MSE News: Legal threats over solar subsidy cuts

magyar

BarryQ wrote: »

You mean like the annual £2.5 billion in subsidies given to the UK power industry, that money tap certainly isn't in danger of being turned off.

What £2.5bn?

BarryQ

magyar wrote: »

What £2.5bn?

That's what is paid to subsidise the Nuclear and Fossil Fuel industry in the UK.

magyar

BarryQ wrote: »

That's what is paid to subsidise the Nuclear and Fossil Fuel industry in the UK.

By whom, under what legislation?

Cardew

BarryQ wrote: »

That's what is paid to subsidise the Nuclear and Fossil Fuel industry in the UK.

Really - info please!

Not the other way around?

From the Telegraph:

Oil and gas company bosses last week told the energy select committee that the £10bn tax grab on the industry would mean North Sea fields would be closed down early, and would be hard to sell to new owners.

Then of course the VAT paid by consumers; 5% and 20%.

BarryQ

I can't post links but if you search for Greenpeace and subsidy scandal you should find it. It's a report published by Greenpeace.

magyar

BarryQ wrote: »

I can't post links but if you search for Greenpeace and subsidy scandal you should find it. It's a report published by Greenpeace.

The only thing I could find was http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/97/climate/eusub.html

A report from 1997 with no explanation or reason, just some curious claims. Is this the one you mean?

jamesd

Fossil fuel subsidy: in a large part ignoring the toxic, radioactive and carbon waste emissions and not subjecting them to the same standards of control as say the nuclear power industry. The very high tax rates on North Sea oil production are pretty bad but might not be sufficient to pay the costs of the environmental cleanup of using it as fuel.

Nuclear subsidy: counting all of the costs of nuclear weapons production, including power reactors that had producing nuclear weapons materials, as part of the cost of commercial nuclear power instead of splitting out the weapon and civil power parts.

Brian99_2

Mass Rally in London on Tuesday

http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/events/events/122818-mass-rally-against-solar-feed-in-tariff-cuts-to-target-parliament.html


So there could still be hope for those struggling to finish their solar projects before the deadline.

grahamc2003

jamesd wrote: »

Fossil fuel subsidy: in a large part ignoring the toxic, radioactive and carbon waste emissions and not subjecting them to the same standards of control as say the nuclear power industry. The very high tax rates on North Sea oil production are pretty bad but might not be sufficient to pay the costs of the environmental cleanup of using it as fuel.

Nuclear subsidy: counting all of the costs of nuclear weapons production, including power reactors that had producing nuclear weapons materials, as part of the cost of commercial nuclear power instead of splitting out the weapon and civil power parts.

Perhaps BarryQ could confirm these are the 'subsidies' he was thinking of. I must admit, I thought he was saying that £2.5b in cash was somehow paid over to the fossil and Nuke industry.

I muist say it seems a bit far fetched to me to say the cost of Nuclear weapons is somehow a subsidy to Nuclear Power generation. A little like saying British Airways has a subsidy of the cost of the RAF.

John_Pierpoint

The likes of Ryanair got a superb subsidy to use all those former cold war airfields.

The original atomic power stations were built to breed bombs, the electricity was a side line giving the enterprise respectability - I think all the old "magnox" power stations are now cash consuming subsidised demolition sites and/or concrete sarcophagi?