Rishi Sunak is preparing to overturn a ban on building new onshore wind farms in order to prevent a revolt from members of his own Conservative Party. The Telegraphhas more.
Ministers are poised to unveil changes to planning rules that will free up councils to give the green light to proposed turbines where there is broad public support.
The move comes as MPs prepare to vote on the Government’s contentious Energy Bill on Tuesday after returning from their summer break.
A group of Tories is backing an amendment tabled by Sir Alok Sharma, the former Cop26 President, that would scrap the ban on new onshore wind.
It has attracted signatories from all wings of the party including Liz Truss, the former Prime Minister. Rebels are “confident” it is destined to pass.
Labour supports the proposal, which means only six more Tory backbenchers would need to vote in favour to overturn the Government’s majority.
The Telegraph understands ministers have been locked in talks with MPs for almost a week over a compromise deal to avoid a bruising Commons defeat.
Negotiations are set to continue on Monday as the final details are thrashed out, especially on how quickly the Government will be able to legally scrap the ban.
But plans are being drawn up for a minister to submit a written statement to the Commons this week committing to change the current planning rules.
Having secured the necessary guarantees, the rebels would then drop their amendment.
It would end the situation, which has been written into law since 2015, where an objection from just a single resident can prevent a wind farm from being built.
Government sources said the changes would allow councils to “more flexibly address the planning impacts of onshore wind projects as identified by local communities”.
One Tory MP who is supporting the amendment said No10 had little choice but to act, given it was supported by “senior people from all wings of the party”.
Another added: “It’s great to see ministers listening to concerns and, providing local communities are happy, it will make Net Zero easier and cheaper too.”
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Idiotic, yes. But are they idiots? Are these not the usual scheming, despicable grifters seeking to enrich and further their own interests in whatever way they can?
CHRIS
1 year ago
Each one of the latest versions is almost as tall as the GPO Tower. “England’s Green and Pleasant Land” no more.
Wholesale wind power is 8 times more expensive than wholesale gas. So we’re going to ruin the countryside AND pay a LOT more for our energy.
That is simply a fallacious argument as the economics depend on the application: cost of installing a connection vs cost of local battery storage; scale of application; maturity of technology; cost of delivering fuel to a specific location; risk from supply chain disruption (such as in the Russia – Ukraine war); solar / wind / water energy to be harvested at a given site. The solution is free market economics not socialist central planning of which technologies are to be favoured or subsidised and which banned. Wind power has been used by humanity for millennia, including over a thousand years as windmills, and still deserves its place in a market led approach to energy supply. By contrast, oil and natural gas are relative new-comers and their prices have been heavily manipulated by cartels since the days of Standard Oil, hence unsubstantiated claims about their relative cheapness really depend on the decisions of those cartels.
At this point in time wind power is 8 x more expensive, wholesale price, than gas. Here’s one of the reasons: For every MWH of wind turbine you install, you need exactly 100% of that capacity as 24/7 ready to go backup in the form of fossil fuel generation. So, you already have wildly expensive to build and maintain and replace wind turbines AND you have to keep conventional power stations fully manned and on standby, ready to go at a moments notice.
If the UK was to replace all of its energy needs with wind power it would require 360,000 wind turbines. The cost would be £49,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK and that cost would repeat every 20 to 25 years. The £49,000 for every man, woman and child would not include the cost of converting much of the electricity to hydrogen for transportation purposes. It would not include the cost of retrofitting the 90% plus of UK homes that don’t use electricity for heating. It would not include the cost of retrofitting all lorries, planes, boats for hydrogen use.
The Green Energy raping of the U.K.’s prosperity is already making the Fossil Fuel “Cartels”, as you call them, look like small time parking offenders.
I don’t think battery storage is relevant to wind though, is it? I know some people have it for domestic solar, but it’s not being used in commercial projects – or is it?
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Ah, say Tories, under Sunak we are rolling back all the green crap you so much dislike. Going well, is it?
Wind is a waste of financial capital and mineral resources. Low density, low EROEI and intermittent. The total opposite of what we need to run a modern economy.
Of course, innumerate, virtue signalling MPs love it. Are they stupid or corrupt?
