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After Burnham's 'pragmatic' decision, how sure can we be that the foreign gas we are said now not to have to import will not be used elsewhere, just the same, reducing the incentive of whoever buys it to switch to renewables? A good response from Prof Kevin Anderson bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Jackdaw: a decision for last century. climateuncensored.com/jackdaw-a-de... A hastily drafted post following the UK Govt’s decision to approve further drilling & production at the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. Please excuse typos, non-sequiturs, etc - I wanted to get the post online today.

climateuncensored.comJackdaw: a decision for the last century - Climate UncensoredThis post borrows from and builds on my four previous posts about Jackdaw and Rosebank.
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This week marks one year since the government gave Chiltern Railways the franchise to run Oxford to Milton Keynes services. And it's 520 days the £1.3 bn link was completed. But still no passenger trains. Government, why? www.linkedin.com/pulse/brand-...

linkedin.comThe brand new railway with no trainsTomorrow marks one year since the government gave Chiltern Railways the franchise to run Oxford to Milton Keynes services. And it will be 520 days since work was completed on the crucial section that ...
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Bicester to Bletchley section of the new East West railway was handed over to Network Rail in Dec, 2024. Freight trains have run on it since the summer. But not passenger trains. So a whole year since completion, we, the public who paid for it, can't use it. And no-one in government seems to care.

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UK govt consults on its plan to revoke A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) Development Consent Order 2023. It just may save Stonehenge world heritage site (WHS). If the govt scraps DCO, it could kill idea of a tunnel under the WHS - centerpiece of A303 project. For ever? substack.com/@garethhuwda...

substack.comGareth Huw Davies Writer (@garethhuwdavieswriter)The saving of Stonehenge? A dull government announcement, the sort of thing only planning nerds notice, may just be the salvation of Stonehenge. It slipped out last week, smothered in a busy news sc...

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