A competent, knowledgeable interviewer is a pleasure to watch.
The future of Heathrow expansion is uncertain after leading judges ruled that the Government must reconsider its support for a third runway because of the environmental impact.
The Court of Appeal concluded that the Secretary of State for Transport failed to take account of the Government’s commitments to tackling climate change when setting out support for the project in a National Policy Statement (NPS).
The appeal was brought by a group of councils in London affected by the expansion, environmental charities including Greenpeace, Friends Of The Earth and Plan B, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Campaigners hailed the ruling as a victory, and said it had “killed off” plans for a third runway for good and that the project is now “politically unacceptable”. The Green Party’s Caroline Russell talks to Julia about the expansion and the Government’s plans for net zero carbon emissions.
HT/Neil
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So, applying Green virtue signalling is the best way to increase global pollution and CO2 emissions.
That’s exactly what’s going on and this is exactly what Green activists want in order to continue to exist, taking at the same time some more grant from eco-taxes.
In the same vein, they want also more extreme weather events so they can justify their purpose and continue their clown show, but unfortunately, we as humans can do almost nothing in this respect to help them.
Most refreshing. Emailed my congratulations to Talk Radio. and suggested they do a series of like interviews with perhaps the inclusion of some responsible sceptical personalities to put their case.
The green solution, does not work …
Planet of the Humans
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KQnVEMOOYuJd/
Anyway, it is a fact that all of the high energy jobs will go to China, if we continue to implement the cannot work plan with a 2050 date, as China does not have a court of appeals.
And the idiots are starting fights about statues and the past that can not be changed… in addition to Climate change.
No need for a new airport if tourism is dead. The super big, very high tourism, financial center, city concept might be dead because of covid.
When costs go up and revenue goes down, city taxes must go up. That forces more companies to leave ….
So that forces taxes up again.Covid ruined the reason why people wanted to live in the large flashy, super high tourism, cities.
Ridership on the massive underground subways are down 80%. The expensive to run and maintain mass transit system were mostly losing money before covid…
A bail out does not work, if there is a permanent reduction in revenue and costs are fixed.
https://independencedaily.co.uk/from-behind-the-paywall-allister-heath-on-londons-looming-extinction-level-event/
London looming extinction event. Ditto for other very big, expensive to run, high tourism, high energy cities, such as….New York, Paris, Madrid, and so on.
No one wants to ride on high crime, underground subways. Ridership is down 80%. The companies that run the very expensive to run, keep clean, to staff, and to protect, big city underground subways, were losing money and because of covid they have lost 80% of their ridership.
Green Party’s Caroline Russell did a good job of putting people off the many insane ‘renewable’ energy schemes. Julia did an even better job of putting large holes in her arguments. We need to see more of Julia, She should tackle Grete Thunderbird next.
Hey, give Caroline Russell some credit for actually taking questions on the air. 😉 Most members of the Green Blob would simply refuse such an interview lest they end up sounding like, well, Caroline Russell.
Julia was absolutely brilliant – insightful and well informed, while maintaining a completely unruffled demeanor and unfailing politeness! A pleasure to watch (and funny as well at the expense of the Greens spokesperson!)
Julia could have picked up on the ‘dirty energy’ phrase, and pointed out that CO2 is an invisible gas. and therefore the only thing ‘dirty’ about energy from fossil fuels is that the Greens don’t like it.
Good old Julia, probably the UK’s only rationally thinking journalist.
Goodness that Donnachadh McCarthy is a blithering idiot! His “argument” is one appeal to authority after another.
I have watched her before, she is brilliant!
This interviewer is awesome!
No issue illustrates the utopian, illogical and wishful thinking mentality of enviro-fascists. So instead of allowing a 3rd runway, you’d rather have that extra capacity (when it comes back) take longer drives out to other airports (thus more emissions). Meanwhile, without a 3rd runway flights at Heathrow will have longer taxi/queue times, longer hold patterns in the air waiting to land, etc. etc., raising emissions. They’re happy to waste billions of taxpayer dollars dragging out every project, which also increases emissions, since all economic activity has associated energy use. They just don’t get that restricting supply doesn’t erase the demand.
Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe. People say that that volume would transfer to Frankfurt once Britain is full extracted from the EU. Yeah right! There are hundreds of thousands of service industry providers in and around the airport that would have nothing else to do for gainful employment. Green MP’s would be lynched. But also listen to the other projects that are at risk, rail projects for instance.
Rail Projects? If you are referring to the ridiculous HS2, which is proposed to (very expensively) reduce the London to Birmingham time by up to 20 minutes? And why Birmingham, I must ask? Humourist Mike Harding once said “If the world had piles, that’s where they’d be!”
