What we can say with absolute certainty is that Ed Miliband’s quest for Net Zero by 2030 is still physically impossible and would involve economically catastrophic cost. Since talk of reducing our climate emissions to zero first started there has been nothing but disingenuous statistics. Most of our ‘national emissions’ have simply been offshored. Manufacturing now takes place in other dominions such as China, where there is scant regard for ‘emissions’. A large part of the infrastructure being used for wind turbines and solar panels is constructed at the expense of a massive carbon footprint. Offsetting the carbon footprint of a wind turbine, solar panel or electric vehicle takes years; and wind turbines and solar panels have a finite lifetime requiring replacement and regular maintenance. Labour think that Great British Energy, another technocratic Quango, will spur private sector investment into the “green” domain; but much of the existing development was simply chasing government subsidies – taxpayers’ money thrown into the bottomless pit. The markets do not share Labour’s enthusiasm as shares in most big players in the renewable sector have flatlined or fallen since Sunak announced the election in May. The original targets also take no account of the massive increases that are going to be required in electricity supply to provide for all the EVs, giant data centres and the extremely energy consuming AI technologies that are supposedly coming along in the near future as part of the rush to electrification. While cretins like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion continue to glue themselves to things in this country, responsible for less than one per cent of global emissions, the global use of fossil fuels is increasing with forecasts showing that more coal will be mined in 2050 than in 2000 despite hypocrites on private jets flying to climate conferences and signing vacuous agreements. The Climate Change Committee, a bunch of technocrats like the “follow the science” liars of the Pandemic, have announced that Miliband is not going fast enough to reach his target by 2030. Which part of “cannot be done” do they not understand? Build more infrastructure in less than 6 years than we have built in the last 60. I wonder at which point the brain dead British public will wake up and realise that they have been conned.
I wonder if they're starting to realise that greenhouses sprout up near power stations to save bring CO2 in by tankers.
Away and shove a prize marrow up your ****. And it still wouldn't touch the sides of your yawning abyss of a wizards sleeve.
This is the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, Ed Miliband, estimating how long Net Zero will take. please log in to view this image Energy SecurityWe are already a net importer of oil and gas, so let us stop extracting our own and import more of it. So more reliance upon potentially hostile third parties, Ed? The rare earth minerals required for all green technology come almost exclusively from overseas as does much of the technology manufacturing. So more reliance upon potentially hostile third parties, Ed? In the name of Net Zero, switch off street lights to save electricity. Public security (women walking home alone at night; increased knife crime) is not relevant, Ed? Burglaries from shops and homes will increase but the police do not bother with that sort of crime already. In the name of Net Zero, introduce road mileage charging. That should put paid to the school run and care workers driving between clients. Public security (children walking to school in the dark) is not relevant, Ed? In the name of Net Zero, to cut school energy bills in the winter months, schools will close in the winter for six weeks not the summer. So parents will take them out of school illegally for holidays but they will walk to school less in the dark, Ed? Will this eliminate our less than one percent contribution to global emissions by 2030? Impossible. We would need to build more infrastructure in the next six years than we have built in the last sixty, at crippling cost. It seems that most of this infrastructure is funding going to non-British companies and governments.
Who is the biggest liar in a Cabinet full of liars? That renewables auction was launched in March. The election had not even been announced. Somebody doubled the amount of subsidy for the wind turbine and solar projects and, amazingly, loads of companies changed their position from the previous auction that received no bids. That “cheap homegrown energy” is actually produced by companies owned by Denmark, Norway and Spain. Scottish Power is owned by Spanish company Iberdrola, so when your energy bills go up the £82 per MWh subsidy is lining someone’s pocket in Madrid. Ironically, the company’s wind farms are located off East Anglia. Miliband allowed them to move part of their bid from a previous lower subsidy auction. Off the East Yorkshire coast, the ‘Hornsea 3’ wind turbine project – run by Denmark’s Orsted – also moved part of its bid from a previous bidding round to the most recent one to cash in on the extra subsidy. Any word yet on when energy bills will be coming down? Also no word on when they are going to start building all the infrastructure that is necessary to get this energy from the middle of the North Sea to anywhere in the country where customers actually live. I am sure that the people in East Yorkshire and East Anglia will be ecstatic to have lines of pylons running across their back gardens to get it to Leeds, Manchester and London.
Why is the man that lost the 2015 General Election to wet Blairite David Cameron still allowed to stick around? please log in to view this image The NHS is only the envy of the world in his tiny mind. GB Energy will be a disastrous waste of money with ever worsening results like our NHS.
Untested £22bn carbon capture scheme really will work this time, insists Starmer Sir Keith Stalin already has the Hypocrite of the Year 2024 award in the bag. Years of lying since he lied to get the leadership job at the Labour Party have all come back to haunt the Tool. Ed Millipede lost the 2015 General Election to a wet Blairite and slinked off back to the Northern backwater that was stupid enough (still is) to vote for him. Now he has reinvented himself as a Net Zero zealot and has a seat around the Cabinet table. His latest Net Zero wheeze is Carbon Capture. Actually that is not true. He has tried this one before when he was in the Blair government. Twenty years ago the New Labour government subsidised a Carbon Capture project that was going to pump the CO2 into an old oil field. That created virtually no jobs and never got close to the estimates for CO2 captured but swallowed up hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money. In the end the Treasury pulled the plug on it when Gordon Brown’s financial crisis hit. The claims that this time it is going to produce 4,000 well paid jobs in the North East and the North West are a mathematical fantasy. The taxpayer subsidy over the next 25 years is going to be £22bn – this government’s favourite figure. So let us round that up to £1bn a year. So £1bn subsidy divided by 4,000 jobs means that each job will be costing the taxpayer £250,000 a year. Hell, why do they not apply the Millipede logic to train drivers, school teachers, junior doctors et al? Just subsidise everyone’s wages and call it an investment. When somebody asks where all this money is going to come from just tell them that VAT on private schools and stopping winter heating allowances for pensioners will cover it. Anybody with more than two brain cells to rub together would be asking why this project needs subsidising for 25 years. It clearly is not a realistic business investment from day one or the private sector would be investing. I would not put a brass farthing into any of these green energy companies – they are just a sink for taxpayers’ money. Even the environmental lobby groups think this is a waste of money. Given our less than one per cent contribution to global emissions, surely this sort of thing should be done by China, which is still building coal-fired power stations to burn Australian coal.
Even if it worked (which it doesn't) daft Ed's baby would result in a maximum of 2% scrubbed from the air and damage the environment in the process. A few grand's worth of trees would be better all round. Environmental groups and scientists are against the scheme.
