News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
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Ed Miliband's efforts to blame the £149 rise in the energy price cap on the last government are laughably hopeless, says Ben Pile in the Daily Sceptic.
Paul Homewood received a letter from the Deputy Director Strategy at the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero acknowledging that plans to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 – or 2035 –are unworkable.
Keir Starmer has been accused of dragging Britain back "to the dark ages" by risking a £4.5 billion hole in public finances with Labour's ban on new North Sea oil and gas.
High costs are thwarting the UK's 'heat pump revolution', with the Government struggling to make eco-friendly heating accessible to ordinary families.
Labour's rush for clean power by 2030 would leave us totally dependent on Chinese materials, threatening our energy security and hiking up prices, warns Claire Coutinho.
Swathes of farmland are being earmarked for wind farms and solar parks under new initiatives allowing renewable energy companies to charge customers more for their power if they generate it close to where it is needed.
A controversial "boiler tax", which would require homeowners to bear the cost of replacing old appliances, may be on the verge of being abandoned by the Government.
Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor, takes aim at DeSmog, a smear sheet aimed at discrediting climate sceptics funded by green billionaires.
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