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16 May 2012
Gas Mk 4.4 million: Centrica, the company that owns formerly nationalised British Gas, has warned that rising bills will continue...
Hydro fracking, photo Creative Commons/ Mike Norton
2 May 2012
The government's fractured energy policy
A dangerous gas extraction practice - 'fracking' - will likely get government approval in Chancellor Osborne and energy secretary Ed Davey's new "dash for gas", writes Pete Mason, East London Socialist Party.
30 November 2011
The Tory solution to pensioner poverty?
The winter fuel allowance scandal: You will have heard of Good King Wenceslas. You may not have heard of his evil twin Bad King Wenceslas, writes Derek McMillan.
9 November 2011
Bonus bonanza: RBS, the bank that became synonymous with greedy speculative bankers (Fred 'the shred' Goodwin), huge corporate losses and publicly funded bailouts, has once again rewarded its top investment bankers with a £500 million pay and bonus pot...
12 October 2011
Ireland by-election: The death of former Fianna Fáil government finance minister, Brian Lenihan, has resulted in a by-election being called for the Dublin West seat of the Dáil
6 July 2011
Special relationship: A ten-foot high statue of former US president Ronald Reagan has been unveiled outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, London to cement US/British relations...
15 June 2011
Power profits: Scottish Power has dealt a body blow to its 2.4 million customers with a whopping 19% rise in gas prices and a 10% increase in electricity prices from August...
8 June 2011
End the 'insane' pursuit of oil profit
In parts of the USA you can set fire to your tap water. Now an enterprising company seems to want to bring the practice to Britain, writes Pete Mason.
3 March 2011
Energy rip-off: British Gas, the privatised energy giant, recently announced a 24% surge in profits in 2010. This was largely achieved on the back of screwing its customers with higher bills. Its parent company Centrica...
12 January 2011
'Big Oil' cuts corners on safety to boost profits
A PRELIMINARY report by the US National Commission (set up by president Barack Obama following the fatal Deepwater horizon oil rig blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico last April) has accused three companies - BP, Transocean and Halliburton - of cutting corners over safety in order to cut costs ie to boos...
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