The fatcat ecocrats exposed: Web of ‘green’ politicians, tycoons and power brokers who help each other benefit from billions raised on your bills
- Four of nine-person Climate Change Committee, official watchdog that dictates green energy policy, are, or were until recently, being paid by firms that benefit from committee decisions
Other industries would stand accused of damning conflicts of interest but when it comes to global warming, anything goes…
The Mail on Sunday today reveals the extraordinary web of political and financial interests creating dozens of eco-millionaires from green levies on household energy bills.
A three-month investigation shows that some of the most outspoken campaigners who demand that consumers pay the colossal price of shifting to renewable energy are also getting rich from their efforts.
Enquiries by this newspaper have revealed:
- Four of the nine-person Climate Change Committee, the official watchdog that dictates green energy policy, are, or were until very recently, being paid by firms that benefit from committee decisions.
- A new breed of lucrative green investment funds, which were set up to expand windfarm energy, are in practice a means of taking green levies paid by hard-pressed consumers and handing them to City investors and financiers.
- £3.8 billion of taxpayers’ money funds the new Green Investment Bank, set up by the Department of Business and Skills. One of its biggest deals involved energy giant SSE selling windfarms to one of the new green funds, Greencoat Wind. The Green Investment Bank’s chairman, Lord Smith of Kelvin, is also chairman of SSE. The bank says it ‘provided expertise’ to enable BIS to take a £50 million stake in Greencoat, which helped fund the SSE sale.
- The same bank’s chief executive, Shaun Kingsbury, is one of the UK’s highest-paid public sector employees. His £325,000 salary is more than twice the Prime Minister’s.
- Firms lobbying for renewables can virtually guarantee access to key Government policy-makers, because they are staffed by former very senior officials – a striking example of Whitehall’s ‘revolving door’.
Among the most astonishing features exposed by our investigation is the way in which vehement advocates for radical policies designed to curb global warming are making huge sums of money from their work. Here are some of the key figures among the new breed of fat-cat Ecocrats…
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One story about potential corruption.
Doesn’t seem like much at first.
But then, the Watergate scandal started with a single story too.
The specifics are of interest and it is good this information is being made public.
However, “follow the money” is a common refrain on WUWT and other such places so I doubt the general aspects of this will surprise anyone.
Surely only the tip of the iceburg…..
I don’t believe it! Alarm heads would never try to make a profit from global warming. Would they? So much for being better than the rest of us.
David Rose is reporting this? My, this is serious …
Anthony has been blocking me ever since I asked him to put up a post for me.
He refuses to admit his PhDs have lied to him.
This is only one more “screen shot” to verify I am now blocked.
Thank you.
[Reply: Anthony doesn’t do a lot of moderating any more. This comment was in the spam folder. Rescued and posted now, as you can see. — mod]
EUreferendum.com broke this story about Lord Deben 26 August 2012 – here is the original text – it is a tale of complete and utter corruption: http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83087
Put the bozos in jail.
Correction Lord Deben – not Denham who is innocent. Mod please correct my post above – thanks
[Fixed. -w.]
Let’s see if this story of global warmist / green energy corruption is indeed true. It does seem plausible.
Consider this:
When people start shouting that “the science is settled”, you just KNOW you are being scammed.
Realistically, I suggest that nobody of even average intelligence is THAT stupid.
Regarding the impact of increasing CO2 on global warming:
If climate sensitivity even exists, it is clearly very small, much less than 1C / (2 x CO2) …
… but CO2 LAGS Temperature (in time) at ALL measured time scales …
Hypothesis:
Based on the preponderance of evidence, temperature drives CO2 much more than CO2 drives temperature, so climate sensitivity may not exist at all at the “macro” scale, and may be utterly irrelevant to climate science except at the “micro” (and materially insignificant) scale.
There may be others significant sources of CO2 that contribute to its increase in the atmosphere, but increasing CO2 just does not have a significant or measureable impact on global warming, which is almost entirely natural in origin.