People are entirely within the rights to invest their financial capital in what the choose. The less top-down wholesale bans, subsidies and wars to control oil and natural gas supplies the better.
On the one hand, yes they are, on the other, no it’s a bloody stupid plan to cover the country in non-recyclable expensive wind turbines that might or might not produce a trickle of energy. Short-sighted offerings to the god Net Zero.
Some are. At least the one around me is all privately funded, which is to say it is subsidised by advantageous credit access, but not directly through government grants.
So far.
Ineffective and harmful. How many other government narratives could those two words be applied to?
”Even as the West shoves its green climate agenda down the throat of the developing world, it itself keeps on exhibiting sheer hypocrisy as it seeks to widen its dependence on fossil fuels. In the latest instance, Germany is witnessing the dismantling of a large wind farm; only to expand a nearby open-pit lignite coal mine.
German energy giant RWE is undertaking the dismantling work in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia, where one wind turbine has already been dismantled. The company plans to weed out seven more to pave the way for an additional 15m to 20m tonnes of so-called ‘brown’ coal to be excavated.”
How does “where there is broad public support” work? As in: you voted for Councillor x, Councillor x now supports onshore wind farms, therefore you support onshore wind farms? The current review of enhancing local councils’ powers of compulsory land purchase, “to help the government meet its climate ambitions”, seems to be well-timed (again).
richardw53
1 year ago
Note that it is not a revolt from the membership of the Conservative party, but from the MPs who spend their lives closely closeted with a Civil Service that is utterly brainwashed on the issue. We need to drain the swamp.
I suspect the Conservative MP’s are closely cosseted by a squad of Klaus’s little helpers and deliveries of brown envelopes. Wink, wink, know what I mean?
They can install as many stupid turbines as they want but they are bugger all use when the wind isn’t blowing. I swear a lot of people haven’t really thought it through – headline capacity is a theoretical maximum so wind cannot realistically provide more than a limited % of our needs.
…or when it’s blowing too hard or producing ‘too much’ leccy. Temperamental little snowflakes, those unrecycleable turbine blades, you know.
As wind speed increases, the wind turbine will reach what is called its ‘rated speed’. This is the wind speed at which the turbine generates maximum electricity, and for a modern grid-scale wind turbine, this is about 25mph4(Beaufort Wind Force 6 – Strong Breeze).
In Scotland, UK, during the story winter months in 2020 there was so much wind power being generated that wind farms had to be shut down for weeks at a time.
Thanks. I didn’t know that but it makes sense. According to this: National Grid: Live (iamkate.com) and this: UK: installed wind power capacity 2022 | Statista the % utilisation of the maximum capacity was 30%. I suppose it’s possible that if you installed enough turbines to catch the wind all over the UK then you could have enough to meet all of our needs 24*7*365, but it might end up being a bit like trying to construct a life-size map of the world – you have to assume they’ve already stuck them in the windiest places.
Agreed. I live in a ‘bat corridor’ and when moving in was lectured on keeping outside lighting to a minimum so as not to disturb them. Yet they’re desperate to put meat grinders just up the hill, with the support of virtually all the local ‘conservation’ groups. Effing insanity.
One of the biggest wind turbine farms is getting pushed all around me in the part of Wales where I live. The local Conservative MP has been rallying against it, a pleasant surprise from a covidian.
I had thought it was unlikely to go through, even though I would personally benefit financially from these monstrous giant white elephants going up, I have been praying the pushback would be sending these plans to the scrapheap. But I know the amount of money already invested and the lobbying power the PE company has would slowly win out. I’m still hoping the financial collapse will come in time to make this unviable.
Anyway we know that the politicians will take this gravy train and as with all the other anti democratic net zero boondoggles, the general welfare of the citizens will be ignored and their voices rolled over, ULEZ style….
One of the more ironic installation areas is in South Wales, where there are quite a lot of them over the valleys. I’ve noticed that when travelling up and down the M4 west of Cardiff. Still a lot of coal deep down underneath them, more than likely.
