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Category Archives: Renewable Energy
Open Letter to David Cameron
29 March 2016 The Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP The Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister, Whatever happened to the greenest government ever? Given my experience of working in environmental consultancy or regulation, I understand … Continue reading
It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fossil Fuels
I’d really like to think oil companies will soon admit the game is up: The extraction of fossil fuels is going to become increasingly financially uneconomic and socially unacceptable. After all, it is almost 4 months since Mark Carney said … Continue reading
Fracking off in Lancashire (and elsewhere?)
I know this is very late but, it is such significant moment, I feel I must comment on the recent decision of Lancashire County Council to refuse to allow fracking to proceed in their county. Never mind that their decision … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Denial, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Fossil Fuels, Hydraulic Fracturing, IPCC, James Delingpole, Merchants of Doubt, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Amber Rudd, Benny Peiser, China, Christopher Monckton, Elysium, Fracking, Geology, groundwater, IPCC, James Cameron, James Delingpole, Lancashire County Council, Lord Lawson, methane, NIMBYism, Titanic
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A personal exchange of email with LEGO
In my original email to LEGO (via the Greenpeace website), I tried to be as brief as I could. Sadly, all I got was a generic reply that did not address the issues I was raising. Here is the correspondence … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Climate Science, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Greenpeace, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Greenpeace, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Lego
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The Arctic 30 are back – please help Shell say no to Gazprom
Latest email from Greenpeace: Hi, Five months ago, they tried to silence us. They arrested our activists, and threw them in jail for peacefully protesting oil drilling in the Russian Arctic. The oil giants thought they could scare us away … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic, Climate Science, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Greenpeace, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged Arctic 30, Esperanza, Gazprom, Go Beyond Oil, Greenpeace, Prirazlomnaya, Rainbow Warrior, Rotterdam
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BBC Panorama on the Energy Crisis in the UK
The BBC have very helpfully posted the recent Panorama programme ‘Energy Bills: Power Failure’ on YouTube (as embedded below). Presented by Tom Heap (who regularly does spots on CountryFile), it is very fair-minded and includes contributions from a wide range … Continue reading
James Lovelock stuck between a rock and a hard place
Although much delayed and interrupted by other stuff, this is now the third part of my review of The Revenge of Gaia, as published by James Lovelock in 2006. The first and second parts were published on this blog last … Continue reading
George Monbiot is as incisive as ever
I admit it, even though I am (or would like to be) socially conservative, George Monbiot is one of my heroes. His long track record of illuminating the stupidity of climate change scepticism was one of the reasons I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Crisis, Environment, Ethics, Fossil Fuels, Hydraulic Fracturing, Insanity, Politics, Renewable Energy
Tagged corruption, George Monbiot, Insanity
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UK looks likely to back the wrong horse
Sad to say it but, having reached cross-party consensus and implemented the Climate Change Act in 2008, the UK has now: — failed to honour the promise this contained; — failed to listen to the advice of its own scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Economics, Energy Crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Greenpeace, Intergenerational Injustice, Politics, Populism, Renewable Energy, Sustainable development
Tagged Climate Change Act, Energy Bill, Greenpeace, John Ashton, Parliament, United Kingdom
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Nick Reeves says we’re all ‘Fracking Mad’
The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stone! I know this has been said many times. Most recently it has been said by one of my favourite environmental commentators/campaigners, Executive Director of CIWEM (the Chartered Institution … Continue reading
