Tories climate change deniers rule

 

Woorying news.

Following a leaked document on Friday, it appears that George Osborne wishes to immediately kill the successfully growing solar industry, without proper consultation and without understanding the facts.  It may be presented to Parliament on Monday. The anti-renewable lobbyists – oil, gas and nuclear giants are poise to rubbish solar power.  This may result in 25,000 semi-skilled and skilled jobs being placed at serious risk before Christmas.

The facts are

·        More energy from the sun hits the earth every minute than is required by the whole world each year

·        Its clean, safe and easy to harness and very popular with the public

·        The industry has been encouraged to invest with the promise of a Feed in Tariff fixed until 31st March 2012 and with an initial expectation that rates would be cut 9% at that time. With no warning, George Osborne is threatening to cut tariffs by 53% + in six weeks time. This will result in mass redundancy and the destruction of this Government’s green pretentions, and months of planning and investment in stock, infrastructure and training written off by UK industry.

·        Technology advances will facilitate ‘grid parity’ in as little as 5 years if the industry is allowed to develop economies of scale

·        The Feed in Tariff is not paid for by the Government, it is paid by Electricity Companies and passed on to consumers.

·        Current Feed in Tariff  take up will result in the average electricity bill increases of 0.2% - £1 per household per annum (source Ernst & Young report)

·        Other technologies (i.e. Nuclear) obtain government support that impacts the tax payer considerably more. (New nuclear capacity will cost consumers £44 per year – The Guardian)

·        Micro generation gives the grid resilience against  large scale power shortages caused by, for example, natural disasters like Japan’s Fukushima, and again provides no risk to communities and the economy

·        25,000 jobs are supported, many semi-skilled, more than the Nuclear industry and this is set to double in the next 12 months

Prepare for this mindless onslaught on the one of the most benign promising sources of energy by this ignorant Government.

Comments

[Richard]

"..and very popular with the public"

There you go again, quoting public opinion, when you've made many posts on here telling us what idiots the public are (see "Building the Ineptocracy").

As usual, it's 'right-wing media-inflamed populism' when the public say something you don't agree with but quite another matter when it concurs with your own view.