Net Zero is Losing the Battle of Ideas
David Turver attended the Battle of Ideas in London at the weekend and found that Net Zero is losing: it simply doesn't have the facts on its side. Cracks are appearing in the cosy green Westminster consensus.
David Turver attended the Battle of Ideas in London at the weekend and found that Net Zero is losing: it simply doesn't have the facts on its side. Cracks are appearing in the cosy green Westminster consensus.
Tesco and Shell are to buy the entire output of a controversial solar farm under construction on the Kent coast that was approved against massive local opposition on the basis that it would power 100,000 homes.
Ed Miliband is to relax planning laws to make it easier and cheaper for developers to build onshore wind turbines and solar farms. Ah yes, the 'green' movement that destroys the countryside.
So much for Labour's pledge to cut energy bills by £300, says David Turver. Under GB Energy, our bills can only go one way, and that is up.
Ten years after the rural backlash that forced David Cameron to ban onshore wind developments, Ed Miliband is planning to resume the rollout of wind farms across the English countryside.
Ben Pile analyses the environmental policies in the Conservative and Labour manifestos and struggles to spot the difference.