Why do all of these politicians want to turn a beautiful country into a giant pin cushion? Will it save the planet? Will it bring cheaper electricity prices from all the “Free Wind”? Well Germany has about 40,000 wind turbines. Have they saved the planet? Have they got affordable electricity? —–NO NO NO NO. The very opposite is true. So what is really going on here? Who in their right mind wants to use thousands of 30 stories high Industrial turbines covering huge areas of land that will last about 12 years then be buried deep in the ground when you could have a couple of dozen Modern Nuclear Reactors tucked away in a corner somewhere? The answer is the Eco Socialist One World Government people trying to control the worlds wealth and resources with climate as the excuse. And our own UN lackey politicians are fully on board with this tyranny. Remember that wind only blows part time, so all wind turbines do is put proper energy solutions (fossil fuels) onto standby ticking over till the wind stops, which is often. Which makes a mockery of claims that wind is now cheaper than gas or coal. When you use wind you are also using mostly gas running in the background, all costing money. Have you ever wondered why bills are so high when we are supposed to be using all this FREE WIND?
Who in their right mind wants to use thousands of 30 stories high Industrial turbines covering huge areas of land that will last about 12 years then be buried deep in the ground when you could have a couple of dozen Modern Nuclear Reactors tucked away in a corner somewhere?
Easy answer: Large landowners seeking to profit from government subsidies. After all, farming the land is evil, rewilding it pointless but covering it with useless conrete structures can be used to make a handy sum from it.
At the beginning of the latest parliament I wrote to my newly-elected Conservative MP lobbying with a very short list of brief bullet points, one of which was to “Dump the Green Crap” and another was “Drain the Swamp”. I shall also lobbied him about the Lockdown. So far has shown no signs of doing anything other than following the party line on Climate, Lockdown and D, sometimes forward evasive letters from Civil Servants infesting The Swamp. I am now drafting an end of term report for him, requesting evidence of what he and his party have achieved, measured against my lobbying points. I suspect it will be “F” all round!
As far as our dear leaders go, I have tended to flip-flop beween them being mentally ill, or evil. I think I must now expand my categories to include ‘Mentally ill, AND evil’
Funnily enough look what I just found over at TCW. A perfect example of how our laws, even the legal system is simply abused as and when it suits. So when government spokesmen trot out “legally binding” let’s remember it us only legally binding if it suits the occasion.
allofusarefat
1 year ago
“Senior people from all wings of the party” supporting “Sir” Alok’s amendment – otherwise he may start blubbing again. Complete institutional capture, plus a range of widely appreciated ‘investment opportunities’?
Sunak pretends to be on the side of reason and progesss, but once again he has intentionally set himself up to fail. If our leaders actually wanted us to have a modern well developed economy utilising low carbon energy then they would have invested heavily in nuclear energy 20 years ago when all the net zero nonsence kicked off. CO2 is a proxy being used to dismantle the world as we know it and replace it with a new feudal system of elites traveling the world in their private jets and the rest locked in their 15 minute ghettos.
DomTaylor
1 year ago
Bans on new oil and gas facilities, bans on new windfarms, bans on nuclear energy, bans of biofuels, few daring to mention coal. Could the real goal may be energy dependency and nothing to do with the environmental impacts of the technologies concerned?
And an Education Secretary caught on hot-mike wondering why no-one ever says, “you know what, you’ve done a ****ing good job”. Happy to explain to her why that is, with crayons if necessary.
David Icke has never veered from referring to The Lizard People.
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Unsustainable development courtesy of the lying blaggers who are forcing us back to serfdom. Resist at every opportunity and don’t let county councils get away with this highly unnecessary and ruinous policy.
Well, I must say, Nut Zero really is going well….or not really:
‘Vattenfall said on Thursday it had suspended work on its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas site after a 40 per cent rise in the costs of the project, which the Swedish energy group intended as the first of three UK wind farms with a total investment of about £10bn-£11bn. “What we see today, it simply doesn’t make sense to continue this project,” said Vattenfall chief executive Anna Borg.
The company added that the increased cost was putting “significant pressure on all new offshore wind projects”. It said it would “not take an investment decision now” on Norfolk Boreas and would book an impairment charge of SKr5.5bn ($537mn). The move is a blow to the UK’s bid to more than triple offshore wind capacity by 2030 — from about 14GW to 50GW — to help decarbonise the country’s electricity system.’
