Rishi Sunak has been urged to shut down Britain’s gas network and spend billions on rolling out heat pumps, in a major intervention by the country’s infrastructure tsar. Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), also recommended that cities ban all private vehicles. The Telegraph has more.
Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), warned that the supply of natural gas to all buildings must stop by 2050 if the U.K. is to hit its climate targets.
He is urging the Prime Minister to commit to a total ban on gas boiler sales by 2035, and to set out how the national gas network will be shut down gradually over the next 27 years.
The intervention came as a cold snap sent the U.K.’s demand for gas surging to a peak of 135 million cubic metres on Monday – the most since February this year and the largest in an October since 2021.
In the national infrastructure assessment, the NIC says heat pumps are the only viable alternative to heat homes en masse and that millions of households should get subsidies worth more than £6bn to encourage their adoption.
It called for £1.3bn a year to be spent on heat pumps for poorer homes and £1.9bn on grants worth £7,000 each for other homeowners to buy the devices. A further £3.2bn a year should be spent on energy efficiency and heat pump installations for social housing, the NIC said.
The assessment dismisses calls for hydrogen to be piped into homes for heating and cooking, arguing it will saddle consumers with massive extra costs.
It says: “Gas boilers need to be phased out and replaced by heat pumps. There is no public policy case for hydrogen to be used to heat individual buildings. It should be ruled out as an option.”
The Government pushed back against the findings, insisting that the gas network would “always be part of our energy system” and that it was still exploring what role hydrogen will play.
Other recommendations in the NIC assessment include a call for cities to ban all vehicles except buses and taxis to cut rush-hour congestion.
Cloud cuckoo land, obviously. But most of our politicians are so far down the climate Armageddon rabbit hole that they can’t think straight and swallow this barmy nonsense wholesale. Sunak seems to be attempting some kind of resistance to the worst extremes – if only because there’s an election coming – but he’s only scratched the surface so far. And what eco-warrior Ed Miliband will do should he obtain office next year I shudder to imagine.
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Armitt is 77 and will probably be long dead by 2050.
Once dead he won’t have any problem staying warm, unlike the rest of us.
Especially in hell
As in 77th Brigade?
But look at what he’s doing for the good of us all. Well, apart from the so called 3rd world nations whose development and populations will be royally f****d by having to adopt climate change diktat.
Never a shred of doubt in his soul that he might, just might, actually be wrong. Such a virtuous man
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/08/settled-science-shock-earth-temperatures-rise-ahead-of-co2-emissions-say-scientists/
But the point is that developing countries will not adopt this madness. Rather they will continue to us e and consume fossils fuels while they laugh at the UK and the collective West immiserating themselves chasing a pointless and unachievable goal . This is just pure bloody madness and the UN Agenda 2030 is behind all this .
If they don’t their leaders will be bumped off in mysterious circumstnce, maybe like those who refused to accept the Covid/Vax hoax.- (allegedly) –
Moise – Haiti
Magufili – Tanzania
Bakayoko – Ivory Coast
Dlamini – Eswatini/Swaziland
Nkuranzinza – Burundi
That said, the omnipotent Factcheckers say it’s just, well, a conspiracy theory . So there.
No comeback for the real PTB, after all they’re onlyAfricans are they not .(Haiti apart)
Anyone who puts a cross in an establishment party box is a witting supporter of AGW, authoritarianism and population replacement. We all have the choice at all elections to spoil our papers or vote for the centre right challenger parties whose manifestos state they will scrap net zero targets and they will pull out of the treaties and conventions that stall the removal of illegals.
Is it my imagination, or is this guy the spitting image of an SS Lagercommandant circa 1945?
Achtung! “Don’t mention the war Mr Fawlty.“
I hate these people so much. Very tiring.
That article the other day about having to dunk electric cars in water baths to set fires out. I had to read it twice to check that it wasn’t a spoof. Clown world in all its glory.
New bath on order – to be fitted next Tuesday.
Got to be ready for when I can afford an EV – which will be almost never.
The most gas in October since 2021?
So 2 years then.
Last year was recognized as a mild winter so it doesn’t seem so dramatic when you think about it
“Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC), also recommended that cities ban all private vehicles.”
Hold on, I am sure that was a right-wing conspiracy theory a while back wasn’t it?
