Miliband’s budget has been increased by 15.6 per cent for the Review period. Much more significant are the actual spending limits set, which add up to an obscene £45.1billion for the four years 2025/26 to 2029/30.
THEY ARE taking away your car, gas boiler and foreign holidays. Now they want to take away your meat and dairy too.
LAST week Kemi Badenoch came out with a rather half-hearted criticism of Net Zero. While this was welcome, she appeared to kick the whole thing into the long grass with an investigation to be headed by Tory energy spokesman Claire Coutinho.
LAST November the National Energy System Operator (NESO) published a report, ‘Clean Power 2030’, which examined how Labour’s plan to decarbonise the power sector by 2030 could be achieved.
Although Energy Secretary Ed Miliband crowed that the report proved his plan was feasible, the opposite was the case.
Whisper it, but 2025 may be the year net zero dies. Such a development isn’t inevitable, but what was once described as “the climate crisis” is morphing into the climate-crisis crisis as voters lose patience with the project and grow less shy about saying so.
THE founding fathers of the Green revolution are not well-known. Despite their instrumental role in environmental catastrophism and the Net Zero imperative, mention their names on the Clapham Omnibus and you will get a blank look.
LET ME start by saying that all the wind farms, solar farms and electric vehicles in the entire world are a waste of time, space and, above all, money. Why?
Subsidies for renewable energy mandated by the Act have already added more than £100billion to our energy bills. Thanks to Miliband’s obsession with wind and solar power, the annual subsidy bill will have risen to £30billion in five years if Labour’s plans are carried out
THE government have been feeling generous with your money again. They have just given the go-ahead for Drax to fit carbon capture technology (CCS) to their wood burning power plant in North Yorkshire. They are also expected to extend the subsidy agreement which already rakes in £700million a year for Drax and is due to expire in 2027.
It sounds innocuous enough, but it will cost us all dearly. The CHMM places an obligation on gas and oil boiler manufacturers to increase the consumer demand for heat pumps by setting a target for sales of the latter.
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