From Dr Benny Peiser’s weekly energy roundup, consternation amongst greens at the appointment of Peter Lilley MP to the energy and climate change select committee. Lilley recently debunked the Stern Report, and the greens won’t forget that:
Peter Lilley MP has been appointed to the energy and climate change select committee, provoking an angry response from climate change campaigners. “The addition of climate change sceptic and oil company director Peter Lilley to the energy and climate change select committee is part of a growing picture,” said Greenpeace policy director Joss Garman. “With Owen Paterson as environment secretary and anti-wind campaigner John Hayes now energy minister, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Tories are gearing up to assault the Climate Change Act and increase the UK’s reliance on expensive, imported, polluting fossil fuels.” –Charles Maggs, Politics.co.uk, 25 October 2012 (http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/10/25/outrage-as-energy-sceptic-appointed-to-climate-change-commit)
Last week, David Cameron chaired a meeting of the Quad — the coalition’s decision-making body — at which senior ministers attempted, and failed, to agree the precise content of the Energy Bill. According to a report in The Times, it could result in a cap on new onshore wind farm developments. –James Murray, GreenBusiness, 24 October 2012 (http://www.thegwpf.org/energy-bill-negotiations-deadlocked/)
When Germany’s power grid operator announced the exact amount of next year’s green energy levy on Monday, it came as a shock to the country.
The cost burden for consumers and industry have reached a “barely tolerable level that threatens the de-industrialization of Germany”, outraged business organisations said. Since then politicians, business representatives and green energy supporters have been arguing about who is to blame for the “electricity price hammer”. After all, did not Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) promise that green energy subsidies would not be more than 3.6 cents per kilowatt hour? Now, however, German citizens have to support renewable energy by more than EUR 20 billion – instead of 14 billion Euros. How could Merkel be so wrong? –Daniel Wentzel, Die Welt, 20 October 2012 (http://www.thegwpf.org/lies-damn-lies-and-green-statistics/)
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Fenbeagle’s latest on wind turbines proposed in Humberston and Tetney:
Peter Lilly is a bit of a libertarian if I recall correctly and even looked at cannabis legalisation circa 2001 which to me showed he’s prepared to stand out on a limb which hopefully means a more open mind rathr than following the concensus. That he wants evidence based conclusions as opposed to media hype and fear mongering is a good sign – not that I trust any politician tbh
Assault the Climate Change Act? The UK should be so lucky. I suggest high-yield nuclear torpedoes.
“The addition of climate change sceptic and oil company director Peter Lilley to the energy and climate change select committee is part of a growing picture,” said Greenpeace policy director Joss Garman.”
With my hand on my heart, I can genuinely say that I hope it is true.
Michael Hart. I hope so too. Will the German lesson be learned before it is too late? There isn’t much time left to kill off the Climate Change Act and the renewable industry before we become a 3rd world country.