Campaign to highlight the serious economic and societal implications of expensive and poorly considered climate and energy policies #CostOfNetZero
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Labour MPs have accused Andy Burnham of hypocrisy over his ban on drilling for new oil and gas in the UK, saying that importing oil and gas while banning Britain's own drilling is an absurd "act of self-harm". dailysceptic.org/2026/11/05/…
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Andy Burnham promised a 'pragmatic' approach to oil and gas - he lied.
Labour's plan to outlaw new oil and gas drilling is totally ideological and will destroy jobs in my constituency.
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Outlawing your own supply of oil & gas in the middle of an energy crisis while still depending on oil & gas is just a dumb.
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👇Anger…doesn’t really cover how the people of the North East of Scotland feel about the Labour Government and their total disregard for them, their jobs and our region.
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“This is the height of Orwellian doublespeak.”
Our Director, @cmackinlay, on how the Energy Independence Bill would leave Britain more reliant on foreign energy, while denying new oil and gas revenues to the Treasury.
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Do follow the brilliant @KathrynPorter26
The balancing costs of c £50 million a day are a way to make the pursuit of net zero look like it’s working fine - it so isn’t.
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Don't forget the £24 VAT relief
We should be grateful to this bountiful government
Now how much are my taxes going up?
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This Can Not Go On.
Renewables are only viable if they get crippling subsidies.
"The British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion to support electricity generated from renewable sources," says @CMorrisonEsq, warning the cost of numerous direct and indirect annual subsidies could "exceed UK defence spending by 2030."
"However many lies are told, the fact remains that running an electricity grid on intermittent wind and solar is for the surviving birds."
#CostOfNetZero
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So there we have it. Probably the highest day ever in the BM at over £52 million
The final number tends to be a bit higher than the trading figure reported by LCP
This is what Connect & Manage has done... We spent £52 million because we had to throw away wind in Scotland that we built despite knowing we can't use it
Plus NESO not curtailing it before the DA auction meaning instead of gas plant self dispatching it has to be bid on in the BM
@Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk
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Renewables will cause a grid collapse sooner or later, and when it happens, the industry will lie through its teeth and blame anything but the actual cause - and the media will swallow the narrative wholesale. No lessons will be learned. The policy will not change. Power supply will become ever more expensive and precarious, until we're into full blown energy rationing. Warnings will fall on deaf ears.
It’s official: a legal investigation has found engineers in Britain’s electricity grid control room are stressed because renewables make it so hard to keep the lights on. And when they raise concerns, managers won’t listen - they only want “good news”
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It is extraordinary that NESO’s takeaway is that the core allegations made by the whistleblowers are unsubstantiated.
As I’ve always said, the core allegation is that the electricity grid is not being run securely. In that respect, the Eversheds report is utterly damning.
Not only does it say that renewables are making our grid more difficult to manage, but it says that several engineers in the control room profoundly disagree with NESO management’s claim that the grid was secure on 23rd June.
There are multiple serious problems highlighted - from a culture of managers only wanting to hear ‘good news’, to poor record keeping, and, most concerningly, a reluctance to action complaints from engineers because of the need to 'keep stakeholders happy'.
In other words, managers are failing to improve the security of our electricity grid because keeping Ministers in DESNZ happy is seen as more important.
NESO's Chief Executive earns close to £1 million a year and the whole organisation costs the better half of a billion pounds to run. The country and billpayers deserve better.
Government should be holding NESO to account, but instead, Ministers spent their time attacking me for raising the control room engineers' concerns and for making sure that any kind of investigation took place at all.
If this had been washed under the carpet, then where would we be?
A grid that is increasingly at risk and Ministers who, frankly, preferred to be asleep at the wheel rather than to do their jobs and protect our electricity supply.
With regards to the engineers' concerns on corporate affairs and record keeping, Eversheds did not give a clean bill of health as NESO is claiming. They found that a culture of 'reputational sensitivity' does indeed affect operational decision-making, and recommended several changes to correct significant failures in record keeping practices.
While I am on maternity leave, the Conservative team will continue to press the Government on this issue, because the bottom line is this: if we cannot trust NESO management to be honest about our ability to keep the lights on, how can they stay in their roles?