Briefing note for anyone who might care to listen:
‘From the mechanic’s viewpoint, dramatic emissions progress can be made in a few relatively simple steps:
Do replace global coal power with natural gas, utilizing the trillions invested in existing infrastructure.
Rapidly (as possible) develop small, medium, and large scale nuclear power.
Convert that power into whatever you want – electricity for EVs, hydrogen for fuel-cells, etc. – to the extent that raw material availability allows.
Humans won’t revolt, and we’ll all get along quite well.
Don’t buy magic beans.’
Terry Etam August 2023
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago
Those things are monstrous to dispose of. You could even say that there is no easy disposal method. I’ve seen film of them where they are just left to rot close to where they fell. You need to snap out of the idea that these people give two hoots about the ecosystem. They poison it just like they poison our culture and minds and our bodies and they can do nothing else given their nature. You clean up your own mind and then you see this force for what it really is.
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago
A bloody menace we need to remove them forever. If you look into what they actually produce you would be shocked.
DevonBlueBoy
1 year ago
The same Alok Sharma who giggled when he blew up a coal fired power station and cried at COP 26? He must have some money invested in the unreliables industry no doubt. Or else he’s a effing halfwit.
The blight on the landscape is awful.
Maybe the location of these wind farms should be part of overturning this ban.
I suggest to place a wind farm close to the home of each MP who votes to overturn this ban…;)
marebobowl
1 year ago
Thank goodness these “wind” mills have a very short life span. No wind they don’t work, too much wind they have to be shut down. Even the dumbest of politicians knows this, I think
Kornea112
1 year ago
Follow the money! There is lots of money available to grease the ways but sadly that seems to be ever more the way today. C. Hitchens said we do not need Religion to act morally and ethically but those traits seem to have gone the way of the Churches.
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Effing idiots! Tories as well!
Not tories by any accepted metric- Lib Dumbs at best.
Idiotic, yes. But are they idiots? Are these not the usual scheming, despicable grifters seeking to enrich and further their own interests in whatever way they can?
Each one of the latest versions is almost as tall as the GPO Tower. “England’s Green and Pleasant Land” no more.
Wholesale wind power is 8 times more expensive than wholesale gas. So we’re going to ruin the countryside AND pay a LOT more for our energy.
That is simply a fallacious argument as the economics depend on the application: cost of installing a connection vs cost of local battery storage; scale of application; maturity of technology; cost of delivering fuel to a specific location; risk from supply chain disruption (such as in the Russia – Ukraine war); solar / wind / water energy to be harvested at a given site. The solution is free market economics not socialist central planning of which technologies are to be favoured or subsidised and which banned. Wind power has been used by humanity for millennia, including over a thousand years as windmills, and still deserves its place in a market led approach to energy supply. By contrast, oil and natural gas are relative new-comers and their prices have been heavily manipulated by cartels since the days of Standard Oil, hence unsubstantiated claims about their relative cheapness really depend on the decisions of those cartels.
At this point in time wind power is 8 x more expensive, wholesale price, than gas. Here’s one of the reasons: For every MWH of wind turbine you install, you need exactly 100% of that capacity as 24/7 ready to go backup in the form of fossil fuel generation. So, you already have wildly expensive to build and maintain and replace wind turbines AND you have to keep conventional power stations fully manned and on standby, ready to go at a moments notice.
If the UK was to replace all of its energy needs with wind power it would require 360,000 wind turbines. The cost would be £49,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK and that cost would repeat every 20 to 25 years. The £49,000 for every man, woman and child would not include the cost of converting much of the electricity to hydrogen for transportation purposes. It would not include the cost of retrofitting the 90% plus of UK homes that don’t use electricity for heating. It would not include the cost of retrofitting all lorries, planes, boats for hydrogen use.
The Green Energy raping of the U.K.’s prosperity is already making the Fossil Fuel “Cartels”, as you call them, look like small time parking offenders.
Also, how would the replacement turbines be built?
