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Posted by Richard Casson — 20 October 2015 at 2:56pm
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There was a time when it was rare to see solar power on rooftops here in the UK. Our cloudy skies and the high cost of panels meant the technology was out of reach in all but the sunniest parts of the country.
But over the last decade, things have changed dramatically.
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The government was forced today to pledge to close a loophole in a power
sector subsidy scheme that could allow billions of bill payers’ money to go to
polluting old coal plants, Greenpeace can announce today.
In a statement issued earlier today the Department for Energy and Climate
Change (DECC) said it plans to amend the latest draft of the capacity market
rules to ensure existing coal plants are excluded from lucrative 15-year contracts
potentially worth billions of pounds. [1]
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In response to the announcement from Minister of State for Energy Michael
Fallon that the benefits for 'local communities hosting new nuclear power
stations' would be funded by DECC, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at
Greenpeace UK, said –
“Whilst wind farms and even shale gas developers have to pay community
benefits, only nuclear stations will get a fat taxpayer subsidy to fund them.
Our entire energy policy is now absurdly distorted by the desperation to prop
up EDF’s faltering Hinkley C project, with the government piling the costs onto
the taxpayer to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they backed the wrong
technology. We can’t go on like this.”
ENDS
Posted by Willie — 24 February 2012 at 5:50pm
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Organised crime
seems to pay quite handsomely, especially if you manage to be part of a
profession that seems to be beyond reproach. That can surely be the only
conclusion to draw from the group of 17 fishermen who were
fined a mere £720 thousand in court today for an overfishing scam that
effectively stole £63 MILLION of fish from our seas.
Posted by Graham Thompson — 10 February 2012 at 9:54pm
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Thursday we issued a zombie warning – we had concerns that armies of undead arguments were likely to crawl from
their graves onto ITV’s ‘Tonight: the real cost of going green’. Did you spot
any?
Well, perhaps not entire armies - ITV were a
bit more sensible than we expected. And they were a lot more sensible than the
Panorama crew who based a whole documentary on a KPMG report on the costs of
renewables, which they never actually saw, and which KPMG have now decided not
to release. Overall, Tonight was relatively even-handed. Perhaps the KPMG
fiasco has taught the media to be a bit less trusting of dubious pronouncements on
green energy.
Nevertheless, a few zombies did manage to
sneak under the wire.
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