Having, in the last decade, travelled between Liverpool and London by both the ‘ordinary’ rail and the car (with the inevitable speed limits, tailbacks, and queues) I know that even an ‘ordinary’ train is pretty good compared to road.
I guess HS2 would be affected, I am not sure, just a comment was made in the video about other infrastructure projects road and rail. But I do miss the old HST trains. Paddington to Fishguard, Newbury to Paddington. M5 and M6 corridors have always been a nightmare.
I think the idea is that we deplorables shouldn’t be allowed to travel. Turn your mind to all the celebs, royals and ‘Davos people’ who tell us to travel less as they step aboard their private jets and yachts. If they could get away with it, they would legislate to prevent us from travelling altogether. But since they wouldn’t get away with it, they’ll fall back on plan B, which is to tax us out of using private cars and travelling by plane. As an example, look at the London congestion tax, which, broadly speaking, applies to most vehicles travelling in certain parts of London during the working week. Since the object of it is to reduce congestion, wouldn’t something such as a number plate odds and evens arrangement be fairer to all road users. But, no, a tax was introduced. The tax is just chump change to the wealthy and it has the added advantage of removing all of us beastly lower class people from the streets so that the privileged don’t have their senses soiled by our presence.
Their goals seem more attainable (to me) than 6 months ago. I am totally amazed at how pliable and willing to be regimented most Americans have shown themselves to be with the House Arrests (Lockdowns & Forced Unemployment) and Mandatory Mask Laws.
As a short timer (my doctors indicate I have a year, maybe two), I likely will be able to escape most of the bad stuff our country faces. My kids won’t be so lucky, unfortunately.
Has anyone done the calculation on the amount of rare metals that will need to be dug up to build all those windmills, solar panels, batteries for EVs et?. Surely we are gong to see the number of quarries and mines multiply enormously meaning the environment for very large numbers of people is going to be totally trashed so Britain can be clean and still comfortable. Similarly the landscape and offshore is going to be totally blighted in every direction by solar panels, wind farms and transmission lines. What’s more SOMEONE is going to have to provide the base load power for the no sun/wind occasions. Meaning of course that there will need to be getting on for double the needed generation capacity. The green dream is totally unrealistic, I don’t know why anyone gives credence to that rubbish! Over the longer term we SHOULD be working on sustainability and equity. Carrying on as usual and offloading the cost and impact of our consumption elsewhere is greedy and chauvinistic.
If I wasn’t already married to a woman like this, I know who I would be asking out…even with the funny accent. (She’d probably get used to it, though.)
At least we have a couple of decent journalists.
But that’s about it.
This is old news, first posted on YouTube 28 Feb 2020.
The legal ruling has almost no effect. It is purely that projects like that need to have an assessment of how it will effect the Paris Accord targets. The government created a law to that effect and then did not obey it in this proposal. Somebody just needs to spend a day or so writing an assessment and the legal requirement is meet.
If you want to know just hoe pathetic the background knowledge of the active Greens is, simply ask them a straight question that has a recognised right answer.
Maybe ask “what level of CO2 in the atmosphere is too low for animals and plants to survive”.
You will be un-surprised to learn they have not got an clue.
So confident of the level of ignorance in play, within the current political class. I offered to vote for which ever parliamentary candidate could answer that question correctly at a hustings ( a place where would be constituency MPs in the UK, offer their views on a panel type setting all together) back in 2017. The panel had a Labour Dr. person, the sitting Tory MP, a LibDem councillor and a Green party zealot. Not one of them was able to answer. I would have accepted a range of below 200 PPM with 150 PPM being game over.
The depth of ignorance is striking, but it simply reflects the lack of debate about the climate subjects, by the Greens. They are instructed not to debate anything, so they don’t. They are told to instruct others not listen to what others may have to say.
What could possibly go wrong?
The fundamental point I take from this video is our lives are being run by those without the knowledge or experience of the issues at hand. This is a function of many whose analytic theology is based on “Descartes Corollary” (I think therefore I’m right).
The consequences of this kind of thinking are: the rest of us must be subjected to a loss of our “God Given” rights and liberty because the local mob think they’re God, and must be totalitarian in achieving their goals. The primary benefit of free markets, as opposed to this totalitarian claptrap, where people have the freedom to choose what to buy, for what purpose, and what benefits themselves, is people are free and not subject to the whim of whatever local “mob” arises, like a summer thunderstorm in Colorado.
I can see that both the green twit and the xr twit were cornered about rising renewable costs they both fell back to energy efficiency and insulating as how bills will go down, completely capitulating on their initial position that it’s cheaper
Nothing but lies
Julia Hartley-Brewer for Energy Minister..!!
WHAT a breath of fresh air – I felt quite perky after watching this interview…