News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Britain will build new gas power stations, Rishi Sunak has said, as he vows not to risk blackouts to achieve Net Zero. But his claim that building a whole supplementary power system will "keep bills down" is nonsense.
A leading member of a Canadian centre-Left party supporting Justin Trudeau’s minority Government has tabled a bill seeking to jail people who speak out in favour of fossil fuels.
A controversial "boiler tax", which would require homeowners to bear the cost of replacing old appliances, may be on the verge of being abandoned by the Government.
Gas hobs and boilers are to be banned in all new homes in Oxford from 2025 under the council's radical Net Zero 2040 plans.
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.
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.
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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