News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
While China advances with cutting-edge nuclear power, Britain's green zealots have us stuck with sky-high bills and a nuclear sector in disarray, says Ben Pile.
Bizarre and unrealistic, the National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios report is a wild jumble of impractical ideas and unfeasible technologies, says David Turver.
Wind turbines as tall as 800ft are set to get the green light after Ed Miliband pledged to lift the ban on new onshore wind farms under a Labour Government.
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.
Labour's energy policy just doesn't stack up, says David Turver. Better for Keir Starmer to take his Great British Energy plans, and its logo, to a darkened room with a bottle of whisky and a revolver.
Net Zero should be tackled with the same urgency and speed as the race for a Covid vaccine, says former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.
Keir Starmer's GB Energy Plan is as flawed as the renewable energy it peddles, says David Craig.
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.
In the annual Global Warming Policy Foundation lecture, Lord Frost warns that the Government's goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050 will involve vast waste, inefficiency, cronyism and economic decline.
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