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Green Obsession Puts Millions of Families At Risk of Power Cuts, Fuel Poverty

British Media Declare All-Out War On Green Energy Lobby



ONE million homes narrowly escaped a power cut last month as bitterly cold weather placed a massive strain on Britain’s creaking electricity network. Shutdown was only avoided because a gas-fired station due to close by next winter came to the rescue. Last night experts warned that life-threatening blackouts are increasingly likely as “we head downhill – fast”. Fawley is one of a number of coal and oil power stations being forced into retirement to comply with EU environmental targets.--Tracey Boles, Sunday Express, 24 February 2013
We are facing disaster on energy prices. The dynamic has changed, but the thinking hasn’t. What worries me most is that the average household energy bill will be £1,400 by end of the year; £1,500 is a cliff edge at which most people say they’ll switch off the heating entirely. ----Ann Robinson, consumer champion at uSwitch, Sunday Express, 24 February 2013 Scotland’s wealthiest private landowners are on course to earn around £1 billion in rental fees from wind farm companies, according to a book published yesterday by a senior Tory politician. Struan Stevenson, a Conservative MEP, estimated the sum will be paid over the next eight years to at least a dozen landowners willing to allow turbines on their estates and farms. –-Simon Johnson, The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013

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Our energy policy is no longer dictated by the need to keep supply plentiful and cheap which for decades was the basis of all planning. Today energy policy is framed with only one factor in mind: satisfying the green lobby. It is, to be blunt, mad. --Stephen Pollard, Daily Express, 20 February 2013 We’re seeing in Scotland the biggest transfer of money from the poor to the rich that we’ve ever seen in our history. In parts of the Highlands now tourism is being effectively destroyed and people are leaving the Highlands because tourists no longer want to go there with the landscape bristling with wind factories and industrial wind turbines. It’s a catastrophic policy that could lead to the lights going out in Scotland and power cuts in the years ahead. It’s time this was exposed. -- Struan Stevenson, MEP, The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 ThE main task of the Department of Energy used to be keeping the lights on but windmill-obsessed David Cameron and his coalition cronies have changed all that. Now we have a Department of Lethargy (aka Climate Change), more keen on closing down old power stations than opening new ones. There has been nothing like it since the Luddites vainly tried to halt the Industrial Revolution by smashing up new labour-saving machines. Mr Yeo has moved an extraordinary amendment to the Energy Bill that would set a crippling and binding target for the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by generating power in 2030. It would transform the electricity industry and bring huge benefits to the business sector, which has so generously rewarded Mr Yeo. For the rest of us, however, the effects will be very different. It will cause already high energy bills to soar further and could lead to more power cuts. The effect on business is likely to be even more dramatic. –- David Rose, Mail on Sunday, 24 February 2013 Even without the amendment, the long-term consequences of the Energy Bill will be horrible. It’s a recipe for deindustrialisation. Either we get rid of this obsession, or we give away our future to the rest of the world. The question is whether we’re serious about our economic future or not. –- Professor Gordon Hughes, Mail on Sunday, 24 February 2013 Thousands of Britain’s wind turbines will create more greenhouse gases than they save, according to potentially devastating scientific research to be published later this year. The finding, which threatens the entire rationale of the onshore wind farm industry, will be made by Scottish government-funded researchers who devised the standard method used by developers to calculate “carbon payback time” for wind farms on peat soils. --Andrew Gilligan, The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 The harsh fact is that successive governments in the past 10 years have staked our national future on two utterly suicidal gambles. First, they have fallen for the delusion that we can depend for nearly a third of our future power on those useless and unreliable windmills – which will require a dozen or more new gas-fired power stations just to provide back-up for when the wind is not blowing. Yet, at the same time, by devices such as the increasingly punitive “carbon tax” due to come into force on April 1, they plan to double the cost of the electricity we get from grown-up power stations, which can only have the effect in the coming years of doubling our electricity bills, driving millions more households into fuel poverty. --Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2013 Until very recently, all the mainstream media sources on the alarmist wing of the global warming theory were apt to agree with one another no matter what, but now, at last, when somebody announces that the oceans will soon be 30 feet over the heads of our grandchildren, there is a welcome new reluctance to accept the mere assertion as evidence in itself. Getting a bit frail in my old age, I never thought I’d live to see the day when the Guardian told the BBC to stop cooking the books. But it happened. –Clive James, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2013


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