BP’s downgrade could bring sunset closer for fossil fuels. Image: By Zbynek Burival on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Kieran Cooke It’s all change as one oil major writes down its assets, seeing a possible 30-year slump ahead in global demand. This week, BP, one of the so-called super oil majors, said it was writing [...]
By Stewart Dalby Biome Technologies is a small company which has been mostly loss-making in the past few years. It is quoted on London’s AIM and has two divisions. The Bioplastics arm’s goal is to formulate and supply a range of innovative bioplastics technology that replaces existing oil-based materials. In particular, there has been a [...]
By Stewart Dalby Aim-listed, The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), is an investment trust similar to Greencoat UK Wind, another AIM quoted fund that we wrote about recently. Both companies operate in the renewable energy space with the aim of generating annual dividend increases for shareholders while preserving the capital value of their investment portfolios in [...]
Taking no chances: Flower power backs up wind energy. Image: By Gustavo Quepón on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website By Kieran Cooke At a casual glance, you could be forgiven for thinking that fossil fuels are here to stay for a long time yet, although not everything on the horizon is rosy. The world, admittedly, [...]
By Stewart Dalby Shareholders and other interested investors in Greencoat UK Wind, a leading renewable infrastructure fund, must by now have got used to the fact that each year around February, the company announces a very pleasant annual event. For seven consecutive years, since the company listed on London’s alternative investment market AIM, it has [...]
A wandering albatross has an average wingspan of over three metres. Image: By Fer Nando on Unsplash This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Tim Radford From the deep Mediterranean marine mud to the desolate beaches of the Southern Ocean, plastic waste now gets everywhere. The throwaway society now has a global reach. British and German [...]
By Stewart Dalby Time was IGas Energy’s story was one of a small conventional UK oil and gas producer. It also had potentially great value upside through its large unconventional shale holdings throughout the UK. Now, with the so-called shale revolution on hold because of a government-imposed moratorium in 2019, we are looking at how [...]
The Sizewell B station, due to close in the 2030s. Image: By John Fielding, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Sea level rise may consign the planned UK site for two large nuclear reactors to vanish beneath the waves. Controversial plans by the French nuclear giant EDF [...]
Time marches on: Coal gas went in the 1970s; natural gas will follow soon. Image: By Ellievking1, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net Website This story is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. By Paul Brown Committed to a carbon-free future by 2050, [...]
By Stewart Dalby Hydrodec Group’s recent history has been a tale of one step forward and two steps back in its fortunes. A Trading Update for the year ending 31 December 2019, published on 14 February 2020 suggests, however, that due to some fortuitous developments the company might now be able to break out of [...]