I look forward to the release of Ofgem's investigation on whether the grid was run securely on 23rd June. But we do now know that the control room strongly feel that it wasn’t.
An independent investigation has found no evidence to substantiate the core allegations against NESO around operational decision-making and record-keeping.
It constructively identifies areas where we could improve how colleagues can raise concerns and how we respond to them. We will act on the recommendations and be open with colleagues about our progress.
Read the report: bit.ly/4jtGewn
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The GWPF is delighted to announce that Kathryn Porter (@KathrynPorter26) has been appointed to our Board of Trustees.
Kathryn brings a wealth of technical expertise on energy and is dedicated to educating policymakers from across the political spectrum about this crucial subject.
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The New Statesman's cover story is a welcome retreat from Net Zero, written by @EdConwaySky. Is it time for journalists to start asking some pretty pointed questions of DESNZ and the CCC?
Conway is great, but unfortunately gets it wrong when he says "There is a point – most likely a decade and a half in the future – at which the savings from net zero (less spent on gas and fuels) should outweigh the costs of building all the necessary infrastructure."
Because increasing renewables capacity leads to increasing curtailment (due to overgeneration), that simply cannot be true.
If Ed would like me to show him why, I'm happy to help. I hope to heaven he isn't taking the CCC's word at face value.
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"We have this idea of climate leadership, and yet never has it been spelled out what the benefits are to the average citizen in the UK."
Countries are looking enviously at America and China's energy security and growth, not ours.
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@Miatsf and @mgshanks need to see this. The plans for GB are the same.... Massive overbuild of the grid to accommodate the intermittency of wind and solar the cost of which is added to our bills
The post quotes Katherina Reiche, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in Germany addressing the German Parliament...
"For too long, the production costs of wind and photovoltaics from the plant have been declared as the sole costs of the energy transition.
"The cost of the overall system was lost sight of, redispatch, nets and secured performance were “discentively ignored”.
"A power system must bring together 8,760 hours a year of generation and consumption and also function without wind and solar.
"In addition to the existing infrastructure of controllable power plants, we are building a weather-dependent generation structure without being able to do without secured power.
"In addition, there are grids, storage, control energy, redispatch and reserve. The less frequent backup power plants run, the fewer operating hours their fixed costs bear.
"There are no two parallel infrastructures for the price of one."
Economic reality: moving to a grid based on wind and solar is very very expensive and policymakers have ignored many of the costs because they want to think renewables are cheap. They're not
@AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @griffitha @cmackinlay @TiceRichard @AndyBurnham @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @julietsamuel
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I have written about this before when the BBC did their silly report on French banquets and when @Madz_Grant wrote an excellent piece on the Two Fat Ladies back in May for The Spectator.
This goes well beyond the old class politics of the countryside. Hunting and other rural traditions have historically been attacked as symbols of privilege and hierarchy. But there is now another dimension…
Net Zero requires substantial changes to land use and fewer cattle and sheep by 2050 (see Carbon Budget 7).
The Blob knows that livestock farming is sustained by a wider culture that treats grazing animals and the traditions surrounding them as normal features of country life. Changing the land-use settlement therefore also means challenging some of the cultural assumptions that sustain it.
Seen in that context, the sneering at Labradors, country pubs and a pint of ale starts to make rather more sense.
🚨 EXCL: Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black labradors are a 'far-Right' fantasy that 'never really existed’
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Both Ed Miliband & Ed Davey are guilty of enabling the devastation of our energy security
Thus damaging our national security
Grotesque negligence
Since 2009, Britain has lost five main-fuels refineries. Every one closed while either @Ed_Miliband or @EdwardJDavey was Energy Secretary. They include:
1) Teesside (2009) - Ed Miliband
2) Coryton (2012) - Ed Davey
3) Milford Haven (2014) - Ed Davey
4) Grangemouth (2025) - Ed Miliband
5) Lindsey (2025) - Ed Miliband
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Since 2009, Britain has lost five main-fuels refineries. Every one closed while either @Ed_Miliband or @EdwardJDavey was Energy Secretary. They include:
1) Teesside (2009) - Ed Miliband
2) Coryton (2012) - Ed Davey
3) Milford Haven (2014) - Ed Davey
4) Grangemouth (2025) - Ed Miliband
5) Lindsey (2025) - Ed Miliband