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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes
Official Ofgem data shows millions of electricity and gas users in arrears for the first quarter of 2022
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Published in: Home: FeatureMinisters knew heating subsidy was paying billions to UK’s wealthiest
It’s costing taxpayers £23bn, disproportionately benefiting rich landowners, and may be little more than greenwash
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Published in: Home: InvestigationExclusive: MPs and landowners rake in energy subsidies as millions struggle
International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and members of the landed gentry are among those to benefit
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Published in: Home: FeatureOn energy strategy, the government is leaving women in the cold
Women will shoulder some of the worst effects of soaring energy bills. Why doesn’t the government’s energy security...
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Published in: Home: NewsEnergy suppliers’ websites down as customers rush to submit meter readings
A number of energy company websites are experiencing issues as customers scramble to submit meter readings
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Published in: Home: OpinionWe’re in an energy crisis. We can’t wait for Rishi Sunak any more
The UK’s desperately needed energy security statement has been delayed while the world burns and millions are...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisWhy Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement was tone deaf to the UK economic crisis
The chancellor helped out middle-income households, but left the poorest with just a fraction of the support they...
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Published in: Home: OpinionPutin isn’t to blame for fuel poverty in the UK – the government is
Britain has homes that are older, draughtier and harder to heat than anywhere else in western Europe. The poor are...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionForget Russia, blame the fossil gas industry for Europe’s energy supply crisis
Since 2014, Europe has become more dependent on fossil fuels from Russia. It didn’t have to be this way
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo tackle the cost of living crisis, we must end the Great British Rip Off
A major culprit of the ‘cost of living’ crisis is hiding in plain sight: an extractive economy that redistributes...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDiane Abbott: Cost of living crisis was caused by privatisation and austerity
Last year it was claimed that Boris Johnson had ended the age of austerity. Those claims now look ridiculously ill-judged
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK Big Six energy firms made more than £1bn in profit ahead of price hike
Exclusive: Analysis of most recent accounts shows huge profits as customers face soaring energy bills
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy is support for nuclear power noisiest just as its failures become most clear?
The UK government and mainstream media agree we need nuclear to avoid the worst climate change. They’re wrong – so...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationA green paradox: Deforesting the Amazon for wind energy in the Global North
A shift to wind energy is leaving a trail of destruction in Ecuador, with a brutal impact on Indigenous communities...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCosta Rica: Latin America’s climate champion
Costa Rica is a rare country whose efforts have been consistent with the Paris Agreement
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Published in: Home: NewsOil industry bigwigs given platform at COP26 despite organisers’ claims
Exclusive: UK government hosts said Big Oil companies wouldn’t be welcome, but BP’s CEO is among fossil fuel...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP calling for delay to UK climate action has banked £150k from oil firm
Former energy minister John Hayes, who has likened climate protesters to ‘Radical Islam’, has received a £50,000...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsMillions on pre-paid energy meters could face cut-off as prices soar
Unavoidable charges for gas and electricity threaten to tip many of Britain's poorest people into debt or destitution
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsOil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
Exclusive: Tories accused of being ‘worryingly close to fossil fuel’ industry as oil and gas companies line up for...
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Published in: Home: OpinionHonda going electric and ExxonMobil slumps: the clean energy tide turns
There’s some encouraging news, but stopping climate breakdown won’t lead to a fairer society without even more...