News Round-Up
6 October 2024
by Will Jones
Miliband Summons the Green Unicorns
6 October 2024
by Ben Pile
When Ed Miliband revealed he didn't have a clue how to reach Net Zero he asked National Grid to give him the answer. Its response shows that it doesn't know either and it's the blind leading the blind, says David Turver.
Ed Miliband and Chris Stark have asked National Grid for fresh advice on how to achieve Net Zero electricity by 2030. In other words, they've just admitted they have no clue what they're doing, says David Turver.
National Grid executives have warned of blackouts before the end of the decade in London and the South East due to unreliable wind and solar power in private remarks that contradict the company's official position.
The Climate Change Committee has just released its 2024 report and its full of contradictions, reports David Turver. Reducing our reliance on oil and gas and making electricity cheaper are incompatible policy objectives.
High costs are thwarting the UK's 'heat pump revolution', with the Government struggling to make eco-friendly heating accessible to ordinary families.
The Drax power station in Yorkshire, which has received £6bn in U.K. green subsidies, has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests, a BBC investigation has found.
One of India’s iconic large birds, the great Indian bustard, is feared to be about to go extinct due to the growth of electric transmission lines from wind and solar power. Just 150 birds may remain.
Welcome to the Government's latest Net Zero swindle, says David Turver: electricity interconnectors with continental Europe. Touted as making energy cheaper, cleaner and more secure, they in fact do the opposite.
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