The Green Deal

In two weeks time the UK Government will have completed the finishing touches to the “Green Deal” which will be at the heart of its claim to be the greenest government ever. Frankly there is not a great deal of competition when it comes to being a green government of the United Kingdom; the last [...]

Forward natural gas prices rise by 25%

Centrica is preparing the market in natural gas for another price increase. Throughout the world energy and fuel is becoming more and more expensive. Of course, from day to day prices fluctuate but the long term forward prices are rising.

Sustainable Development and Governments

The Sustainable Development Commission is abolished. Its role was to act as a watchdog and bark when the Government did not implement its sustainable development strategy within its own departments. It was supposed to ensure that the government did embed the principles of sustainable development within government decision making. I can understand why it has [...]

An independent Scotland

In the recentUnited Kingdomelections the Scottish National Party won sufficient votes to from a regional government inScotlandand intends, during the next five years, to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. I do not live inScotlandand so would not have a vote in such a referendum, but if I had I would vote for Independence for [...]

Democracy In the United Kingdom

TheUnited Kingdomtraditionally holds elections and referenda on Thursdays, and I have managed to vote in everyUKelection since I reached the age of 18. I voted in the Alternative Vote Referendum. I live inLondonand there were no local elections inLondonon Thursday, just the referendum, but the rest of the country had to vote in local elections [...]

Hunting for oil in the Arctic

As oil and natural gas supplies from traditional sources decline and as prices rise, so the exploration and development of oil and gas fields turns to smaller fields in remote and difficult to access places. The reason why BP drilled for oil at Deepwater Horizon was not because BP though it would be fun to [...]

Vote early, vote often

Today I imagine that less than half of those qualified to vote in the United Kingdom will stir themselves up out of their apathy or take a break from their busy lives to vote in the referendum about voting. If you do vote in the referendum you will have just a single vote and have [...]

Obama Got Osama

I cannot say that I greeted the news that Osama Bin laden was killed with elation. No death should be a cause for celebration. The death of a tyrant should bring a feeling of relief from tyranny and the death of a terrorist relief from terrorism but not elation.

Energy Policy Folly – Wind Turbines

Christopher Booker, writing in the Daily Telegraph on 23rd April, rightly, in my view, argued that the lights in Britain will go out more sooner than expected because of European Union and UK energy law and policy. He sets out the facts as

Tax On UK Gas Production

Centrica is a multinational energy company that produces and sells more natural gas in the United Kingdom than any other energy company. Like all multinational companies it does not like paying tax, a feature that it shares with almost everyone on this planet. Most of us dislike paying tax, not because we feel that we should not [...]