More Delingpole

David Allen Green is very upset that I suggested he was trying to pressure Delingpole into doing another interview. I'll check over my sources now. It's possible I got the wrong end of the stick.

Update on Jan 31, 2011 by Bishop Hill

No, I've definitely got that wrong. Apologies to David Allen Green.

Comments

[Mike Davis]

Frosty:
Think of it as a Laxative for your purse! Maybe even in the category of an Enema to flush your earnings!

[BBD]

Totally OT

Reading in the Sunday Times about the proposed sell-off of Forestry Commission land. Relatively tiny amount of money for the Treasury, all a bit baffling. Then this:

Despite the commercial opportunities, ConFor [Confederation of Forest Industries] has its own concerns. It believes that the big winners from any sale would not be timber companies but energy groups who could reap large subsidies under the government's agenda to encourage renewable energy, for burning the wood as biofuel.

Suddenly this rather weird proposal makes sense. A spot of judicious lobbying here and there by canny subsidy-harvesters, an avowed energy fantasist in the form of Caroline Spelman pushing a 'green and clean' generation agenda...

Another green energy scam in the making, I'd say.

[Mailman]

BBD,

So lets see if Ive got this right...if an old oak falls over on my property and I go to chop it up for firewood Ill have the local council coming down on me harder than a fit chick on a full smarty packet! Yet here we have thousands of acres of land purposely being sold off so that energy companies can cut the trees down to burn them as biofuel??

WTF gives with that!

Mailman

[matthu]

Perhaps energy companies have another option possibly not available to the government: claiming carbon credits for NOT chopping the trees down (which can then be sold on at a profit). Not sure if I have the mechanism right here ...

[David Allen Green]

Bishop Hill,

What am to do? I have been asked to "stop" - so I did.

But still the comments and the name-calling continues. And now I am even being called a hypocrite...

Please advise.

[David. I apologise again for this. I have deleted all the comments that refer to you after my final cease and desist request.]

[BBD]

matthu

Yes, I've an idea that you can set up as a 'carbon sink' and get subsidies for that too, but I'm not so sure of the detail either.

However, I have a suspicion that the conversion of public space into private subsidy farms biofuel resources is the more lucrative option.

[Phillip Bratby]

matthu.

Not another version of not pig farming surely?

http://www.fmft.net/archives/004255.html

[Bishop Hill]

I am very saddened by commenters' failure to respond to a request to lay off. I'm closing the thread down.