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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Government is using the excuse of 'climate change' to justify the largest taxpayer 'investment' in wind and solar farms in British history.
Labour's Energy Secretary Ed Miliband wasted no time in ending the "ban" on onshore wind. But with unreliable wind power escalating in cost, this blind commitment to wind power could be Labour's undoing, says Ben Pile.
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.
BP has put all new offshore wind projects on pause as the oil company’s new Chief Executive seeks to focus more heavily on fossil fuels.
Renewables are not cheap and are never going to be, says David Turver. With over £12 billion being paid in subsidies to or because of renewables each year, the claim that renewable will save us money is a myth.
Every job in wind and solar power is currently costing the taxpayer over £250,000 in subsidies every year. This isn't the promised "green prosperity"; it's the path to penury.
The UK will squander a staggering £16 billion this decade as regulatory and planning failures result in Scotland's wind power surplus outstripping transmission capacity to the South.
They're unreliable, expensive, environmentally destructive and need a backup on standby. When will politicians accept that wind and solar power can't replace fossil fuels, asks Richard Burcik.
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.
The head of the Government’s climate watchdog told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, FOI documents reveal.
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