I don’t think battery storage is relevant to wind though, is it? I know some people have it for domestic solar, but it’s not being used in commercial projects – or is it?
Ah, say Tories, under Sunak we are rolling back all the green crap you so much dislike. Going well, is it?
Wind is a waste of financial capital and mineral resources. Low density, low EROEI and intermittent. The total opposite of what we need to run a modern economy.
Of course, innumerate, virtue signalling MPs love it. Are they stupid or corrupt?
“Of course, innumerate, virtue signalling MPs love it. Are they stupid or corrupt?”
Stupid, corrupt, thick and lazy.
EROEI ?
People are entirely within the rights to invest their financial capital in what the choose. The less top-down wholesale bans, subsidies and wars to control oil and natural gas supplies the better.
On the one hand, yes they are, on the other, no it’s a bloody stupid plan to cover the country in non-recyclable expensive wind turbines that might or might not produce a trickle of energy. Short-sighted offerings to the god Net Zero.
If I want to build a housing estate on my land I can’t just do it, can I?
Being stupid and corrupt are not mutually exclusive.
Tossers ! The lot of them !!…
Are these new wind turbines subsidy free?
Some are. At least the one around me is all privately funded, which is to say it is subsidised by advantageous credit access, but not directly through government grants.
So far.
So, not subsidy free at all.
Ineffective and harmful. How many other government narratives could those two words be applied to?
”Even as the West shoves its green climate agenda down the throat of the developing world, it itself keeps on exhibiting sheer hypocrisy as it seeks to widen its dependence on fossil fuels. In the latest instance, Germany is witnessing the dismantling of a large wind farm; only to expand a nearby open-pit lignite coal mine.
German energy giant RWE is undertaking the dismantling work in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia, where one wind turbine has already been dismantled. The company plans to weed out seven more to pave the way for an additional 15m to 20m tonnes of so-called ‘brown’ coal to be excavated.”
https://www.wionews.com/world/so-much-for-green-agenda-germany-demolishes-wind-farm-to-expand-coal-field-630602
And on that subject, you can see how much lignite is used there: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/conventional_power_generation/21.08.2023/28.08.2023/today/ Looking on the bright side, they might reuse the open cast sites for something else in the future, like the water park one I visited some years ago on the outskirts of Leipzig! It’s a bit like the Cotswold water park area where gravel pits have turned into lakes, south of Cirencester.
How does “where there is broad public support” work? As in: you voted for Councillor x, Councillor x now supports onshore wind farms, therefore you support onshore wind farms? The current review of enhancing local councils’ powers of compulsory land purchase, “to help the government meet its climate ambitions”, seems to be well-timed (again).
Note that it is not a revolt from the membership of the Conservative party, but from the MPs who spend their lives closely closeted with a Civil Service that is utterly brainwashed on the issue. We need to drain the swamp.
I suspect the Conservative MP’s are closely cosseted by a squad of Klaus’s little helpers and deliveries of brown envelopes. Wink, wink, know what I mean?
Destroying the planet with wind turbines and solar panels
Typo Fourth para.
They can install as many stupid turbines as they want but they are bugger all use when the wind isn’t blowing. I swear a lot of people haven’t really thought it through – headline capacity is a theoretical maximum so wind cannot realistically provide more than a limited % of our needs.
…or when it’s blowing too hard or producing ‘too much’ leccy. Temperamental little snowflakes, those unrecycleable turbine blades, you know.
As wind speed increases, the wind turbine will reach what is called its ‘rated speed’. This is the wind speed at which the turbine generates maximum electricity, and for a modern grid-scale wind turbine, this is about 25mph4(Beaufort Wind Force 6 – Strong Breeze).
In Scotland, UK, during the story winter months in 2020 there was so much wind power being generated that wind farms had to be shut down for weeks at a time.
https://energyfollower.com/why-do-wind-turbines-stop/?utm_content=cmp-true
Thanks. I didn’t know that but it makes sense. According to this: National Grid: Live (iamkate.com) and this: UK: installed wind power capacity 2022 | Statista the % utilisation of the maximum capacity was 30%. I suppose it’s possible that if you installed enough turbines to catch the wind all over the UK then you could have enough to meet all of our needs 24*7*365, but it might end up being a bit like trying to construct a life-size map of the world – you have to assume they’ve already stuck them in the windiest places.
