Green, ethical, energy issues in the news

Martyn1981

silverwhistle said:

On my feed The Daily Telegraph typically came up with a headline about adding up to £1.1bn to bills due to wind. The shadow energy secretary was complaining about 20 year contracts etc etc.. Does she not know how long and how much has been promised for new nuclear..?

Article in the Guardian explains a lot, I think.

You have ex-Conservative Prime Ministers (so they don't need to win votes now) saying that we should stick with renewables and green targets, in very strong words.

We need to move to lower carbon and green energy, there are more jobs in it, almost certainly cheaper energy, lower expenditure on importing FF's, and you get energy indepedence (possibly even net export for the UK, given our vast offshore wind potential).

But, it's a potential vote winner for some parties at the moment, to pretend that the move is damaging, or to blame the problem on developing nations growing their energy supply/demand.

All seems a bit silly ..... or at least it would be, if it wasn't so important. Maybe by 2030 or 2035, the 'fuss' will have moved on to the next great hyped hoax scare vote winning issue.

Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop ‘bashing green agenda’ or risk losing next election

The former prime minister said he had not seen the Conservatives “soaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero is”.

Johnson’s intervention comes after Theresa May and John Major criticised the Tories for speaking out against net zero, making him the third former prime minister to step in on this issue.