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The Treasury growls as Nick Clegg pushes the green agendaGuardian Unlimited | 17 Feb 2011The Liberal Democrats want the green bank to be a proper bank. But Whitehall's powerbase is determined to frustrate them. The Treasury is the most powerful department in Whitehall, but it is busy making itself unpopular even by its own abrasive standards. Jeremy Heywood, the most judicious of civil servants, was recently heard to say that the government's attempt to create a new green bank had become a battle of "everybody against the Treasury".
England | Economics and the Environment | Governance | Policy Plans for Channel undersea nuclear reactorsGuardian Unlimited | 15 Feb 2011Ecologist: Plans for undersea nuclear reactors around the coast of France could see a boom in uptake of the technology - but serious questions about costs and waste remain unanswered. Since the oil shocks of the 1970's the French government has invested heavily in nuclear power. At that time, most of the electricity in France came from oil fired power stations, and the oil was imported mostly from the Middle East.
England | Energy Production | Nuclear Power 'Bonfire of the quangos' threatens climate change committeeGuardian Unlimited | 13 Feb 2011Public bodies bill flawed, say Greenpeace and WWF. The independent status of Britain's key climate change watchdog is under threat, environmental groups have warned, because it has been included on a list of quangos whose structure could be altered at the discretion of ministers. The committee on climate change (CCC) was established by the Climate Change Act 2008, the first piece of legislation of its kind in the world.
United Kingdom | Climate Change | Economy | Governance | Policy The Conservatives were the designated defenders of tradition.Guardian Unlimited | 08 Feb 2011Attacks on woodland, the World Service and British heritage will leave voters outraged. Labour must not miss this chance. If there was one thing you could rely on in this fast-changing world, it was that the Conservative party would be conservative. Everything else might be upside down, but at least you could trust the Tories to defend those institutions that were timelessly and for ever British.
England | Forests and Woodlands | Governance | Policy U-turns on forest and nature reserves sell-off?Guardian Unlimited | 07 Feb 2011The government has ruled out selling England's nature reserves and looks like it is heading for a climbdown on its forestry sale. Can you make a U-turn before you've started your car? That's the question following the apparent climb-down by the government on changing the ownership of the publicly owned National Nature Reserves. And when is the best time to make a U-turn, once you have set off?
England | United Kingdom | Economy | Policy Could Oliver Letwin break deadlock?Guardian Unlimited | 01 Feb 2011Minister of state is proposing to set up the beleaguered bank 'off balance sheet', allowing it to trade in far bigger sums. One of David Cameron's closest cabinet colleagues is actively considering privatising the much-vaunted green investment bank (GIB) in order to allow it to trade in much bigger...
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