I therefore suggest that the oft-fractious “mainstream debate” between warmists and skeptics about the magnitude of Climate Sensitivity is materially irrelevant. Climate sensitivity to CO2, if it exists at all, is so small that it just does not matter.
Wait 5 to 10 more years – I suggest that by then most serious climate scientists will accept the above hypo. Many will claim they knew it all along…
Regards, Allan
geran says:
December 14, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Anthony has been blocking me ever since I asked him to put up a post for me.
He refuses to admit his PhDs have lied to him.
This is only one more “screen shot” to verify I am now blocked.
Thank you.
[Reply: Anthony doesn’t do a lot of moderating any more. This comment was in the spam folder. Rescued and posted now, as you can see. — mod]
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The question is: How did I all of a sudden get put into spam, after commenting here for years?
Only after I showed Anthony’s “math expert” was a phony?
(Yup, screen shot here also.)
[Reply: Make all the screen shots you want; you are here as a courtesy just like everyone else. No one is entitled. Moderators also do not have access to the WordPress algorithm or keywords/phrases that determine which posts are automatically approved, and which ones are held for approval. This mod’s suggestion is to comment on the article and try to leave personal feelings and suspicion out of it. Enjoy the science, that’s what this site is about. — mod.]
Americans need to put the biggest scammer of all-Obama in jai along with Al Gore. I hope Al runs to Russia.
Another wheel on the AGW wagon starts to rattle…
The Porkoisie at work, as someone recently referred to them.
Corrupt warm-mongers, eh? Whoever would have thought…
geran says:
December 14, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Forget the screenshots and then, purposely misspell our gracious host’s name to get past the filter, quickly. See the immediately previous thread where many people tried that trick and posted without issue.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t hurt your case to calm down a bit.
David Rose rips UK climate change committee for being on the take
Gomer says: “Surprise, surprise, surprise!”
Absolutely no one who has been paying the least bit of attention is surprised by this.
I am shocked to learn that people who are trying to “save the world” would do such a thing.
Reblogged this on wwlee4411 and commented:
Who would have guessed?
Given the degree of suffering in Britain because of high energy prices, the people described in the article above are seriously worse than greedy. There cannot be so much as one sense of guilt among them. I hope that they can be prosecuted for corruption, at least, and for some more serious crimes. The Church of Global Warming needs to defrock some Bishops.
[Reply: Make all the screen shots you want; you are here as a courtesy just like everyone else. No one is entitled. Moderators also do not have access to the WordPress algorithm or keywords/phrases that determine which posts are automatically approved, and which ones are held for approval. This mod’s suggestion is to comment on the article and try to leave personal feelings and suspicion out of it. Enjoy the science, that’s what this site is about. — mod.]
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Correction, “science” was what this site USED to be about. Don’t get “holier with me” there bubba mod, I got the evidence.
The key word is “phony”.
[No. mod]
dbstealey says:
December 14, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Can you do the accent? I can. My sons do it all the time. I wonder how many other readers will get the reference.
Here you go, D. B. …
15 Dec: AFP: French carbon crook on run after bracelet fails
PARIS— A Frenchman convicted of carbon trading fraud that cost the state some 1.6 billion euros ($2.2 billion) has gone on the run, a judicial source said Saturday, admitting that his electronic tracking bracelet had stopped working.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Michel Keslassy, 50, who was given a three-and-a-half year sentence in June for buying untaxed carbon credits abroad and adding on value-added tax (VAT) when he traded them in France.
The VAT was never declared.
A French court ordered Keslassy’s release from prison in November for health reasons on condition that he was monitored electronically using the bracelet.
But after “a few days”, the device “stopped working”, the source said…
Carried out in 2008-09, the carbon fraud was one of the biggest ever registered in France, authorities said, and cost Europe some 5.0 billion euros, according to the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol.
Keslassy was fined 65.5 million euros—equal to the amount of unpaid VAT. He has appealed and the case is due to be heard in February next. year. http://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-carbon-crook-run-bracelet-081823265.html