What the effing hell is the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and WTF do they think they are? Have they got any Science to back up these demands or is it just The $cience?
Has a cost benefit analysis been conducted which would examine how society would function if these mad plans were instituted?
Surely this prick isn’t wallowing in Co2 and all the rest of the fake storyline?
I pho#king despair with these idiots and at 77 years old he should STFU or accept he must be sent to a Hancock care home for double M treatment.
I do not think the economic consequences are part of their remit. Besides, politicians and their chosen advisers have assured us renewable energy is or soon will be cheaper than other sources of power. And that was said when those other sources were not laden with levies and taxes to, err, subsidise the cheaper renewable ones.
“Cost benefit analysis”….This is post 2020. They don’t bother with all that rubbish!
Citizen Khan didn’t bother for ULEZ – but he did it in his head – “How do I avoid being the only London Mayor to bankrupt the public transport system – hah, easy, make sure the poor have to pay to use it and fine them for not using it with ULEZ.“
The National Infrastructure Commission needs to get some Precision Guided Munitions delivered to it during their next meeting.
Love it.
Well I bet he charms the birds out of the trees! Another madman spouting mad nonsense designed to impoverish us. Where do they all come from? There seems to be a never ending supply of them. I won’t even bother to come up with all the usual arguments. What’s the point? You all know what’s real anyway.
Who the **** is John Armitt and why does he have any say whatsoever on how I have to live my life?
We seem to be encountering quite a few of these random individuals who seem to think they have the right to tell people how to live their lives.
How about I come down to John Armitts house and start instructing him on things he has to do?
The nerve of these assholes.
He was elected by WEF – they voted to put a few quid in the pockets of activists to pressure the cowards in government.
[IMHO]
And don’t forget to do what the LGBT crowd did when Thatcher was shutting down the miners’ unions – take the insults and adopt them as a badge of pride.
It worked for them.
So here goes:
#conspiracytheoristnutter
#tinfoilhatter
#climateloondenier
He is a Knight of the Realm so he has every right to impoverish us – or so he thinks.
We had another guest present to us yesterday at MD4CE who talked about the historical similarities of what is happening in the financial world with the events of the 1920s & 1930s. The parallels are frightening, but knowing what is happening can help one prepare for it.
The closing down of infrastructure is all designed to impoverish & kill, same as happened in the 1930s, reduce the value of assets over a longer term period of time & is all about control. His short presentation with Q&A after is interesting.
https://rumble.com/v3q2gj5-david-webb.html
It is the same old nonsense. Trust me this ignorant sap would gladly accept fossil fuels in his house if he was freezing to death. Sometimes you just need to give people a slap around the face. We can all act like nancyboys when we have nothing to worry about but the moral of the story is that we need to be eternally vigilant no matter how good things get. There is no dropping your masculinity and chilling out in women’s clothes. Why would you even want things to be easy anyway given that our spirit long to engage and fight.
Have a laugh reading the NIC’s assessment. These people seem to live in a different country where it’s always sunny and windy. They are 100% indoctrinated to believe and recommend that our wonderful gas heating must come to an end and the incredible heat pumps will take its place. I doubt Sir John will be freezing his ass off though although that face might just freeze small animals and humans. Anyway, the comedy script is here for those who want a real good old laugh…
https://nic.org.uk/studies-reports/national-infrastructure-assessment/second-nia/#tab-netzero
Since the mid 1970s there have been yearly news reports about how 30,000 old people die of hypothermia every year. We are one of the most energy rich countries in the world we could’ve easily solved this by 1971. You imagine yourself as a leader and you can’t even keep your old people warm. In warrior society you would be hounded out or destroyed.
Heat pumps will not be affordable to buy, run, or maintain for the majority of the population, nor do they work well enough to actually provide adequate heating! Lots of people in rural Scotland fell the hype and the incentive bribes 10 years ago. Some households in “fuel poverty” had their heating systems replaced, at taxpayer expense (probably in excess of £30000 per house, ie same cost as 15 to 30 years of oil for a boiler costing £1000!!!). Their heating bills went up, as most pumps never achieve their advertised coefficient of performance, and their houses never really got warm. Heat pumps are not like a fridge that works for 20 years with no interference. Things broke, circuit boards fried, nothing was maintained properly as the installers tended to vanish like a snowball in hell. The circuit boards seem particularly susceptible to mains surges, which you get a lot of with all these renewables connected to the grid. Most of these systems have now failed, or have cost a fortune in replacement parts. If you live in a house with no other form of heating, installing a heat pump will be an expensive, disastrous folly.
