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Financial TImes (Northern Ireland)
Northern Ireland leader feels the heat over energy initiative
First minister ensnared in controversy over scheme to help businesses move to renewables
extract (my bold)
The pressure on Ms Foster to explain her role is coming from the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP, which are working together in opposition at Stormont. The SDLP has tabled a no-confidence motion, which could be voted on during Monday’s debate. Sinn Féin, in coalition with the DUP in the executive, has called for a public inquiry, but appears for the moment to be backing the first minister.https://www.ft.com/content/e486acd6-c383-11e6-81c2-f57d90f6741a
SandyS
a seasonal ho-ho-ho
Give us £30 extra on your energy bills and we won't shut off your power. say the Green goons at The Press Association.
tomo
Entropic Man
You might well be correct, for all I know - you are after all closer to the action than I am. However, I suggest it is incontrovertible that the scam could not have got off the ground had it not been for the AGW scaremongering, and had it not passed itself off as being "green."
By the way, nowhere did I suggest it was a "green conspiracy". My words were "that "environmentalism"and climate alarmism have given scamsters the opportunity to make money out of the taxpayer in quite illegitimate ways."
I do wish you would read what I write with a little more care. Sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't express myself as clearly as I would like, but generally I do choose my words with care.
Mark Hodgson
AGW sea level rise boondogglers break cover - a bit....
The EA
There is evidence to suggest rivers in parts of England are rising, owing to climate change
What is notable here is that £1.8 billion is tentatively earmarked - it has to be assumed - for the long in gestation TE2100 project that keeps not getting mentioned by name - even though the EA has spent loads on it already ....
@TinyCO2
The Guardian ... power cuts ... no comments - what is interesting for me about present power bills is that most consumers are paying ca. 12% in "voluntary" Green levy without being aware of it (in addition to overpriced renewables) and when you spell that out to them - most are v.indignant. Two people I know tried to get their suppliers to remove the charges - but they couldn't get the companies concerned to even acknowledge that the levy was there and was voluntary....
tomo
@Entropic man
NI RHI is not a Green conspiracy, it is an Orange conspiracy.
Provide proof DUP & UU were alone and SF, SDLP, Alliance & Greens voted against.
Given NI Assembly (non-democratic) system requires ruling & opposition to both vote "yes" to new laws, you can't [snip-manners. TM]
Pcar
People are waking up to the hazards of an unreliable grid,
TinyCO2
BBCs Katty Kay Twitterfeed is totally activist not Impartial
stewgreen
Mark Hodgson
NI RHI is not a Green conspiracy, it is an Orange conspiracy.
Entropic man
@SandyS I created a new discussion on NI RHi Scandal