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EDF Energy welcomes the decision by the Office of Fair Trading to give merger clearance to the anticipated acquisition by Centrica from EDF Group of a 20% interest in British Energy. The OFT has concluded the transaction will not have an adverse effect on competition in any UK market.

The OFT decision is a key step in completing the proposed transaction but there are still other conditions that need to be met before we can finalise the deal.

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Should the world pay Ecuador not to extract oil? President Rafael Correa’s argument makes perfect economic sense.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is often dismissed as a radical leftist. Such has been the response to his proposal that the world pay him not to extract oil from Yasuni National Park in the western Amazon.

Yasuni is home to almost 850 million barrels of oil, or 20% of Ecuador’s reserves.

A closer look at Correa’s proposal reveals that it comes straight out of an economics textbook, and makes perfect sense.

Ecuador has a national income of $7,500 in purchasing power terms, and the top 20% of Ecuadorans have more than half that income. More than half of Ecuador lives on less than $2 per day.

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You don’t have to dig deep to avoid investing in companies that degrade the planet or displace indigenous people, says Lucy Siegle.

Despite frequent “assurances” of more self-regulatory initiatives than you could use to fill a redundant deep-cast gold mine, the resource-extraction industries continue to represent an epic blot on the landscape. And humankind largely continues to turn a blind eye to a charge sheet that includes dispossession of local inhabitants from their land, the degradation of soil and water, and the loss of biodiversity.

The irreversible loss of “genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats” is said by the great biologist Edward Wilson to be “the folly that our descendants are least likely to forgive us for”.

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Ofgem, the energy regulator, has demanded that Britain’s gas and electricity companies explain to customers why their energy bills have not fallen more sharply.

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Alistair Buchanan, the watchdog’s chief executive, has written an open letter saying the big six utilities “owe it to consumers to explain how falling wholesale costs are likely to bear on future energy bills”.

The utility companies have cut their prices by 10pc or less this year, after much sharper rises last year. “Wholesale costs have fallen from last year’s peak. In a strong competitive market, we would expect prices to respond,” Mr Buchanan wrote on the regulator’s website.

The Energy Retail Association, which represents power and gas suppliers, said last year’s price rises were not fully passed on.

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The UK is on track to meet the challenge of securing energy supplies both internationally and domestically, a new report commissioned by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown concluded today.

The report – ‘Energy Security: a national challenge in a changing world’ report – by the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on International Energy, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Wicks MP complements the actions set out in the recently published UK Low Carbon Transition Plan. It finds that many of the actions being taken to reduce climate risk also need to be sustained to tackle energy security.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the report and said:

“We are already taking a number of responsible far-sighted steps to put the UK on a secure, low carbon, affordable energy footing in the long-term and I am grateful for the work undertaken by Malcolm Wicks. The ability to maximise domestic energy reserves and establish home grown energy sources is vital alongside the UK’s ability to pull on every lever internationally in support of energy security.”
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