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- Environmentalists trashing the environment, part 729 Sat, 2 Jan 16, 8:30pmAs greens steadily persuade governments to intervene more and more often in energy markets, the unintended consequences flow ever thicker and faster. In a delightful example today, we read that chemical companies are trying...
- The wisdom of the man in Whitehall Thu, 3 Sep 15, 8:00pmYesterday came the news that another major power station is to close. Eggborough is a big 'un, its 2GW coal-fired capacity meaning that it generates as much as 4% of the UK's supply. According to the operators, electricity...
- In Poland, workers and windfarms sit idle Wed, 12 Aug 15, 6:56pmIt's hot in parts of Eastern Europe at the moment - this happens in summertime I believe - and so people are switching on the airconditioning in droves.
- Does Labour hate the North? Fri, 3 Jul 15, 5:54pmI missed this news a couple of days back, but it's quite an interesting as a demonstration of the results of the Climate Change Act and the duplicity of the political classes:
- Doom, doom, doom, another one bites the dust Tue, 26 May 15, 7:19pmAnother coal fired power station is to close - this time imminently. Eon have apparently announced that time is running out for the Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire; its allowance under the EU's Large Combustion Plant...
- Another power station to close Wed, 20 May 15, 5:45pmSSE has announced that it is to close a coal-fired power station at Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire, taking a further 2GW of capacity out of the grid. I'm not sure whether this has been factored into Ofgem's capacity margin...
- Longannet to close Tue, 24 Mar 15, 3:23amThe BBC reports that the Longannet power station is to close in 2016.
- In which computer models collide with the real world Tue, 17 Mar 15, 8:24pmYesterday's post on the trade-off between the need to expand use of fossil fuels in Africa and the wish to restrict carbon dioxide emissions seems to have stirred up a bit of a rumpus...
- Another disinformation frenzy Tue, 11 Nov 14, 8:53pmAnother day, another wave of environmentalist disinformation mindlessly regurgitated by the mainstream media. This time the great green propaganda machine is looking at a report by a pair of NGOs concerning what it calls...
- The Old Lady of Eco Street Mon, 13 Oct 14, 7:12amThe Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney first came to the attention of BH readers when, at the time of his appointment, it was noted that his wife Diana was (and is) a fervent supporter of the green movement (and...
- Another capacity crunch in 2018/19? Mon, 6 Oct 14, 6:52pmThe last 48 hours has brought news of yet more pressure on the electricity grid. The good news is that the year that is currently looking most likely to bring power cuts - the winter of 2015/16 - is unaffected. The bad news...
- Greenpeace crackdown Thu, 19 Jun 14, 5:41pmHaving been declared an obstacle to economic development in India as a result of its campaigns against coal-fired power stations, Greenpeace now finds itself on the end of something of a crackdown by the Indian government.
- Energy gloom Thu, 10 Oct 13, 6:27pmDavid Cameron had a vision of a greener life, lived closer to natureIt's hard not to lose heart sometimes. Looking around the news on the energy front this morning, the bad news is overwhelming.
- UK takes the German path Thu, 28 Mar 13, 11:42pmThe government has just released its provisional figures for 2012 greenhouse gas emissions, and it's not good news. Emission are up sharply, taking them back to the levels prevalent in 2009, when the Climate Change Act had...
- Bringing politicians to Booker Sun, 24 Mar 13, 7:22pmChristopher Booker is in fine form this morning, describing in horrific detail the steady progress of the UK's energy system towards disaster. Perhaps mercifully, he does not move on to consider what this will mean for the...