It is Chris Stark’s last day on the job as Chief Executive of the net zero crusading organisation the Climate Change Committee – a publicly funded body which spent £4,541,779 in taxpayer money in the year 2021-2022. It seems his mission to fight climate change has extended outside the realms of just being the chief climate adviser to the government. Last month, Stark was advocating for heat pumps made by the private company Kensa…
In his pitch on behalf of the private company, Stark says this:
“We need a form of heat pump that will work for the people living in those buildings…Kensa I think have some of the most exciting technology and innovative approaches to how we might approach this challenge of buildings decarbonisation.”
There’s no mention of the Kensa group on Stark’s registered interests. A Stark conflict?
It is Earth Day and Guido is reminded of all the posturing big firms have done to spin their green credentials. Branson’s non-existent $3 billion pledge to tackle climate change, businesses jetting their executives to COP28 in Dubai to sign a letter telling governments to spend more taxpayer cash on net zero. Luxury fashion brand Burberry managed to come up with something called “climate positivity“, including reaching “near zero” and was duly named “Climate Leader” in the “Finance for the Future Awards” in 2021. Burberry loves Earth Day. How disappointing, then, for Guido to see the company’s swanky Westminster office with its lights on full blaze as he walked past at 4:00 a.m. recently. The climate-obsessed company must know that lighting accounts for 40% of an office’s electricity costs. How many Burberry staff does it take to turn off a lightbulb?
Climate Resistance launched their “stop polluting politics” campaign yesterday by waving an oil-pigment saturated banner from Westminster bridge, and polluting the air with flares. The irony.
The group, who may have as many as a dozen supporters, hope to ban oil and gas companies from meeting politicians, the aim is to make the energy companies that power industry and our lives political pariahs. Energy policy is critically important, it literally keeps the lights on.
The group has a host of other left-wing poses such as waving Palestinian flags. Nothing screams opposition to the malign influence of oil on politics like promoting an Iran-backed regime whose leadership live in luxury hotels in Qatar. The group tweets climate doom and on “the influence of dark money on politics”. Who are these slick new paragons of transparency in public life? We don’t know. Their website says neither who they are, nor who funds them.
Which may be wise given they have otherwise libellously and untruthfully stated that “Shell, BP, Equinor and others are donating to parties… to push their agenda”. A junk claim easily checked on the public electoral commission donations website. The net donations from all three to politicians or political parties is £0.
Yet another Just Stop Oil spin-off group called “Youth Demand” has turned up to the Labour Party HQ on Rushworth Street this afternoon to spray red paint on the outside as well as in the lobby and hold up banners saying: “Labour and Tory: Genocide Enablers“. The extra branding decor is in line with Just Stop Oil’s new policy – to give the Tories a break and harass Labour…
One of the painter-decorators, naturally a student at Oxford, says: “Young people will not stand by and watch Kier [spelt incorrectly] Starmer allow mass murder by selling weapons to Israel and allowing the development of new oil and gas.” At least they got the right building this time…
UPDATE: 11 protestors have been arrested.
It was only a matter of time until British farmers followed their friends in the EU’s footsteps and descend into protest against strict eco-zealous rules and competition of cheaper imports. Last night, over 150 tractors took to the streets of Westminster to rally against net zero restrictions that restrict their wallets. The protest was a slightly more civilised affair than those in Brussels…
Thousands turned up to show their support for the farmers, including Nigel Farage. Meanwhile, protests against ULEZ were going on at the same time. There seems to be a running theme: costly environmental restrictions are not too popular with the people…
Everyone is asking “Where’s Ed?” this morning after shadow Wales minister Jo Stevens was tasked with talking up Labour’s “Great British Energy” nationalised plans instead of the party’s green spokesman shadow cabinet minister. Rumour has it Starmer’s team has forced Ed into hiding…
On Thursday last week Miliband visited Morecambe and decided to snub the two nuclear power stations, the area’s largest employers, turning up instead to struggling engineering firm Balltec. The firm provides its services to, you guessed it, oil and gas firms. Balltec boasts that it provides “unrivalled engineering products and experience in the global oil & gas sector” and most recently worked for BP on large-scale oil extraction projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Is LOTO playing an extended prank on green Ed?
