A MAJOR incident is to be declared at midnight as Jersey is set to be lashed by 100mph winds from Storm Ciarán.Heavy rain and strong winds began to hit the Island early Wednesday evening, with the storm set to rapidly intensify and peak between 3a.
Rowland HuelinONE of Jersey’s objectives must be power sovereignty, which put simply is to be 100% self-sufficient using local sustainable energy.Two recent developments are, therefore, greatly encouraging. However, I fear they are only going to so.
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Imports from French state utility EDF accounted for 95% of Jersey s electricity needs in 2019 of 614 GWh.
Girardin said France was ready to use . . . retaliatory measures under the UK-EU post-Brexit trade deal if the UK continued to apply new rules without informing the European Union.
In a statement to the AFP news agency, the French fisheries ministry said the UK had introduced new technical measures linked to licenses for vessels fishing off the Channel Islands which had not been communicated to the EU and were therefore null and void.