Have they got nothing better to do?
Filed under: Conservatives, climate change, global warming, gordon brown | Tagged: credit crunch, Damian McBride, MPs allowances, MPs pay, MPs pension, MPs travel expenses, war in afghanistan, war in iraq | 4 Comments »
To permit the climate to change or not to permit the climate to change; that is the question. You can read, see and hear about the importance of address climate change every day. Most of the talking is done by scientists and politicians. The former group can see the evil of climate change that threatens [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, Nicholas Stern, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, genersys, gordon brown, microgeneration, renewables | Tagged: stern review, world bank, climate change act, Green New Deal, Green Party, anti climate change measures in the UK, Mr Obama's climate change policies, Grantham Research Institute | 9 Comments »
Every political party wants to appear to have “green” policies these days. Green is the new black. The policies of the Government in the United Kingdom are well defined but inchoate, and more observed in their talk than in their action. They talk the talk but do not, when push comes to shove walk the [...]
Filed under: Coal, Conservatives, David Cameron, biofuels, biogas, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, genersys, global warming, liberal democrats, microgeneration, natural gas, oil, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: carbon sequestration, conservatives environment, David Cameron Environmental policies, energy security, Green Party, liberal democrats | 5 Comments »
Parliament has enacted a series of anti-terrorism laws which are being used in ways that have nothing to do with terrorism. Great care must be taken before you give the police or the tax authorities more power because they will inevitably use powers given for one reason to assist them in ways that were not [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, law | Tagged: Boris Johnson, Damien Green, police powers, terrorism laws | 2 Comments »
Peter Lilley is a Conservative MP and he has criticised the Climate Change Bill, working its way through Parliament, because it represents poor value. He places the cost at “up to” £10,000 per family in a blog written for the BBC’s very large and informative website, although it is unclear how the £10,000 is calculated [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, microgeneration | Tagged: BBC, Climate Cahneg Bill, cost of climate change bill, Peter Lilley | 2 Comments »
There must be something in this climate change business if good old Boris Johnson, recently elected Mayor of London, has changed his mind about it. Just three years ago Mr Johnson in his friendly, semi-blustering and witty style poured scorn on the whole concept that the climate was changing due to human activity. This conservative [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming, nuclear energy, solar, solar energy | Tagged: boris johnson and climate change, Mayor of London, strategies for london for climate change | 5 Comments »
The UK’s nuclear energy will shortly cease to come under government control.
Centrica (the energy company which owns British Gas) is buying 25% of British Energy, the nuclear generating plant, from EDF. The UK Government owns 35% of British Energy, which is worth according to the price that Centrica paid for its shares, around £4.3 billion. [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, John Hutton, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, global warming, nuclear, nuclear energy | Tagged: Bristish Gas, Centrica, chernobyl, EDF, Government control of nuclear energy, nuclear waste | 9 Comments »
There have been many new “green energy” policies announced recently; we have heard about £100 billion that will be spent on green energy in the next ten years, the forests of wind farms that will be built in the United Kingdom and solar thermal systems for seven million UK homes by 2020.
Suddenly we are [...]
Filed under: Coal, Conservatives, John Hutton, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, gordon brown, heat, microgeneration, nuclear, nuclear energy, oil, parliament, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: 2003 Eenergy White Paper, energy policy, Energy Savings Trust, MPs' expenses, northsea oil peak, oil exploration, UK energy policy, UK soalr industry, zero carbon homes | 1 Comment »
John Hutton is Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. By training he is a lawyer, but he now is in charge of Energy for the United Kingdom. His problem is to set out an energy policy that will provide the nation over the long term with energy as cheaply and as low [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, John Hutton, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, liberal democrats, malcolm wicks, microgeneration, nuclear, nuclear energy, pollution, power, renewables, solar panels | Tagged: carbon footprint of nuclear energy, energy policy, nuclear power, replacing aging nuclear reactors, scttish national party | 6 Comments »
