Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer] George Osborne is finalising a plan to cut household energy bills by up to £75 a year by removing charges to support green power projects and home insulation schemes http://www.thegwpf.org/osbornes-green-deal-cut-energy-bills/
Study says warmer temperatures are largely due to natural 300-year cycles Actual increase in last 17 years lower than almost every prediction Scientists likened continuing pause to a Mexican wave in a stadium http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485772/Global-warming-pause-20-years-Arctic-sea-ice-started-recover.html
More than 300 MPs claimed a total of 200,000 on expenses for their energy bills, it has been reported. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10423252/340-MPs-claim-200000-on-expenses-for-energy-bills.html
The Energy and Climate Change Committee want suppliers to disclose costs Would include wholesale energy prices and green levies Also asked to reveal the profit they make from a typical domestic customer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485616/Power-chiefs-reveal-profits-Energy-companies-facing-demands-MPs-provide-breakdown-figures.html#ixzz2jZEDGADT
John Selwyn Gummer is chairman of a firm which connects wind farms But he also leads a committee in charge of setting green energy targets Now Energy Secretary admits he knew – but insists there was no problem Labour climate sceptic Graham Stringer said that claim is ‘patently absurd’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2485800/I-knew-energy-watchdog-chiefs-green-business-links-admits-Ed-Davey–denies-conflict-interest.html
Green Energy has meant Electric Poverty as cheap and efficient sources of power and heat are traded for hideously expensive and inefficient solar and wind power that’s fine for those cashing in, but prices energy out of the range of many ordinary people. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/green-energy-triples-uk-fuel-prices-may-kill-thousands-over-winter/
Scotlands Energy Minister, Fergus Ewing, has warned that the UK Governments Electricity Market Reform proposals could undermine Scotlands renewables sector and supply chain, while threatening security of supply across the UK, and further price increases on consumers bills as a result. In a letter to Secretary of State Ed Davey, Read more
SCOTLAND’s two largest councils have criticised the Government over its plan of action to tackle climate change, in another blow to Holyrood’s green policy. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/largest-councils-criticise-governments-climate-change-plan.22576576