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Opinion:

¶ “Larsen C breakoff could have ‘dire consequences'” • A massive piece of an ice shelf in West Antarctica is poised to break off any day now, creating an iceberg the size of the state of Delaware. The possible collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf has scientists worried. Why? Expert John Abraham explains – and speaks out about Trump. [Deutsche Welle]

Larsen ice shelf

World:

¶ An $8 million wind and solar farm has been announced in Western Australia by Advanced Energy Resources in conjunction with GMA Garnet. The construction of a 3-MW wind and solar farm with battery storage will supply electricity at a GMA Garnet mining location about 120 km from the nearest electric grid substation. [Energy Matters]

¶ The world’s first commercial-scale floating wind farm, which will be sited 25 km off the coast of Scotland, is nearer to being a…

Certainly they may have been hacked. However, reading through the information below it appears clear that there are plenty of weak links through French owners-contractors with interests in Russia, who appear to be losing/have lost business due to sanctions. So it could have been a leak or intentional failure of the contractors to adequately secure, or simply incompetence. Additionaly, former BP CEO Lord Browne is a potential weak link within the British government. There are probably others within the British government itself.

Why did Britain hand its nuclear power stations (EDF), its nuclear security and even its government cybersecurity (Thales) to French companies anyway?

French Thales seems to be involved in a “cloud” for sensitive UK government information and “currently provide secure end-to- end networks to the UK Government and advise on a number of security related matters…” (UK.Gov; see more further below)

“Hackers trading passwords used…

Anthropogenic earthquakes in the UK: A national baseline prior to shale exploitation
Wilson et. al. Marine and Petroleum Geology 68 (2015) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817215300751

Appendix A. Supplementary data
Table 2. Subdivision of 1769 onshore events with ML ≥ 1.5 into natural (green), anthropogenic (coal mining – red, fracking – orange, geothermal – pale blue, potash mining – dark blue) and undetermined origins (purple). Supplementary material held online.http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0264817215300751-mmc1.xlsx

CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Marine and Petroleum Geology 68 (2015) 1-17