It looks as if the UK government is allowing shale gas fracking companies to regulate themselves.
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The Lairds of Learning
How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?
Out of the Ashes
Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth.
Mutually Assured Depletion
The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.
The Moral Case for Nuclear Power
My response to Jonathon Porritt’s arguments – and to his highly personal invective.
Top Dollar
Why is Top Gear, alone among BBC programmes, allowed to keep breaking editorial guidelines?
Media Cleanse
How a group which claims to defend human rights turned into an apologist for genocidaires and ethnic cleansers.
How the Billionaires Broke the System
The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.
An Underground National Park
To prevent climate breakdown, we need to declare most of the fossil fuels in the earth’s crust off-limits.
Has-Beans
The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.
A Hippocratic Oath for Journalists
What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.
Jellyfish Rule
Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?
Nuclear Power Debate – The Film
Here’s the scorching debate I had with Doug Parr from Greenpeace and others last night.
Corporate Power? No Thanks
The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power.
Nuclear Power – The Big Debate
On Thursday 7th July, I’ll be thrashing out the issues with Greenpeace and others. Come along if you can.
Atro-city
As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.
Do As We Say, Not As We Do
My letter to Media Lens over the issue of the massacre at Srebrenica.
Peak Stupidity
Why was the Labour government telling two different stories about peak oil?
Naming the Genocide Deniers
The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse.
An Answer to the Meaning of Life
The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business.