It makes me sad to think how many birds and insects will be killed by these ‘meat grinders in the sky…’
Agreed. I live in a ‘bat corridor’ and when moving in was lectured on keeping outside lighting to a minimum so as not to disturb them. Yet they’re desperate to put meat grinders just up the hill, with the support of virtually all the local ‘conservation’ groups. Effing insanity.
One of the biggest wind turbine farms is getting pushed all around me in the part of Wales where I live. The local Conservative MP has been rallying against it, a pleasant surprise from a covidian.
I had thought it was unlikely to go through, even though I would personally benefit financially from these monstrous giant white elephants going up, I have been praying the pushback would be sending these plans to the scrapheap. But I know the amount of money already invested and the lobbying power the PE company has would slowly win out. I’m still hoping the financial collapse will come in time to make this unviable.
Anyway we know that the politicians will take this gravy train and as with all the other anti democratic net zero boondoggles, the general welfare of the citizens will be ignored and their voices rolled over, ULEZ style….
One of the more ironic installation areas is in South Wales, where there are quite a lot of them over the valleys. I’ve noticed that when travelling up and down the M4 west of Cardiff. Still a lot of coal deep down underneath them, more than likely.
Why do all of these politicians want to turn a beautiful country into a giant pin cushion? Will it save the planet? Will it bring cheaper electricity prices from all the “Free Wind”? Well Germany has about 40,000 wind turbines. Have they saved the planet? Have they got affordable electricity? —–NO NO NO NO. The very opposite is true. So what is really going on here? Who in their right mind wants to use thousands of 30 stories high Industrial turbines covering huge areas of land that will last about 12 years then be buried deep in the ground when you could have a couple of dozen Modern Nuclear Reactors tucked away in a corner somewhere? The answer is the Eco Socialist One World Government people trying to control the worlds wealth and resources with climate as the excuse. And our own UN lackey politicians are fully on board with this tyranny. Remember that wind only blows part time, so all wind turbines do is put proper energy solutions (fossil fuels) onto standby ticking over till the wind stops, which is often. Which makes a mockery of claims that wind is now cheaper than gas or coal. When you use wind you are also using mostly gas running in the background, all costing money. Have you ever wondered why bills are so high when we are supposed to be using all this FREE WIND?
Who in their right mind wants to use thousands of 30 stories high Industrial turbines covering huge areas of land that will last about 12 years then be buried deep in the ground when you could have a couple of dozen Modern Nuclear Reactors tucked away in a corner somewhere?
Easy answer: Large landowners seeking to profit from government subsidies. After all, farming the land is evil, rewilding it pointless but covering it with useless conrete structures can be used to make a handy sum from it.
Spot on.
Just when rising costs are making off-shore wind turbine projects uneconomic without further taxpayer subsidies. Coincidence?
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/offshore-wind-developers-hit-the-brakes-in-britain-20230720-p5dq2a
At the beginning of the latest parliament I wrote to my newly-elected Conservative MP lobbying with a very short list of brief bullet points, one of which was to “Dump the Green Crap” and another was “Drain the Swamp”. I shall also lobbied him about the Lockdown. So far has shown no signs of doing anything other than following the party line on Climate, Lockdown and D, sometimes forward evasive letters from Civil Servants infesting The Swamp. I am now drafting an end of term report for him, requesting evidence of what he and his party have achieved, measured against my lobbying points. I suspect it will be “F” all round!
As far as our dear leaders go, I have tended to flip-flop beween them being mentally ill, or evil. I think I must now expand my categories to include ‘Mentally ill, AND evil’
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/scottish-wind-farm-decision-shows-utter-contempt-for-the-public/
Funnily enough look what I just found over at TCW. A perfect example of how our laws, even the legal system is simply abused as and when it suits. So when government spokesmen trot out “legally binding” let’s remember it us only legally binding if it suits the occasion.
“Senior people from all wings of the party” supporting “Sir” Alok’s amendment – otherwise he may start blubbing again. Complete institutional capture, plus a range of widely appreciated ‘investment opportunities’?
