Swingeing green stealth levies on energy bills are ‘perverse’ and should be scrapped, MPs warn today. A major report says the taxes are hitting poorer families hardest. MPs also call for middle-class pensioners to lose their winter fuel allowance, with Read more
A lack of transparency about energy company profits is undermining trust in the energy market and Ofgem is not taking all the action necessary to tackle the issue and restore consumer confidence, MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Committee Read more
PLANS to create 2,000 jobs by turning a defunct oil yard into a major wind turbine manufacturing base could be blown off course by a powerful conservation body. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/3331656
Two Teviotdale communities will be changed if land is gouged away to allow transportation of 17 wind turbines up to 121.5 metres in height. That is the claim of residents after Northampton-based Infinis submitted drawings with last month’s Windy Edge Read more
by PERRY GOURLEY POWER giant SSE yesterday warned that UK government policy was delaying vital investment and did not provide enough incentives for investors to fill a looming gap in generation capacity. In strongly-worded comments accompanying a trading update, the Read more
Last year a paltry 5% of all Europeans rated climate change as their most pressing concern. In the new poll the percentage has gone down to 4%. http://www.thegwpf.org/eu-poll-europeans-longer-concerned-climate-change/
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the midst of finishing its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) on the topic. Based on a series of content leaks, it seems as if the AR5 has so much internal Read more
I note that the green lobby is trying to spin the protests at Balcombe in East Sussex as Middle England in revolt against fracking. What absolute rot! Never mind that some of the protestors were seen sitting in comfy middle-class-style Read more