Unthreaded
Meanwhile, offshore wind is still to the fore in government thinking:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/07/22/minister-outline-major-boost-wind-power/
It's pay-walled, but sufficient is visible to get the gist of it.
DaveS
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:59 PM | tomo
It may be window dressing, but it opens the way for a policy U-Turn, based on accurate guesstimates (which may be far lower than currently anticipated) not the failed Green dogma that infests the corridors and offices of MPs and Civil Servants.
It is a start!
golf charlie
Ah Pcar I got POP working
It was the old MS fake errors
'#1 we'll tell you to use the automatic option even though you need the manua
#2 We'll tell you the password is wrong even tho it's something else.'
I worked out to go into manual
... and that the port number must be appended to the server adddres with a ":995"
POP fetches the old inbox but not the sent , so there is some moving around of folders to do
and I have to import the address book somehow
stewgreen
gc
the exploration concession is window dressing - I sincerely doubt that Ms. Perry would have endorsed it were it otherwise.
There is simply too much peculated monies to be had from flogging the renewablles donkey at present and roundly rinsing the taxpayers and electricity / heating consumers who have little or no say in funding PR gestures - the Smart Meter gang are caning the TV ad budget I see too....
I saw an example of the amount of money available for enviro PR this weekend - a TfL single decker electric bus decked out inside like a Disney rainforest experience parked on Regent Street in London for 5 hours at an estimated £8k to £10k cost.
tomo
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:11 PM | tomo
The concession on Permitted Development is for Fracking EXPLORATION only, not actual extraction.
I share your suspicion! BUT, this means that no Local Authority can now unreàsonably oppose an application to "explore". If they did, it could be appealed direct to the Government's Planning Inspectors (I think!)
A Local Authority will retain the rights to Determine Applications for actual extraction by fracking, whilst explorations continue across the country, to assess how much shale gas there actually is. Currently, all figures are based on educated guesswork, unfortunately some of the guesswork has been carried out by those educated in opposing fracking by any means, fair or foul.
By contrast, the SNP have blanket banned fracking, and may lose out on future power.
golf charlie
@Pcar Pop should work, but Outlook doesn't like to talk to the Godaddy servers
Sens out no problem , but so far timing out as it trie to download
stewgreen
These road pollution asthma stats
Does this come from data from the British road cycling team.
... the way a bunch of normal blokes get into cycling, then after a few years they have progressed up the rankings, but have discovered they are asthmatics and need heavy does of asthma drugs ?
stewgreen
Are you the same as the metrolibs BBC put on Radio4 ?
Just now prog is about children and tech
“In our house we all play a game where you are the friend of a Syrian migrant as SHE makes her way across Europe.”
Next prog : book of the week appears to be autobiography of a Palestinian living in the West Bank
10am Womans Hours
“Now we’ll talk about podcasting”
.. “Here are the team from Mothers Against Climate Change”
… “Oh it’s hot”
MACC “Yes it is happening and we are not interested in talking about deniers”
12pm :Y&Y "And ten years after people on one Scottish island got their own green power system going, we hear why more islands could now follow their lead."
stewgreen
A mild dose of irony at Farnborough Airshow for CAGW believers.
Febrile corporate PR gestures have a special sort of self awareness.
As to the "allowed development" planning concession for shale exploration drilling - I do believe it's simply window dressing - the reality is that bureaucrats, especially the Environment Agency have inveigled themselves a raft of showstopping and obstructive administrative measures that render them into the position of gatekeepers to fracking.
The farce that is UK energy policy still looks to be sliding into the clattering diesel in every back garden scenario.
tomo
Tomo
In the 50s and 60s when I was nowt but a lad virtually every farm had an army surplus diesel generator, we were an exception, on a still winter's night the sound of single cylinder diesel engines chugging away carried for miles. Had her ladyship not decided to refurbish the lodge at the head of the Glen for 2 months deerstalking every autumn then those diesels would not have been redundant in the 60s and would either still be operating or be back up to wind solar and battery.