You’re going to get a week of this from all sides so brace yourselves! The Express today has its lead story
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“ENERGY BILLS TO RISE BY £230
Government's green 'tax' means we all pay more...and it is gone with the wind
HOUSEHOLD fuel bills will rocket by more than £200 a year thanks to a new Government plan for “green” energy to be unveiled this week.
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The sheer scale of the lunacy beggars belief. While the Bank of England, economists and perhaps even the Treasury [though NOT the goverrnment] , worry about repaying debts by domestic cuts or tax rises of perhaps £22 billion a year to stave off national bankruptcy the clmate change obsessives ignore the real cooling world. Here is an example where the government is proposing quite unnecessarily to throw away £1.2 trillion over the next 40 years.
That’s £30 billion a year! All this is to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions although it is now proven that CO2 has no effect at all on Global warming! In any case for the last decade we’ve had global cooling, although the world’\s politicians choose to ignore this inconvenient fact.
The CBI has woken up to this horror story and says that immediate action to speed nuclear generation must be put in hand now. Failure to act could result in electricity prices for both industry and consumers rising by 30% by 2030.
Christina
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13.7.09
1. CARBON DATA - The cost of going green
[I have, perforce to translate a graphic in the paper to text here, hopefully in a way that can be understood. -cs]
Britain faces a bill of up to £1.2 trillion to meet the agreed target set by G8 nations to cut carbon dioxide emissions in each country by 80% by 2050, according to new reesearch. (Full story B3 [where nothing wjatsoever on the subject is to be found! -cs] )
G8 countries are targeting an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050
Total cost for the UK is up to £12 trillion - Source INENCO
Estimated cost of making all transport low carbon by switching to electric or fuel-efficient vehicles - £600 billion
Estimated cost of moving the majority of industrial and domestic energy needs to low-carbon electricity - £350 billion
Estimated cost of moving all heating from gas boilers to low-carbon equivalent - £250 billion
2..Household energy bills certain to rise, says Ed Miliband
Household energy bills will have to rise "whatever route we go down", Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has admitted.
By Jon Swaine
Mr Miliband conceded that families face increases in their bills - with some estimating an annual rise of more than £200 - whether or not the Government spends millions of pounds on funding "green" energy production.
"There are upward pressures on energy prices, whatever route we go down," Mr Miliband said.
Britain is faced with the choice of "sticking with where we are" and being "exposed to swings in oil prices" or developing a "plan for the low carbon future - and that does mean some costs to transition," [“Some costs” is easy to say so casually but not so ewasy to pay especially when salaries and welfare payments are being cut -cs] he said.
Mr Miliband was speaking in advance of his unveiling of the Government's renewable energy strategy on Wednesday.
He described the strategy as a "route map" through which Britain would meet its internationally-agreed commitment to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent of 1990 levels by 2050.
It is expected to say that Britain must spend more than £100 billion on building its renewable energy infrastructure by 2020, with funding coming from a levy on energy bills - meaning a rise of up to 20 per cent or more than £200.
While about 2 per cent of Britain's energy is derived from renewable sources at present, the Government has promised to increase this to 15 per cent within the next 12 years. [This is pie-in-the-sky stuff. They’ve barely started on nuclear power, done nothing about tidal power and merely throw money -our money - at useless windfarms which don’t work! -cs]
However, Mr Miliband warned that the wider cost of failing to plan for a future based on renewable energy would be far higher.
"We will have a lot more of those extremes of weather and that has got big human costs in Britain," he told the BBC Andrew Marr programme. It has also got massive financial costs as well, far outweighing any costs of making the transition and planning for it."
The plan is expected to contain measures including cash payments - rather than merely a reduction in bills - to households who contibute electricity to the National Grid through their own windmills or solar panels.
The Government hopes to replicate the success of so-called "feed-in tariffs" in Germany, where about 400,000 households took advantage of the scheme by installing solar panels.
However, critics have said that the plan lacks the generous subsidies offered by the German authorities, which allow households or streets to buy the expensive equipment needed to start producing power in the first place.
Instead the Government is expected to offer "pay as you save" plans - with some groups lobbying for low-interest "green mortgages" - in order to fund the installation of solar panels, wind turbines and other energy-saving equipment.
And in recognition of the fact that on average people move house before making back the money invested in energy saving measures through reduced bills, the Government plans to fix the cost of the measures to the house, rather than the home-owner.
Greg Clark, the Tory energy and climate spokesman, accused the Government of "stealing" Tory ideas on energy saving. "I feel proud that Miliband is a convert to recycling our ideas," he said. [They’re just as bonkers, it seems! -cs]
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has accused the Government of allowing uncertainty over the planning laws to discourage big firms from investing in the large projects - including nuclear and "clean" coal power plants - needed for the renewable energy plan.
It said that the Government must quickly publish long-promised National Policy Statements - in which they outline the case for large infrastructure projects - to ensure companies have enough information to plan investment.
Richard Lambert, the CBI director general: "Businesses are not going to commit to building the new wind, nuclear and clean coal power stations that will be needed to keep the lights on if they think the goal posts are going to get shifted further down the line."
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