In a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs, the wind industry’s leading lobbyists have written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies for their companies are hugely increased.
The industry lobbyists claim that unforeseen rising costs now require three actions:
- A revision to the auction rules so that the winners are not determined by lowest bids but by an administrative decision that weights bids according to their ‘value’ in contributing towards the Net Zero targets.
- Special new targets and thus market shares for floating offshore wind, one of the most expensive of all forms of generation;
- A vast increase in the budget for the fifth auction (AR5) of Contracts for Difference subsidies, with an increase of two and half times the current levels for non-floating offshore wind alone;
Such changes, were the Government to agree to them, would not only increase the total amount of subsidy to an industry that was until recently claiming no longer to need public support, but also provide the industry with protected shares of the energy market, eliminating risks for investors at the expense of the paying public. It would also clearly be an open invitation to corruption.
Climate lobby group Net Zero Watch has urged the Government to stand up for consumers by rejecting the wind industry’s latest demands.
Dr. John Constable, Net Zero Watch’s Energy Director, said: “It would be both absurd and counterproductive for Government to bail out the wind industry in spite of the evident failure to reduce costs. A refusal to learn from mistakes will be disastrous.”
In a press release, the organisation argued the Government should “reject the self-serving demands” because the U.K. economy should not be expected to continue to subsidise a sector “that is still uneconomic after nearly 20 years of above-market prices and guaranteed market share”.
“The wind experiment has failed and must be wound down,” it adds.
The Government should also be mindful that U.K. households and businesses are already experiencing extreme pressures on budgets, and a further burden on the energy bill should not be tolerated, it says.
This is particularly the case as the wind industry’s current cost difficulties are “neither unforeseen nor unpredicted but have been obvious to careful observers for over a decade”.
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This evil must be stopped.
The Government will not stop this. Parents have to fight back. Home school individually or in groups. Or, perhaps form groups and demonstrate outside the school and name and shame the heads of those schools for the perversion of their children. Make the head teachers lives hell upon which they will approach their unions for help. The unions will then either do nothing with the result of head teachers resigning, sick leave etc causing headaches for the educational authorities to remedy the situation or the unions may put pressure on the goverment to reconsider ‘identity’ lessons. Take a leaf out of the Left activism book and turn it against the progressives.
And whilst doing this join centre right challenger parties whose manifesto state they will halt this state perversion of children.
I agree wholeheartedly; as with the schools allowing children under the age of majority to take part in protests where illegal acts are committed, even if High Plod Rowley disagrees, this is a Child Safety issue. Adults who sanction this, who have had to undergo a high level Disclosure and Barring Service vetting in order to go to work should be reported by their Heads ( unless they agree ). The Chair of Governors of these schools are equally responsible for these minors being exploited in this horrendous manner.
But that is in a world in which we do not inhabit; home schooling is the obvious answer but only if a parent can undertake this responsibility …. and for those families who cannot, what a Catch 22 this is.
Where is the safeguarding for these children? Are these private providers checked? Are they allowed access to the children alone? Are they given access to the children’s private data and contact details.
Saviles, Epsteins, Blairs etc. of the world rejoice! Worth watching the whole No Outsiders promo video of which the Teddy is an extract.
https://youtu.be/CIH7I_SEU0E
Shush we can’t say paedophiles have infiltrated primary schools because that would offend the paedophiles.
Ah yes, bless their little cotton socks. They’re so persecuted. They must be free to explore their perversions.
(To be clear, this is sarcasm, just in case it wasn’t obvious)
“Minor attracted persons”, please!
No Outsiders boss Andrew Moffat wrote: “This teaching must begin in primary schools. We are all intersectional; one identity does not suffice to make up who we are.”
IMHO, the appropriate place for this person is a mental asylum the moments he starts to make a nuisance of himself and certainly not an elementary school where he can freely preach to really young children lacking the mental capacity and experience necessary for assessing the value of his statements. Children which aren’t yet sexually mature obviously don’t have an idea what being a man or a woman actually means. And this deranged would-be pied piper shouldn’t have an opportunity to exploit this.
Words fail me, can’t kids just be kids?
They’ll work out the rest in due corse!
I did.
Target the school governors of the schools that allow this.
If you don’t want your children indoctrinated with this nonsense, home-school them.
Horrendous teacher!!! I see this as child abuse. I would home school if this happened.
Run away to a place they won’t find! is never the solution. Should these people find themselves dispossessed of a sizeable number of vulnerable pupils to exploit, they’ll find a way to make this illegal to Save the children!