Some newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at the GWPF
At Last: UK Industry Demands Government Rethink On Unilateral Climate Policy
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) confirmed today that it will ask government to rethink conflicts of interest between low carbon and industrial policies. The CBIs position for action on this situation is that government should seek agreement from all EU members to commit to the same carbon reductions and price increases. —The Manufacturer, 6 June 2011
The EU’s climate and energy policies are threatening the survival of the European producers of non-ferrous metals like aluminium, copper, zinc and nickel, says Robert Jan Jeekel, Director Energy & Climate Change of Eurometaux, the European Metals Association. The EU’s ‘unilateral policies’ are driving up electricity prices for European producers compared to their international competitors, he says. ‘As a result, factories are closing. This could spell the end of the production of aluminum and other non-ferrous metals in the EU.’ –Karl Beckman, European Energy Review, 6 June 2011
European airlines have warned of a damaging trade war with the US, Russia and China if Brussels pushes ahead with plans to include carriers in the emissions trading scheme next year in a move that will put fares up by €40 and cost the industry €1.1bn (£980m). –Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 5 June 2011
As green industries begin to experience “subsidy-sunset” – they are driven by subsidy, not market, conditions – the “peak” of renewable energy from wind and solar may have been reached. The fact that significant and vocal sections of the public are also speaking up and campaigning may also be another sign that the commitment to renewable energy has peaked. –Stephen Murgatroyd, Troy Media, 4 June 2011
It is the greens, not the opponents of wind farms, who are the true heirs of the 19th-century Luddites, standing in the way of an energy policy that would benefit us all – and protect our landscape. –Philip Johnson, The Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2011
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“Tenuc says:
June 7, 2011 at 8:30 am”
France, really, along with Russia, Canada and Japan? I’ve not seen reports (Not a surprise in Aus) that France ditched Kyoto. I don’t like asking this question but, do you have a link to a report?
Sounds like common sense, well that won’t last, trust me, that baby went out with the bath water! 🙂
It is good news that The Telegraph has, at long last, decided to give some prominence to sceptical views. Until recently it has relied on its reliable ‘useful idiots’ – environment correspondents, Geoffrey Lean and Louise Gray to approvingly recycle Greenpeace press releases for us.
But both of them have had reduced prominence recently. Perhaps at lest one quality newspaper in the UK will start to seriously challenge the prevailing orthodoxy.
It is also worth remembering that it was the Telegraph which broke the scandal of the MPs expenses in the last Labour administration. Pollies take it seriously after that little embarrassment for them.
While the CBI getting involved is long over due I think that the concentration on the big energy consumers is misplaced.
Come the end of the month another of my ever shrinking sources of sub-contract work will be gone. The company has been sold whole to an Indian consortium.
Although the owner was obviously tight lipped about the financial details he was a lot more forthcoming about why he is selling up. Basically too much time dealing with regulation and not enough time left for all that design, manufacture and sale nonsense. His energy bills are now horrendous and that doesn’t help.
Anyway he’s out and off to productive semi-retirement in Ireland where he will currently get a lot for his money. The equipment will now be manufactured in India and another couple of dozen people here in the UK will be jobless come July.
“Scottish Power raises gas and electricity prices”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13685915
“Scottish Power is to raise the cost of gas by 19% and the cost of electricity by 10%.”
During the 1970s and early eighties I remember hearing we had 400 hundred years worth of coal. Now it appears the UK also has between 200 and 400 years worth of shale gas
“The CBIs position for action on this situation is that government should seek agreement from all EU members to commit to the same carbon reductions and price increases.”
For the sake of our cousins, the US and Australia cannot play footsy with carbon dioxide emissions regulation and taxes.
Dr. Ira Glickstein pointed out that some on the right are in agreement with ghg policies, and he is correct. In fact, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has just announced that scientists agree that the globe is warming and that it is the result of man’s activity. This is in line with his economic policy as gov of Mass, in which he favored a policy encouraging a switch to renewable energy and new fees on electricity use, and he also signed into law co2 emissions standards which were 30% stricter than national standards. And I do not need to mention that there is very little qualitative difference between Romneycare and Obamacare.
Scottish Sceptic says:
June 7, 2011 at 6:56 am
I remember a film in which a Japanese navel commander
On the IJN Heso no doubt 😉 [belly button]
Latimer Alder says:
June 7, 2011 at 9:44 am
“It is good news that The Telegraph has, at long last, decided to give some prominence to sceptical views….”
It takes more than a single swallow to make a summer. As a long-time Telegraph reader I have been saddened to see its one-sided and biased coverage of climate change (but the Sunday Telegraph is completely different – it’s not obsessed by climate change and it’s much more balanced). The Daily Telegraph’s coverage did improve following Climategate, but it quickly reverted to type. This week they printed a report about pro-AGW scientists receiving death threats. If true, that’s completely unacceptable – but they did not of course mention that sceptical scientists also may have received death threats from environmental fundamentalists. The report also included the usual litany of how we’re all doomed, with sea levels rising and endless heatwaves etc. There was no mention that many scientists simply don’t believe this nonsense.
Today’s Telegraph has a letter from a group of economic heavy-weights. They warn about excessive UK taxes and I think they’re right. In particular they warn against green taxes. Note that they put quotation marks around the word ‘green. I quote:
“Furthermore, exusting “green” measures will already raise energy prices by 30 per cent at a time when companies are struggling under the weight of a government sector that absorbs over half the nation’s income.
Tax, regulation and expensive, ill-designed “green” measures will not cure our problems. Indeed, the economic evidence suggests that they are strangling our recovery”.
I couldn’t agree more. But will our deluded and global warming-obsessed government listen? I doubt it. Not while our energy policy is controlled by Chris Huhne. But then…….
Chris
A bit like my compatriot Scottish Sceptic I believe that all the weather problems we are having stem from our use of modern weaponry; if we all went back to using natural materials, like stone arrowheads, things would get back to normal.
Oh, wait a minute…………. .
In fact, maybe sooner than we think.