We need constitutional reform with checks and balances on the power of the executive.
Filed under: Alistair Darling, David Cameron, Tony Blair, gordon brown, parliament, tax | Tagged: arthur conan doyle, choosing the judiciary, flaws in the british constitution, members of parliament, MPs' expenses, power of UK Prime Minister, scots influence in the UK, Scottish Parliament. MPs, sherlock holmes | 3 Comments »
Will there be a green budget from Mr Darling? Not on his present form,or that of the Government.
Filed under: Alistair Darling, David Cameron, carbon emissions, cars, climate change, energy, global warming, gordon brown, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: bids for green cities, electric cars, green budget, Green New Deal, green policies | 11 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 »
Wind turbines – how they work and their limitations
I have not written much about wind turbines in these posts for two reasons. First, understanding how much energy an wind turbine can deliver is quite complicated, a task not made easier by the varying claims and standards and secondly because wind energy suffers, like all forms [...]
Filed under: David Cameron, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, heat, parliament, wind turbines | Tagged: Beltz' law, intermittancy, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, small wind turbines, transitional, wind mass, wind speed | 6 Comments »
I have been reading a document published by the Conservative Party called “Blueprint for a Green Economy, written by John Gummer and Zac Goldsmith as a submission to David Cameron’s shadow cabinet. I have been very critical of the Labour government’s energy policy and in the interests of balance I thought that I should turn [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, David Cameron, John Gummer, carbon emissions, energy, heat, nuclear energy, pollution, solar energy | Tagged: 2003 White Paper, Blueprint for a green economy, Conservatives, energy, energy supply, environment, John Gummer, regulation, Zac Goldsmith | 3 Comments »
Hilary Benn has been quiet this week because he has been very busy saving us all from global warming in Bali, although I do not think he has any takers for his Climate Change Bill, except of course the lemmings who always vote for their party, right or wrong, at Westminster.
It looks like Bali will [...]
Filed under: David Cameron, Hilary Benn, United Nations Climate Change Conference, carbon emissions, gordon brown, microgeneration, parliament, solar energy, solar panels, targets, wind turbines | Tagged: climate change bill, solar panels, Hilary Benn, gordon brown, Bali, climate change conference, wind turbine, David Cameron, payback, pay back, carbon dioxide savings, displacement of fossil fuel, | 1 Comment »
