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.
Newly released documents reveal the Greens engaging in outright fraud to deceive ministers and push the nuclear phase-out in Germany.
France enjoys electricity prices 41% cheaper than Germany thanks to its nuclear industry, while Germany becomes increasingly dependent on unreliable renewables and environmentally harmful biomass.
The Telegraph's Andrew Orlowski blasts the UK's sluggish response to its energy crisis, blaming bureaucratic delays, a decline in nuclear capacity and proposing small modular reactors as a belated remedy.
The German Government has been caught hiding an assessment, ahead of the nuclear phase-out, that keeping nuclear plants open would reduce CO2 emissions by 30 million tonnes per year.
Rising energy costs linked to Germany's green policies are fuelling economic decline and public discontent, boosting the appeal of opposition parties against the Government's green agenda.
The Swedish Government has ditched its targets for “100% renewable energy” amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.
The deeply destructive energy policies being implemented in Germany originate in a band of groupthinking green activists who over decades have secured an iron grip on the political levers.
It took 50 years of fearmongering before Germany finally shut down its last nuclear power station this weekend. Many fear this will only worsen the energy crisis and ordinary Germans will pay a heavy price.
If Scotland were to cease to exist tomorrow, the impact on global temperature, according to IPCC models, would be negligible. Undeterred, the Scottish Government is set on driving its energy supply into catastrophe.
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