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@Robert Christopher ..Sir Crispin Tickell has been smoking the same dope as his son Oliver the Ecologist editor who wrote ISIS's target was COP21.
Maybe Conservativehome.com is going to merge with the wacky magazine as BHers have mentioned 2 articles in 24hrs
#1 Sir Crispin (Antoinette) Tickell moaning about subsidy cuts "at a time when energy bills are lower than ever" (17 comments)
#2 Ben Caldecott and Nick Hurd MP: Why coal-fired power stations have to go
41 comments e.g. "It woudl be good if future such articles explained how the proposals contained would affect energy prices and help keep energy intensive industries in UK"
stewgreen
True Germany, China and everyone else are building coal
It's cheap ..if you have coal, you just take it out of the ground
..there's something good about having a mix of reliables....frack-on
stewgreen
@Ross context is everything
#1 They are moving to gas
#2 It's fake cos no one has invested in coal since Drax update in 1995, todays coal plants are so old they weren't going to last much past 2025 anyway ...........will Drax go gas ?
The article ends
It is hoped that announcing a coal closure date will send a signal to investors that will spur investment in new gas power plants.Why give the last word to GreenFright ?Environmental group Greenpeace said it would welcome a move away from coal, but criticised a new “dash for gas” which it said would “lock in more dirty power than we actually need”, arguing ministers should support renewables instead.
stewgreen
Has the UK Government gone mad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/12001752/UK-coal-plants-must-close-by-2025-Amber-Rudd-to-announce.html
29% of your energy supply to be closed when the country is already on a knife edge re energy supplies. I know it is all timed for Paris but why can the Secretary not look at what Asian countries have planned ?
Ross
Like the anticapitalists who always tag onto these things, they've been given a lot of rope in the past. A few invasion stunts into big companies, a march with pushing and shoving the police and a bit of a riot in the evening with the obligatory trashed Mc Ds. I'm not sure anyone will be in a mood to take it in good spirit. I'm hoping they realise that and call it off.
TinyCO2
TinyCO2, they are urging inexperienced innocents to be the next John Charles de Menezes'.
That's bad for the innocent and very bad for the police officers.
And they are useful idiots who camouflage the real threats.
M Courtney
"What is wrong with these people?" turningtide.
Before or after they spook a nervous French police officer? Or get in the way of a member of IS trying to prove that AGW is not the most urgent problem we face?
TinyCO2
At least the posts on this Conservative Home article show that a few are in possession of a few facts:
Sir Crispin Tickell [a former diplomat and UK Ambassador to the United Nations, with a Modern History degree :) ]: Britain should lead on energy policy, not retreat from its successes
http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2015/11/sir-crispin-tickell-britain-should-lead-on-energy-policy-not-retreat-from-its-successes.html
Robert Christopher
Utterly irresponsible climate activists. The Graun is reporting on the deadlock over the planned Climate March, to take place during the Cop 21 shindig.
Paris climate summit march in doubt after talks deadlock
There's a quote from someone called John Jordan, who the Guardian describes as a "prominent activist involved in plans for civil disobedience at the summit’s end". He says:
“One idea is to decentralise the whole thing and tell people: ‘Now is the time to really take disobedience into your own cities.’ That was always part of the plan but maybe it needs to be ramped up.”
Utterly disgusting that this self-appointed saviour of the planet would encourage people to do something that would divert the police and security services away from their focus on tackling terrorism and keeping people safe. What is wrong with these people?
turningtide
It would appear that the speech from Amber Rudd about closing coal-fired power stations and security of supply is today. Hazzabin was talking his usual dross. But somebody sensible mentioned baseload and despatchables (is this the first time on the BBC?) and obviously the interviewer didn't know what he was talking about. Following yesterday evening's BBC4 programme about SSE power stations (Ferrybridge closure), hopefully the message is getting through. It should be an interesting speech.