Miliband is set to be defeated on his opposition to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields. Humiliating…
Energy minister Michael Shanks is in Scotland today and will announce the results of the consultation on the two oil fields – which will set the precedent for future oil and gas production across the North Sea. The consultation on laws regarding greenhouse gas emissions is the result of a January ruling which claimed the projects were unlawful. It is expected to restart the approval process for them after pressure from Downing Street…
That process will take time and there is likely to be more internal fighting from anti-growth Ed. Miliband has called the Rosebank licence “climate vandalism” after all…
Rachel Reeves and the Treasury are pushing the hardest to change the rules and pave the way for more drilling projects to go ahead. DESNZ officials have already admitted that “low carbon technologies” are pushing electricity prices higher. It’s all ideology…
For 13% of last year the taxpayer was paying for wind farms to be switched off. The National Energy System Operator’s annual report shows the grid operator paid £2.7 billion to “balance” the electricity supply and keep the wind farms switched off. This is a record. Miliband is proposing to build far more in the South of England…
Wind farms have long been constructed outside of grid constraints and it is common for them to be “constrained off.” In those cases taxpayers are on the hook twice…
Neso said in its report: “Wind curtailment is currently a major driver of balancing costs. This is because a large proportion of wind capacity in GB is connected in Scotland, which at present is a constrained region of the network.” Those damned high summer winds are also blamed…
Analysis shows that had the UK continued with gas-power systems since 2006 consumers would be approximately £220 billion better off in 2025 currency. Chance would be a fine thing…
Greta Thunberg has recently landed in Paris CDG after being carted from the port at Ashdod to Tel-Aviv. This follows the sad flop of Thunderberg 2’s mission to break the Israeli sea blockade…
Thunberg refused to watch videos of the 7 October atrocities and was packed onto a commercial flight back to Paris. Flight, you say?
Guido had a look at the flight on which Greta was put – a Boeing 787-800. Which churns out 146.7 grams of CO2 per seat per mile…
From Ben Gurion to Charles de Gaulle airports you’re looking at over four hours in the air and 2043.3 miles travelled. That is 300 kilograms of toxic material emitted by Thunberg alone on the one flight back…
Greta immediately gave a press conference on her landing in France to claim she had been “kidnapped.” Will anyone think of the planet?
Not everyone will be happy with Labour’s announcement of £14.2 billion taxpayer funding – some of which was already allocated in the previous budget – to further develop Sizewell C. The local Labour MP has been increasingly vocal on the nuclear plant…
Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter’s constituency covers the plant. The new MP has been involved in numerous local actions against the development of the plant. In January Riddell-Carpenter wrote to developers after receiving pressure from the group ‘Together Against Sizewell C‘ in order to say the plant had to honour its “social valuable and charitable investments, employment opportunities and environmental actions.” While Riddell-Carpenter declined to say work should be halted entirely she said her priority was to “hold Sizewell C to account”…
That same anti-Sizewell group has today said it is “outraged” thanks to “the loss of thousands of trees and miles of hedging.” Separately Riddel-Carpenter spoke out against the plant just two months ago over concerns that incoming jobs would put pressure on the local housing market and in planning meetings she only expresses ‘concerns.’ Curiously the MP is due to attend a meeting with eco-loons Greenpeace – naturally strongly opposed to the project – next month on 5 July. Siding with the blockers…
A new report from Grayling Energy has torched any lingering belief that Ed Miliband’s pipe dream of net zero by 2030 is remotely achievable. Out of over 2,000 respondents, a solid 55% of the public say the clean power target is unattainable, while a paltry 9% strongly believing the target is achievable. Ed’s bluster about a carbon-free utopia is seen by the public as just more hot air…
A whopping 58% of Brits would back a delay to net zero if it meant dodging blackouts and soaring bills while, 61% say cutting energy costs should be the government’s top priority, more than double those who think decarbonisation comes first (just 25%). Shadow Scotland secretary Andrew Bowie said:
“Kemi Badenoch has been clear – the current Net Zero by 2050 is impossible. We must change course. We need a properly thought through approach, not more hot air from Net Zero nutters intent on leaving us all weaker, poorer and less secure.”
In Labour internal voices against Miliband’s agenda are getting louder…
Miliband’s pet project the “home grown energy company” GB Energy has no desks and no office of its own. Despite completing multiple hiring rounds…
GB Energy staff are instead based in DESNZ’s existing offices in Aberdeen on Huntly Street as well as in Edinburgh and Glasgow. An FoI release obtained by Guido specifies that “in Aberdeen, Great British Energy staff sit in existing space shared with other colleagues from the Department, and do not have a specific desk allocation.” In other locations there is also no desk allocation. Not that GB Energy boss Juergen Maier minds – his office is confirmed to be far away in Salford. Also sitting in departmental space…
As it recruits more staff DESNZ says it is “pursuing property options through the Government Property Agency which are currently under negotiation.” They don’t even need desks – GB Energy staff are only expected to come into the office 40% of the time…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”