If someone turns up at your door bearing gifts or there is a media blitz most people are going to fall for it. That is just the fabric of reality. These are short to medium term economic tools to screw the last pennies out of people while they still have a few. There is a fundamental sordid reality that has to be understood in terms of our system at thisitime and they call it ‘inflate or die’. Just unpack it in your own mind you will see why it has to be like this at this stage of the game. At base it is a confidence trick and if we have any hope at all it starts with calling out this trick. It is difficult given that we were the co-creators of these mechanisms or at least we said nothing while the going was good.
To move away from characters like this one requires a new mythos. Do you have the energy to prjoect a new mythos? Maybe you do. It it something that we have to try. Nothing is forced just an abiding love of our islands and a way of passing through this. We will see if there are enough Englishmen up to the task. A friend of mine came back to England a couple of years ago from Sweden and he said that England is running out of Entglishmen.
You have to understand the entire situaion of the last seventy years in order to be able to contextualize anything. Our overlords don’t know much about it but it behoves us to undrstand it completely if we are to be the antidote. On the deeper level that is all it takes – if this force sees us as strong enough to resist. We need to remind them that we stand for something much higher.
We get up tomorrow morning and instead of making a cup of tea we dig an enormous hole in our back garden. And go from there. Gurdjieff taled about the will- he said that imagine you walked home for twenty miles and then you arrived safely home. A real effort of will would be to go out on a five mile walk when you are exhausted. I am not saying anything to anyone just to let you know that the path backards is a hard one. We have all been very softened. So I would say just get used to the hard life once again. That’s what makes us human.
If Parliament passes laws to enforce Net Zero the legal basis for resisting such reports is inevitably thin. If the government follows up by appointing Quangos, NGOs and advisers who are politically committed to the green, anti-capitalist agenda (like so many other such bodies), what advice would you expect to receive.
Remember which party has been in government since 2010 during which period this has all evolved. It is no use Tory sympathisers trying to excuse it by pointing out that much of the legislation was enacted by the previous Labour governments or ordered by Brussels. The Tories were enthusiastic supporters of the legislation and they have appointed many of the Wuango members over 13 years.
Wuango? You are creating portmanteau words now.
Spot on! The Tories are following exactly the same orders that Labour will follow when in power. The Tories are just more accomplished liars.
So what happens now?
Both EVs and Heat Pumps have now shown that they fall lamentable short of being capable of delivering anything like the current transport/heating requirements for most UK households. And so this begs the question as to where this all goes from here?
Is the population of the UK going to meekly accept a future where we are very cold for 6 months of the year and no longer enjoy personal transport? Can society accept a world where we rapidly wind back all the technological advances that have delivered our current standard of living? It would be a social experiment (nightmare) the like of which has never before been attempted. We have no idea how this is all going to work out? Society as we know it will fall apart and the survivors will end up living in a version of life much like that depicted in various old disaster/Armageddon movies.
Documentary makers from the BRICS nations, which ignored much of this stuff, will visit the UK and make movies about the weird ‘net-zero’ people of the UK. This is so momentous that it is hard to predict where all this will end up? but whatever, it is not an attractive vision of the future.
We had an article earlier today about how nobody had bothered to model the possible negative impact of lockdowns. Nobody asked for them apparently. And now this delusion @$$#@t wants to bankrupt the entire nation while freezing us to death in our 15 minute ghettos with no thought for the financial consequences. It would require the back of an envelope, a pencil and about 5 minutes. But no, that would produce an answer that goes against their narrative so nobody is responsible. Who are these people? Are taxpayers paying their no doubt obscene salaries?
Perhaps we’re not paying his salary? He’s well past the Slithering Serpents usual retirement age, on an index linked final salary basis, of 50.
What a joyless, hatchet-faced so and so he looks to be. I can see him switching the gas off when he turns the bacon over, although he probably makes a batch of salty porridge and eats it cold through the week.
Do we really have to give air time to senile old fools who know they won’t live to endure the consequences of their foolery?
