Why is DECC so defensive about the costs of renewable energy?
Policy Exchange this morning published a research note estimating that the full cost of UK subsidies for renewable energy would by 2020, for an average household, be £400. This research built on...
View ArticleDoes Britain's forgotten holy ground spell out a warning for the future?
Hartcliffe is not the first place you’d look for holy ground. A vast, deprived, post-war housing estate on the southern edge of Bristol – reputedly one of the most problematic in Britain – it long ago...
View ArticleHow Dave can still lead the 'greenest government ever' and save his party,...
My campaign as the Anti Wind Farm candidate in the Corby and East Northants is going very well, thank you. I now have a brilliant website at http://www.delingpoleforcorby.co.uk/ (thanks Donna...
View ArticleIs the Government at last seeing sense on wind farms?
Too little too late, is the verdict of the brilliant Allister Heath on the Tories' near-non-existent recovery strategy. I'm 90 per cent with him. Like Allister, I believe that the Tory high command...
View ArticleAt last, Mr Cameron calls in the grown-ups
Two significant announcements from No 10 this morning that should give the carpers (yes, I include myself) something to cheer quietly about. John Hayes is leaving the energy brief to become the Prime...
View ArticleHayes, Fallon, deckchairs, Titanic
You know what? There was a time – perhaps as recently as six or twelve months ago – when I would have been seriously heartened by the news of Cameron's latest mini reshuffle. I'm a massive fan of the...
View ArticleOsborne's tax breaks for frackers: at once too much and too little – and far,...
Two cheers for George Osborne's latest announcement on tax breaks for frackers. Actually, maybe one cheer, because I can see at least a couple of things seriously wrong with it. The first is that it is...
View ArticleFive reasons why the Conservatives deserve to lose the next election
1. Cowardice. Whose bright idea was it to ban Nigel Farage from speaking at the Tory conference in Manchester? And what kind of signal does this send out to all those waverers in the party wondering...
View ArticleNuclear power vs wind farms: the infographic the Government doesn't want you...
Hat-tip to our Energy Correspondent Emily Gosden for this Department of Energy & Climate Change infographic. It was deleted from Gov.uk this week "because of sensitivities", according to a DECC...
View ArticleWind farm noise: a government cover-up
How good it was seeing wind industry skullduggery exposed on the front page of today's Telegraph. But there's plenty more where that came from, I can assure you. The way the noise regulations governing...
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