Posted on February 18, 2008 by robertkyriakides
I wrote the article below for the Building Services Journal, who have kindly allowed me to reproduce it here.
Biomass is on everyone’s list of an environmentally friendly and sustainable energy sources, even though it involves burning fuel. Many developers these days have to comply with the Merton Rule, whether they are environmentalists or not. This [...]
Filed under: Flooding, John Hutton, Merton Rule, biomass, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, heat, malcolm wicks, pollution, propaganda | Tagged: benzopyrenes, biomass boiler, carbon cycle, carbon monoxide, carcinogenes, closed cycle, decay, gas back up, heavy metals, lung disease, peat, replanting, smoke filtering, wood ash, wood smoke | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 31, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Each year twenty back bench members of the House of Commons names are drawn from all back benchers names in a ballot. The twenty lucky ones will be given some of Parliament’s time and resources to draw up a bill that might become law. Usually only the top few names in the ballot have a [...]
Filed under: Conservatives, Merton Rule, PV, carbon emissions, energy, microgeneration, nuclear, parliament, power, solar, solar energy, wind turbines | Tagged: Merton Rule Bill, Michael Fallon, parliamentary ballot, Sevenoaks | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 9, 2007 by robertkyriakides
Sometimes you feel that your work is worth while. Over the past few months I have written extensively opposing a leaked government proposal to abolish the Merton Rule, which requires councils to insist on a small percentage of on site energy generation as a condition of permitting new development. A number of periodicals have published [...]
Filed under: Merton Rule, climate change | Tagged: climate change, Merton Rule, planning policy statement, Yvette Cooper | No Comments »
Posted on October 29, 2007 by robertkyriakides
I wrote this for H&V News, and lots of people wrote to me saying that they agreed with my sentiments. It will be an interesting start to my weblog.
Some truths are virtually self evident; one is that climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today which we can only really mitigate by emitting [...]
Filed under: Merton Rule, Nicholas Stern, climate change, energy, genersys, heat, microgeneration, propaganda, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: big lie, climate change, DBERR, Defra, fiddling the figures, Goebbels, lies, Merton Rule, propaganda, Stern Report, truth | No Comments »
