Between the Broadsheets

The UK's greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 2% in 2007 compared with the previous year, according to provisional figures from the government. The country now emits 18% less than it did in 1990, well inside the Kyoto reduction target of a 12.5% cut, but critics argue that last year's drop is almost entirely due to energy companies burning less coal because it became more expensive - The Guardian

Centrica said yesterday that it was considering building Britain's first offshore gas storage facility for more than 25 years. The parent company of British Gas is teaming up with Gaz de France and First Oil to look at converting the partly depleted Bains gas field in the Irish Sea, close to Centrica's Morecambe Bay gas fields, into a storage unit - The Guardian