And as for the couple of downtickers – where are all your mates? Have they left you to it tonight? Aw, bless…
“The intervention came as a cold snap sent the U.K.’s demand for gas surging to a peak of 135 million cubic metres on Monday”
Completely pointless.
When the cost of energy soared I followed the advice of a medical professional and set the central heating thermostat to 12C and followed the advice to “heat the person and not the home“.
This not only works really well but saves a fortune in energy bills.
Two sweaters or a hoodie and a sweater works really well plus warm socks and decent ankle length slippers.
4 person household and no complaints.
It is also a heck of a lot healthier than central heating on all winter.
Obviously, when it does get cold – which is generally below 12C – the heating goes on but that will not be for a couple of months – in recent times middle of Dec to mid-Feb but not on every day or all day even then.
Wow. The first downvote of spring.
What on earth could anyone find objectionable with my immediately preceding comment that they would be compelled to downvote it?
We may never know.
Completely agree, several (synthetic) fleecy layers over a cotton t shirt (natural fibres difficult to dry at lower temperatures) and most importantly, fleece lined trousers. Although I must admit that my thermostat is set a few degrees higher than yours. My woolly hat is off to you (but not for long, for obvious reasons.)
Haha! I win.
You only got one downvote to my two.
Where do these
downvotersmorons come from?I’m winning 9-1 now. You’ll never catch up.
Armitt by name, dimwit by nature
Always add IMHO so that you are not making a factual statement [potentially defamatory] but an expression of opinion [which is a statement of what you believe to be true which anyone can choose to agree or disagree with but is not a statement of what you say is true.]
That sounds like an opinion from a legal perspective?
I have never had a humble opinion in my lifetime and it’s a bit late to start at my time of life
Try lying.
It works for our politicians.
Anyway, humility is overrated.
These people are the equivalent of 19th century writers and poets who used to live their lives high on various drugs writing fairytales and nonsense poems. It was fun as great works of art were created but that’s all they were great works of art no one took them literally.
This lot are producing the same nonsense and fairytales but they are now taken seriously.
I think like Blackadder I’ll stick some pencils up my nose and put some underpants on my head after all as he would say “who’d notice another madman around here”.
Bonkers truly bonkers.
Poor Armitt. Senility has set in rather early.
Nasty, but right on. It’s a comfort to reflect that mortality will make rotted corpses of the big nasties of our time – Gates, Soros, Tedros. By some measures it already has.
Understandable remarks but consider what causes you to make them.
Powerlessness to do anything about it.
Why are we all powerless?
Our elected political representatives don’t represent us but keep their gobs shut on all the things that are important.
At the same time as Armitt was making this pronouncement, Northern Powergrid, the body responsible for ensuring the supply of electricity to the North of England, was warning that the forecast bad weather could cause interruptions to our power supply.
In the past, alert citizens would take this as a reminder to make sure that they had alternative means of heating ready for use, but Armitt and his cronies are determined to put coal, gas wood etc. beyond our reach so that we should become dependent on electricty.
Does no-one think to ask him what we are exected to do if the power goes off?
“Does no-one think to ask him what we are exected to do if the power goes off?”
Good point. Precisely the kind of question government planners should be asking.
They’re all batshit crazy.
What is the track record of the National Infrastructure Commission?
Is it the NIC that is responsible for the fact that we have insufficient housing, prison space, generating capacity, and dodgy roads? Are they in any way responsible for the HS2 fiasco? Those all sound like ‘infrastructure’ to me.
Why are we paying for (let alone listening to) these twerps?
I wager a £1000 that these folks have had a traumatic childhood/adulthood & need to be examined by unbiased Psychotherapists & put on long term therapy
Is that polite middle-classeeze for saying they are all nutters?
Classic ‘bait and switch’
Have some grey, end-of-career quangocrat spell out in gruesome fiscal detail how NetZero is an unaffordable and deluded fantasy with cold, hard, brutal facts that inform and then enrage the voters.
Then do a 180 volteface on the purile, science-free netzero policy.
And thus be seen to be the (re-electable) saviour of Britain’s economy and way of life.
Isn’t this just too obvious?
And too good a policy change for the current crop of weak, globalist apparatchiks?
Another one that needs locking up in a small room with only a heat pump for company and warmth.