References
- New Year 2009 issue:
1 http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/energy/whitepaper/page39534.html
(site for now) - Meeting the Energy Challenge, White Paper, DTI, 2007. See also
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/308357/Dutch+connection.htm.
2 http://www.off-grid.net/2008/12/19/uk-brown-outs-looming/
- see also Parliamentary 'Business &
Enterprise Committee' report on energy policy, http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/BECReport.pdf
3 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/utilities/article5404061.ece,
Times, 28.12.08
4 http://www.aepuk.com/need_info.php (2004 figures). Our ballpark calculation in 2008: if the 2GW cross-channel link worked at full pelt in
one direction night & day, it would theoretically supply only a
notional 17,520 GWh - only 4.46% of our annual
consumption. On 9.9.08,
Open Europe briefly reported proposals to build a new 'megacable'
to connect the electricity grids of
5 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/heat-threatens-safety-of-nuclear-reactors-as-france-girds-for-electricity-rationing-589601.html,
Independent, 11.8.03. See also http://uk.reuters.com/article/UK_SMALLCAPSRPT/idUKL1940260720080219,
Reuters, 19.2.08
6 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/23/solarpower.windpower,
Guardian, 23.7.08
7 http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/piebalgs/biofuels-and-food-%e2%80%93-regaining-a-sense-of-proportion
reviewed in http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3780, 29.3.08
Telegraph, 10.1.09. See also Sunday Telegraph, 21.12.08, for claims on wind
turbine yield.
9 "Securing our Energy Future", from http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/4942#comments_top
9.1.09.
The European Commission published its Second Energy Review (SER-2) Nov
2008; cf. SSER Action Plan COM(2008) 744
10 http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-crisis-another-opportunity.html,
9.1.09
See also
Daily Express, 9.1.09, http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/79059/EU-will-grab-Britain-s-gas
11 Treaty of
Nice, Article 154
12 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5458245.ece, 7.1.09
13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
14 http://www.newsweek.com/id/81557, 22.12.07
15 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/17/climatechange-edmiliband
16 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/red-tape-strangles-whitehalls-plans-to-boost-green-energy-1066084.html,
Independent on Sunday, 14.12.08
17
http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/programmes/docs/clwp2009_en.pdf
and http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/programmes/docs/clwp2009_roadmap_priority_initiatives_en.pdf,
COM(2008) 712
18
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/corus-we-will-quit-eu-to-avoid-carbon-regime-1065639.html,
Independent on Sunday, 14.12.08
19
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/era-of-cheap-energy-will-never-return-1232059.html,
Independent , 8.1.09 - see also
Parliamentary 'Business & Enterprise
Committee' report on energy policy, http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/BECReport.pdf
on prices, and http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/article5374852.ece,
Sunday Times 21.12.08
20 http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1103790/Russia-accuses-Ukraine-stealing-gas-raising-fears-UK-Europe-left-cold.html,
Mail on Sunday site, 2.1.09 (datestamp is a Friday!)
21
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/weak-pound-adds-more-than-1633bn-to-britains-eu-bill-1224486.html, Independent, 4.1.09
22 http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2009/01/sarkozy-to-bani.html,
Times, 7.1.09. See
also http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-goes-to-war-with-napoleons-legal-legacy-1230058.html,
Independent, 7.1.09 - “Professor Didier Rebut, one of
23 EU Green
Paper “The Presumption of Innocence”, COM(2006) 174
final. Search on: com2006_0174en01.pdf
24 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/17951/Brown-s-new-tax-on-all-our-houses, Express,
2.9.07
25 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4092124/Super-councils-given-power-to-impose-road-taxes.htmlTelegraph , 5.1.09, Local Democracy, Economic
Development and Construction Bill being debated
26 www.lga.gov.uk/lga/aio/808524
27 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/08/703&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en, Memo/08/789,
16.12.08