The Government has pledged nearly £22bn for carbon capture and storage projects in a move that has united sceptics and alarmists in condemnation of the expensive and unproven technology.
As Labour prepares to deliver a Net Zero coup de grâce to the industries that made Britain, there are signs of workers beginning to organise their own defence. But alas, it's doomed to fail, says Ben Pile.
Ed Miliband rhetorically bounced around the podium like a geek who'd missed his meds. But as the fabled 'green jobs' evaporate in the face of China's coal-driven industry, the unions are growing restive, says Ben Pile.
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband has doubled down on his commitment to expensive, intermittent forms of power. It's a strategy leading straight to deindustrialisation and impoverishment, says David Turver.
Chris Packham has hit back at claims made on GB News that half the world's population could die under Net Zero. But that seems like a fair estimate of the catastrophic harm of deindustrialisation, says Chris Morrison.
A group of 73 major companies from 17 sectors including chemicals, pharmaceuticals and engineering have warned the EU that the continent faces industrial wipeout from Net Zero.
More than 3,000 jobs are set to be lost at the U.K.'s biggest steelworks as the U.K.'s Net Zero deindustrialisation strategy sees it set to become the only country in the G20 unable to make its own steel from scratch.
Britain is shutting down its last remaining ammonia production plant. For the first time in a century this country will become entirely dependent on nitrogen fertiliser imported from abroad, says Ed Conway in the Times.
