Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

Global Warming

Posters show students are eco worriers

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THE GRAMMAR School put  its views on climate change to Education minister Carol Steere yesterday.

Energy providers welcome States policy decision

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GUERNSEY’S energy providers are eager to begin the workstreams that will shape the island’s future supply and consumption.

Smaller cars, bigger sales

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DRIVERS are swapping 4×4s for smaller cars due to the rising cost of fuel, according to the motor trade.

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‘Green tax is unfair’

PLANS to hit motorists with green taxes are purely revenue-generators, it has been claimed.

‘Greener choices will cost’

ENERGY costs will have to rise if the island is serious about tackling climate change, according to Guernsey Electricity managing director Ian Watson.

More pain under 5p green fuel tax

MOTORISTS and householders could be clobbered with green taxes under initiatives announced today.

‘Slash CO2 by 30% in 12 years’

GUERNSEY should cut its carbon emissions by 30% in the next 12 years, the Energy Policy Steering Group says.

Workshop drums home the recycling message

STUDENTS from St Sampson’s Secondary School drummed to the beat in preparation for last night’s Liberated Youth Concert.

What’s that in the pipe?

AS THE months passed and the Environment Department’s increasingly eccentric and business-unfriendly attitude started to emerge, we wondered back in February whether it had joined the curly pipe and sandals brigade.

Island fails to meet gas emissions target

GUERNSEY is failing to meet greenhouse-gas-emission targets.