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Here’s some good news – via Bishop Hill – from America. A Big Oil company – Chevron – is taking legal action against a group of environmentalists for fraud and extortion: aka greenmail. The sums involved are eyewatering: $19 billion. (That’s billion, note, not million). http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100242585/chevron-accuses-environmentalists-of-greenmail-telling-lies-to-further-their-noble-cause-ring-any-bells/

THE Prime Minister may well have made up a new energy policy “on the hoof”, to use the mocking term thrown at him by critics. http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/438831/David-Cameron-s-timely-pledge-to-roll-back-green-taxes

The charity that protects the UK’s historic and natural spaces has revealed it could allow fracking on its land. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2474668/National-Trust-allow-fracking-land-wind-farms-ruled-unlikely.html

ANGRY residents have launched a campaign to stop a controversial wind farm with 415ft high turbines being built in their picturesque glen. http://www.highland-news.co.uk/News/Backlash-over-plan-for-giant-wind-turbines-at-Glenmoriston-23102013.htm

Written by Hugh Ross Plans for a towering wind farm near Reay – which would have the tallest turbines in the Highlands – have been blasted by councillors who have urged the Scottish Government to reject the giant scheme. Fears were also expressed at a planning committee meeting yesterday that Read more

Ann Treneman There was a spooky moment on the Today programme when Ed Davey, broadcasting from the very wet nuclear power plant site of Hinkley Point C in Somerset, suddenly disappeared. “We seem to have lost the line to Ed,” said presenter Sarah Montague. Silence. It was like the Bermuda Read more

Prime Ministers Questions/BBC iPlayer (2.35 -12.00 mins in) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03fmht7/Prime_Ministers_Questions_23_10_2013/

Ineos, the chemicals group, is considering shutting down its plant in Grangemouth, Scotland, due to rising costs and the decline in production of gas from the North Sea. Its chairman singles out energy costs, which he says has been driven up by high environmental taxes on consumers. http://www.thegwpf.org/britains-energy-crisis-grangemouth-chemical-plant-close/