Despite Britain’s countless problems that might need the urgent attention of the new Government, it has chosen to focus on climate and energy. The mad-eyed fanaticism of Ed Miliband has now yielded three new vehicles for the climate agenda: GB Energy, the National Wealth Fund, and Mission Control, a clean energy initiative. None of the detail about what these bodies will actually do, and how, has yet been fully explained to the public, but the latter agency is to be headed by former chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), Chris Stark, who only quit his role a few months ago. What this signifies is that despite the formation of new agencies, the Government is dangerously bereft of ideas that can reanimate the walking corpse of the Net Zero agenda.
As I pointed out in the Daily Sceptic a few months ago, the CCC is a troubled organisation. After the departure of its chair, John Selwyn Gummer, restyled as Lord Deben, the CCC has only an ‘interim chair’, Professor Piers Forster. And then Stark announced he was quitting to chair the Carbon Trust, leaving the CCC without its most senior operating person. “This Bill,” explained Ed Milliband’s older brother in 2007, referring to the Climate Change Bill in his capacity as Secretary of State for the Environment, “will constrain every future U.K. Government to ensure that its carbon emissions do not exceed the level of budgets that are agreed between a carbon committee, made up of independent people, and Government itself.”
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