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3 October 2024
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According to Keir Starmer, Labour's plans for a publicly-owned Great British Energy company will help "close the door to Putin". But the UK's high gas prices are due to Net Zero, not Russia, says Ben Pile.
Newly released documents reveal the Greens engaging in outright fraud to deceive ministers and push the nuclear phase-out in Germany.
The heat pump rollout is failing because people don't want them, the National Audit Office has warned. In 2022, gas boiler installations outnumbered heat pumps 27 times over.
Rishi Sunak's recent announcement of new gas power generators to ensure reliable energy supply on the path to Net Zero is his King Canute moment, says Mark Ellse.
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.
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