Five men were arrested outside a nuclear power station shortly after the death of Osama Bin Laden was announced. The arrest, announced by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, were made under the Terrorism Act police said today (May 3). Cops reported that at 4.32pm on Monday (May 2), officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary carried out a 'stop check' on a vehicle close to the Sellafield nuclear power station in West Cumbria.
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
UK will 'utterly destroy' North Sea industry
Oil and gas leaders will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort to persuade the Government to abandon a £10bn tax grab on North Sea energy companies, amid warnings the levy will "utterly destroy" the industry.
Chief executives are expected to tell the energy select committee that the tax will close down fields early and mean the majors find it difficult to sell older fields to new owners.Meanwhile, Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, will have to defend the impact the tax is likely to have on oil and gas production at a time when Britain needs to bolster its energy security.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Woman steals smart meter SIM for downloads
A woman has been jailed for using a stolen SIM card to download almost $200,000 worth of data from the internet.
Kylie Maree Monks, 33, pleaded guilty to computer-related fraud, receiving stolen property and one count of making a false declaration.
In the Supreme Court in Hobart yesterday, Justice Shan Tennent said Monks was given the SIM card which had been taken from an Aurora power meter equipped with a wireless data connection to the Telstra NextG network.
Britain’s Royally Disastrous Energy Policies
In June, London-based auctioneers Christie’s expects to raise £100,000+ selling Margaret Thatcher’s famous Asprey handbag. It’s the bag often carried by the Iron Lady on foreign trips and gave rise to the term “hand-bagging”, a term used by the British press to describe Mrs Thatcher occasional style in political debate with other national – mostly European – leaders.
If its value weren’t quite so high, it would be worth the investment of UK energy insiders who might consider using it to knock some sense into the heads of those having anything to do with formulating current coalition energy policies.
Firms face big fines for poor CRC reporting
The organisations in question are those whose half hourly electricity consumption totals more than 6,000 MWh per year (equivalent to approximately £500,000 annual spend).
The reports are due by the end of July, so participants only have three months to prepare them, yet fresh research by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that only 21% of organisations questions said that they were even currently reporting their carbon emissions.
The scheme's regulator, the Environment Agency, can implement fines of £5,000 if a company does not submit their report on time, plus £500 for each day that the report is overdue.http://www.eaem.co.uk/news/firms-face-big-fines-poor-crc-reporting
Wind farms paid £900,000 to switch off for one night
Wind farms operators were paid £900,000 by the National Grid to disconnect their turbines for one night because the electricity was not needed.
The payments, worth up to 20 times the value of the power they would have produced, raises serious concerns about such subsidies, which are paid for by the customer.
The six Scottish wind farms were asked to stop producing electricity on a particularly windy night last month as the National Grid was overloaded.
Their transition cables do not have the capacity to transfer the power to England and so they were switched off and the operators received compensation. One operator received £312,000, while another benefited by £263,000.
Monday, 2 May 2011
Never Have So Many Factors Influenced UK Gas Prices
Back in the days when British North Sea natural gas reserves were at full throttle Britain use to be self sufficient for natural gas. In those days only a couple of factors had major influence in UK gas prices, they were weather and demand, the golden days as many energy brokers referred it. Nowadays the UK gas and energy market has grown more complex with several factors influencing prices on a daily basis.
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