Labour’s climate zealotry is pushing Britain to jeopardise its foreign policy and global standing with a plan to burn biomass imported from North Korea’s dictatorship and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Putting their climate crusade above all else…
Naturally, Nigel Farage blasted the idea as “completely nuts”. In a push for biomass to play a “significant role” in decarbonising all sectors of the economy, a resource model published late this summer sets out a list of overseas sources of bioenergy, which includes a list of “improbable” – though not impossible – countries like North Korea, Afghanistan, Bhutan, and the Maldives. The Director of the Partnership for Policy Integrity Mary Booth slammed the “bonkers” scheme, pointing out the absurdity of potentially relying on these nations as major suppliers of agricultural and forestry biomass. Bending the knee to dictators in the name of Net Zero zealotry while Brits pick up the tab…
Biomass subsidies implemented by Chris Huhne are costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds and his favoured “carbon neutral” wood pellets are more damaging to the environment than coal, a damning study reveals today. But wait for it… The highly critical review of the disgraced former Energy Secretary’s policy was authored by his own former special adviser Duncan Brack. He now says the £450 million spent on biomass subsidies was a mistake:
“It is ridiculous…It’s not a good use of money. For any biomass facility that is burning wood for energy, unless they are only burning stuff like saw-mill residues or post-consumer waste, their activities will be increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere for decades or centuries. We shouldn’t be subsidising that.”
Anyway, what is Huhne up to these days now he’s out of the clink? He’s European Chairman of US firm Zilkha Biomass, who supply the very same wood pellets it turns out are so damaging to the environment. Fancy that! £450 million in subsidies literally up in smoke…