“Sir” indeed. For what?
Sunak pretends to be on the side of reason and progesss, but once again he has intentionally set himself up to fail. If our leaders actually wanted us to have a modern well developed economy utilising low carbon energy then they would have invested heavily in nuclear energy 20 years ago when all the net zero nonsence kicked off. CO2 is a proxy being used to dismantle the world as we know it and replace it with a new feudal system of elites traveling the world in their private jets and the rest locked in their 15 minute ghettos.
Bans on new oil and gas facilities, bans on new windfarms, bans on nuclear energy, bans of biofuels, few daring to mention coal. Could the real goal may be energy dependency and nothing to do with the environmental impacts of the technologies concerned?
I think I remember a quote from somebody who said “Control energy and you control the world.” Might have been a Rockefeller.
” Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
— Henry Kissinger
Tories clearly have a death wish.
How any MP can imagine yet more unreliable and more expensive electricity supply and headlong rush to Nutty Zero is an election winner defies logic.
And they have an invertebrate as ‘leader’.
And an Education Secretary caught on hot-mike wondering why no-one ever says, “you know what, you’ve done a ****ing good job”. Happy to explain to her why that is, with crayons if necessary.
David Icke has never veered from referring to The Lizard People.
Unsustainable development courtesy of the lying blaggers who are forcing us back to serfdom. Resist at every opportunity and don’t let county councils get away with this highly unnecessary and ruinous policy.
Well, I must say, Nut Zero really is going well….or not really:
‘Vattenfall said on Thursday it had suspended work on its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas site after a 40 per cent rise in the costs of the project, which the Swedish energy group intended as the first of three UK wind farms with a total investment of about £10bn-£11bn. “What we see today, it simply doesn’t make sense to continue this project,” said Vattenfall chief executive Anna Borg.
The company added that the increased cost was putting “significant pressure on all new offshore wind projects”. It said it would “not take an investment decision now” on Norfolk Boreas and would book an impairment charge of SKr5.5bn ($537mn). The move is a blow to the UK’s bid to more than triple offshore wind capacity by 2030 — from about 14GW to 50GW — to help decarbonise the country’s electricity system.’
Hello? Anyone listening in Westminster/Whitehall?
Cue tumbleweed…..
Good luck with the election then…….
Briefing note for anyone who might care to listen:
‘From the mechanic’s viewpoint, dramatic emissions progress can be made in a few relatively simple steps:
Do replace global coal power with natural gas, utilizing the trillions invested in existing infrastructure.
Rapidly (as possible) develop small, medium, and large scale nuclear power.
Convert that power into whatever you want – electricity for EVs, hydrogen for fuel-cells, etc. – to the extent that raw material availability allows.
Humans won’t revolt, and we’ll all get along quite well.
Don’t buy magic beans.’
Terry Etam August 2023
Those things are monstrous to dispose of. You could even say that there is no easy disposal method. I’ve seen film of them where they are just left to rot close to where they fell. You need to snap out of the idea that these people give two hoots about the ecosystem. They poison it just like they poison our culture and minds and our bodies and they can do nothing else given their nature. You clean up your own mind and then you see this force for what it really is.
A bloody menace we need to remove them forever. If you look into what they actually produce you would be shocked.
The same Alok Sharma who giggled when he blew up a coal fired power station and cried at COP 26? He must have some money invested in the unreliables industry no doubt. Or else he’s a effing halfwit.
The blight on the landscape is awful.
Maybe the location of these wind farms should be part of overturning this ban.
I suggest to place a wind farm close to the home of each MP who votes to overturn this ban…;)
Thank goodness these “wind” mills have a very short life span. No wind they don’t work, too much wind they have to be shut down. Even the dumbest of politicians knows this, I think
Follow the money! There is lots of money available to grease the ways but sadly that seems to be ever more the way today. C. Hitchens said we do not need Religion to act morally and ethically but those traits seem to have gone the way of the Churches.
I’m so glad I decided NEVER to vote Conservative EVER again unless and until they turn back into a Conservative Party. These people are total idiots.