News Round-Up
8 July 2025
Britain's Net Zero zealotry, crippling taxes and political sabotage have driven another oil refinery to collapse – yet Ed Miliband and the Guardian would rather blame mismanagement than face the truth, says Ben Pile.
Africa's renewable "leapfrogging" is a dangerous myth that ignores the continent's urgent need for reliable fossil-fuel energy to drive development, warns the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor.
Ed Miliband has failed to make progress on cutting household energy bills, the Climate Change Committee has warned, as it also called on ministers to curb the public's use of air travel and ban new homes from using gas.
The world has never consumed as much coal as it does today, and with the US now re-embracing it this is only set to grow. King Coal's comeback is a triumph of pragmatism over climate alarmism, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
It's reported that Ed Miliband is set to roll back the looming boiler ban as heat pump installations miss their target by nearly 90%. Little wonder, says Ben Pile, when payback time is measured in centuries, if at all.
Families with boilers, big homes or children are set to face bigger bills as Labour plans to shift green levies onto gas and charge more for heavier water use.
Corporations and banks are shifting from "green-washing" to "green-hushing", but unless this marks real change, it's just more empty promises, warns Bjorn Lomborg.
During winter, wind power fell by 11% and gas came to the rescue, pushing up prices to eye-watering levels. On some days the windmills produced almost zero. This is why energy prices are sky high, says Chris Morrison.
Why does UK electricity cost so much? On the BBC yesterday Energy UK's Adam Berman revealed that it's because gas is setting the price but the Government is pocketing the difference, refusing to pass it on to consumers.
The Chairman of BP is to quit in the wake of the oil giant abandoning its disastrous green energy plan and returning to focus on oil and gas.
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