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Feb 2, 2017 at 2:49 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Coincidence cos I just propped by to report pg 44 Times
- Guardian losses heading for £90m, so far upto £60m

Feb 2, 2017 at 1:11 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

May I point you towards this remarkable article on the Guardian?
The great enemy of fake news that is the Guardian Green section is today reporting that fossil fuel growth will stop growing (e.g. peak) in the next three years.

Yes. That’s right. Three years</b?.

They also think that coal in the US was displaced by wind and solar and not fracked gas.

But even more remarkable are the commenters below the line. It is truly a remarkable skill to be able to use a keyboard whilst the men in white coats hold onto a straitjacket.

Feb 2, 2017 at 12:57 PM | Unregistered CommenterM Courtney

Clipe. I see no problem per se with the recipients of aid knowing where that aid came from, a proviso being that any such indications of origin should be discrete. As for aid generally, disaster/emergency relief is one thing, developmental aid another. Unlike ACK I regard setting the aid budget as a fixed proportion of 'wealth' as utter nonsense, and a demonstration of just how childish Parliament has become.

Feb 2, 2017 at 12:40 PM | Unregistered CommenterDaveS

They are reportedly testing Toyota's new £66,000 Mirai hydrogen cell car and hope that it could be a replacement for their current front line response vehicles.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4181176/Met-police-orders-new-fleet-hybrid-electric-cars.html#ixzz4XWU52io5

Free from Toyota I suspect (hope !)

Feb 2, 2017 at 10:40 AM | Unregistered CommenterRoss Lea

I think no one would object to aid for projects such as wells, solar panels for rural areas (until grid power becomes available), Hi tec. cooking stoves including those with a solar reflector. Interest free loans to poor farmers and businesses.
However this aid should be supplied and implemented directly by us and not the local despots. Aid to governments for Space projects and the like or millions to Ethiopian Girl bands should be stopped immediately and diverted to the above good causes.

Feb 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM | Unregistered CommenterRoss Lea

Clipe. Two conflated issues here - waste of overseas aid of which I have no problem and identification of aid material as coming from the donating country that you characterize as "virtual signalling". Why shouldn't the British public get credit for their largesse?
I recall going to a village in The Gambia where the most prominent feature was a very large water well. This, according to a plaque on it was paid for by Saudi Arabia. Why shouldn't the Saudis get credit for this most appropriate aid? Why shouldn't all donating countries get credit?
I am quite pround of the fact that my country (ie some of my taxes) donates a small, but fixed, proportion of its wealth to helping others (and is one of a very few countries to do so). I am not convinced that my country's bureaucrats employ this money appropriately or to achieve maximum benefit.

Feb 2, 2017 at 8:05 AM | Unregistered CommenterACK

The narcissism of foreign aid

This is high-visibility virtue signalling...

Image says it all

Feb 2, 2017 at 2:57 AM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/peter-foster-the-boreal-forest-agreement-was-just-an-eco-radical-shakedown-now-thankfully-its-finally-being-killed

So what exactly is the CBFA, why was it a bad deal, and why is everybody so keen to claim that it is still nailed to its perch?

Feb 1, 2017 at 10:58 PM | Unregistered Commenterclipe

messenger , Robert Christopher

from the FB link messenger posted - it looks like ca. 1 turbine a year has been suffering structural failure north of the border

The usual self serving BS on load factor and wonkt electrical terminology abound as usual.

I wrote up a bit of detail about the make and model + a bit of huff 'n puff .

@clipe
HMRC will no doubt take note. When America sneezes etc. I wonder if any of our UK domestic protesters are on minimum wage? Some of the sh1t stirrers on the media do rather well I suspect from honorariums from their sponsors and well remunerated but not overly burdensome task-ettes. The opaqueness of "charities" will be in there somewhere.

Feb 1, 2017 at 10:46 PM | Registered Commentertomo

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