in an outright attack on the terrible waste of money they are, former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson warns today that the Coalition’s obsession with climate change is damaging Britain’s recovery from recession, Lord Lawson, one of the most respected Tory figures of recent decades, accuses the Prime Minister of risking Britain’s economy to make a ‘symbolic’ point, in a devastating verdict he writes: ‘the Government’s highly damaging decarbonisation policy, enshrined in the absurd Climate Change Act, does not have a leg to stand on, it is intended, at massive cost, to be symbolic: To make good David Cameron’s ambition to make his administration “the greenest government ever”, ‘My dictionary defines green as “unripe, immature, undeveloped”,’
he warns, that plastering Britain with wind farms will push up bills to families and businesses without producing any real benefits, the switch to ‘low-carbon’ energy is expected to add £200 to annual energy bills, ‘this price increase would be economically damaging at the best of times; and these are not the best of times,' he says it is ‘highly uncertain’ that higher carbon emissions will warm the planet to a dangerous extent and warns it is ‘futile folly’ for Britain to act alone when its emissions are two per cent of the global total, that is an interesting fact, even if the fools that believe wind power will prevail at huge costs, the benefits world wide would only be 2%, of course no other country in the world will try to go anywhere near this, as a fact to put our adsurb goals into perspective the annual increase in China’s emissions, is greater than the UK’s total emissions, also the U.S., the second-largest emitter, has made it clear that without China and India on board, there is no prospect of the U.S. signing up to anything, but us Brits will go it alone,
a second writer to join the cause is Richard Littlejohn, who today writes, 'following the revelation that we’re all paying a secret stealth tax to subsidise so-called renewable energy sources, it seems like a good time to check out exactly what we are getting for our money, (he must have read the blog), at midday yesterday, wind power was contributing just 2.2 per cent of all the electricity in the National Grid, the last time I checked the wholesale electricity industry’s official website, at the turn of the year, the figure was 1.6 per cent, during the cold snap the turbines had to be heated to stop them freezing and were actually consuming more electricity than they generated,' yes read that again, the turbines had to be heated to stop them freezing and were actually consuming more electricity than they generated,
'even on a good day, they rarely work above a quarter of their theoretical capacity, and in high winds they have to be turned off altogether to prevent damage, Britain’s 3,426 wind turbines produce no more electricity than a single, medium-sized gas-fired power station, any sane individual would conclude that wind generation is hopelessly inefficient and horribly expensive and stop throwing good money after bad, we are paying for all this through hidden charges which now make up a fifth of all gas and electricity bills, the average household has to fork out an extra £200 a year, Ministers know there would be an outcry if they raised taxes to pay for windmills, so they hide the subsidies in our gas and electricity bills and hope the energy companies get the blame,'
of course there is some good news regarding wind farms, they can some times, when it is windy, produce too much electricity, earlier this year the National Grid was forced to pay £900,000 compensation to the owners of six wind farms which were forced to close down one especially gusty night — because they were producing too much electricity and there was no capacity to store it, for National Grid read you, the bill payer, I just hope for the good of all this wind farm business is scrapped for the folly it is, but I doubt if the greenies and tree huggers will let it, way too much of your money involved.
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