Tag: Energy crisis

Last summer's riots weren't mainly about immigration, says Chris Williamson. They were the fruit of policies such as Net Zero that have impoverished the UK and created an alienated underclass that is screaming to be heard.

It isn't so much that the Tories are getting more popular as that Labour is getting less so. Which illustrates a more general predicament for the Tories and any other party that might have aspirations to government.

A new report from the IEA admits that coal is still on the up while an article in Project Syndicate announces the failure of the energy transition – signs, says Ben Pile, that greens are slowly waking up to reality.

Rather than facing the facts, Ed Miliband has this week tripled-down on what everyone else can now see are terrible mistakes in energy policy more than two decades in the making, says Ben Pile.

According to Labour, "all families deserve the security of a home they can afford to heat". If the party really believed that, says Ben Pile, it would drop its commitment to over-priced green energy and ramp up the gas.

When Ed Miliband didn’t come to the Commons to deliver a statement it became obvious the wheels had come off his 'plan' for zero carbon electricity by 2030. It's another broken election pledge, says Claire Coutinho.

Green levies helping to support supposed cheap wind and solar power have soared in Labour's Budget and will quickly add many hundreds of pounds to household electricity bills, says Chris Morrison.

A new report from the "Energy Crisis Commission" calls for a move way from fossil fuels, somehow missing that this is what's driving the energy crisis, says Ben Pile. That's because the "Commission" is pure Green Blob.

The Climate Change Committee has appointed Emma Pinchbeck as its new CEO – a 37 year-old humanities graduate with no experience in the energy industry except lobbying. Can the calibre go any lower, asks Ben Pile.

The U.K. only avoided a blackout on Tuesday because gas came to the rescue after a power line importing electricity from Norway failed. Under Net Zero we won't have gas to save us, warns Paul Homewood.