No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
News Round-Up
6 May 2024
Topsy-Turvy Land
5 May 2024
In the King's Speech the Government confirmed plans for mandatory annual oil and gas licensing rounds, but measures to stop anti-car schemes like Ulez were missing.
The man running Britain’s gas network has said the country will need fossil fuels to prevent blackouts for decades to come as he reveals there is not enough breeze for wind power 71% of the year.
The truth is out, writes Matt Ridley. An official report has admitted for the first time the scale of the cost of reaching Net Zero by 2050 – the same as spending £1 a second for the next 31,000 years.
A Just Stop Oil mob today tried to stop the first asylum seekers returning to the Bibby Stockholm barge, claiming the migrants are victims of climate change and blaming the Government.
Shut down Britain's gas network, roll out heat pumps and ban all private vehicles from cities, the Government has been told by its National Infrastructure Commission.
The problem with trying to live on solar power, says Guy de la Bédoyère, as he does, is that how much energy you have depends entirely on how much the sun is shining. And very often it isn't.
Rishi Sunak has become engaged in a row with the Climate Change Committee as the advisers claimed his watering down of Net Zero measures will increase the risk of Britain failing to meet its 2050 target.
"The idea that Net Zero can be achieved by any means short of a command economy combined with a drastic decline in standards of living is a blatant falsehood," says Cambridge's Professor Michael Kelly. And for what?
Politicians repeatedly reassure the public that wind power is cheaper than gas, but these misleading claims ignore the true costs of trying to run a modern electricity grid on the back of unreliable weather.
The German Government on Wednesday approved putting coal power plants back online from October until the end of March 2024 to address scarce natural gas this winter and avoid shortages.
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