RSSEnergy and Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne admitted the massive expansion of wind farms across Britain – along with clean coal power stations – will send electricity and gas prices soaring. But Mr Huhne claimed that the price increases would be offset by government plans to improve the energy efficiency of millions of British homes. [...]
Companies including Tata Steel Ltd. and GrowHow U.K. Ltd. may leave the U.K. as climate-protection policies boost electricity and natural-gas costs. Factories will pay 18 percent to 141 percent more for gas, electricity and carbon-reduction programs by 2020, adding about 7 million pounds to the bill for a typical large energy consumer, the London-based Energy-Intensive [...]
…But one forgets: the election gave us a Coalition, not a Tory, victory. Energy policy is in Liberal hands. Through all the long years that they were remote from power, the Lib Dems could be as green as lettuces, and limper. If they imagined that Britain would become a nation of yurt-dwelling Hobbits, it didn’t [...]
BRITAIN faces years of blackouts and soaring electricity bills because of the drive toward green power, a leading energy expert warned last night. A growing obsession with global warming and “renewable” sources threatens the stability of our supply. Derek Birkett, a former Grid Control Engineer who has a lifetime’s experience in electricity supply throughout Britain, [...]
Britain’s biggest wind farm companies are to be paid not to produce electricity when the wind is blowing. Telegraph.co.uk: Firms paid to shut down wind farms when the wind is blowing Via MEP Roger Helmer on Twitter - Money Week: The government subsidy paid for each of Britain’s wind turbines last year was £138,000
It may seem the ultimate irony in the age of environmentalism, but genetic modification – still anathema to many activists – could provide a sustainable solution to the problem of how to provide a reliable supply of clean energy. And, to reinforce the contribution which new technologies can make to environmental issues, nanotechnology may also [...]
Ruth Lea – a leading economist who recently spoke at the TPA’s post-Budget briefing – and Jeremy Nicholson – Director of the Energy Intensive Users’ Group – have released a new report for Civitas about the impact of climate change policies on industrial employment. The report makes a number of very important points. First, climate [...]
David Cameron’s father-in-law is among rich landowners cashing in on Labour’s green subsidies, with a wind farm generating an estimated £3.5million a year on his country estate. Sir Reginald Sheffield, 63, who is worth at least £20million, splits the profits with the project’s developers. Around half of the income comes from a government scheme [...]
Nissan has announced that the first mass-produced all-electric car in Europe is to be built at its Sunderland factory in the UK (the third production site, after Japan and the USA ). It is to be called the Leaf, a suitably green name, but possibly an unfortunate one in the event of problems. The company [...]
Some of Britain’s most beautiful landscapes have been blighted by wind farms for only small returns in energy, research shows. The analysis of power output found that more than 20 wind farms are operating at less than one-fifth of their full capacity. Experts say many turbines are going up on sites that are simply not [...]
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New Booker Book: The Real Global Warming Disaster
Christopher Booker has a new book out entitled: The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The Obsession With `Climate Change` Turning Out To Be The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?
Available from Amazon UK here:
More from Booker himself here. (1)
Why the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are Not Collapsing
Read the AIG News paper here. (1)
Global Warming Ate My Data
We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests.
The Register (3)
Climate Depot's Arctic Fact Sheet
Climate Depot Arctic Fact Sheet (for additional updates on the Arctic see new articles tagged Arctic) (0)
