at one house every minute – there is good...
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Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on November 13th, 2012
EcoWatch: On Nov. 12, more than thirty people gathered in front of a fracking well site operated by Shell Oil to protest the impacts drilling is having on farmers in Pennsylvania. The well pad is 4,000 feet from Maggie Henry’s farm near New Castle, Pa.
Henry raises organic eggs, poultry and pork, and she fears that unconventional gas drilling will contaminate her well water and force her out of business. The gas well and the Henry farm lie in an area littered with hundreds of abandoned and unplugged oil...
Will US energy boom turn out to be a bust?
Posted by Politico: Talia Buford and Matt Daily on November 13th, 2012
Politico: Long a beggar on the world energy stage, the United States is entering what many experts are calling an era of growing abundance — perhaps enough to turn the nation into a net exporter of oil and natural gas by the end of the decade. It’s a stunning turnaround from the expectations of scarcity and growing dependence on imports that have ruled U.S. energy policy since the early 1970s. The shift has emerged only in the past few years as technological advances have allowed oil and gas companies to...