Back to skool for Labour
December 18, 2019
Big fights still continue within the Labour Party regarding what future (if any) nuclear fission should have.
Tag: gossage
Champagne Perry
December 17, 2019
Those who follow these matters will know that each December somewhere in the world there is a Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Rio Convention on Climate Change. Here Government foregather to discuss, and frequently announce, what they are doing to
PV piffle
December 10, 2019
Time spent reading the Hansard reports of House of Lords’ Question Time is seldom wasted.
Putting your own house in order
November 19, 2019
More than 1,000 United Nations employees have called for the global body to reduce its carbon footprint, including through curbs on their own diplomatic perks like business class flights and travel handouts, plus cutting back on the amount of wasteful heating and/or air
Loathsome is as loathsome does
November 5, 2019
Andrea Leadsom is the new(ish) Business Secretary. Which means that, amongst other things, she oversees energy policy in the UK under Al “Boris” Johnson.
Very un-smart meters
October 30, 2019
Nobody now pretends that the long-standing Government target, to put 63 million smart meters, into every home and SME by this January, stands any chance of being met. What is most galling is the news that eight out of the 25 electricity
Bar RAB
October 30, 2019
According to the latest wheeze from the Business and Energy Department, future nuclear power projects should be funded via something called the ‘Regulated Asset Base’ system. Called RAB for short.
Atomic nightmare
October 15, 2019
I accept that no Annual Report issued by the Business and Energy department, BEIS, is ever likely to make the Sunday Times’ best sellers list. But as part of my devotion to my readers, I have been perusing the recently issued 2019
Cluster muster
October 7, 2019
Energy companies have ignited multibillion-pound plans in the Humber region for the UK’s first carbon-neutral “industrial cluster”.
For discerning bachelors only
September 30, 2019
Some really insightful news from the September issue of the high-society magazine, Tatler; the day of the ‘trophy wife’ is dead.