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Energy Posts

Ed Miliband on walkabout

Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda will leave Britain in the dark

Published 19 September 2024

Energy companies are already warning their customers about the power cuts to come

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Ed Miliband

Miliband’s Net Zero militancy is a disaster in the making

Published 12 July 2024

His ban on North Sea oil and gas drilling has exposed his contempt for British industry and workers

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Car production

Forget Brexit – Net Zero is the real threat to the car industry

Published 2 May 2024

Extreme green targets pose an existential threat to UK carmakers

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Keir Starmer

Labour’s green extremism will leave Britain in the dark

Published 5 February 2024

Keir Starmer’s plan to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is insane

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Port Talbot steel works

Net Zero is killing British industry

Published 23 January 2024

Port Talbot steelworks is just the latest casualty of our elites’ climate-change crusade

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Port Talbot steel works

British steelmaking won’t survive Net Zero

Published 14 November 2023

The transition to eco-friendly steel is already threatening thousands of livelihoods

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Wind and fossil fuel power generation

Why wind power won’t cut our energy bills

Published 1 November 2023

Ignore the misinformation from the green lobby – Net Zero is a financial catastrophe

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Greta Thunberg

Now Greta is protesting against wind farms

Published 17 October 2023

Not even renewable energy is safe from the deluded eco-activists

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Oil refinery & energy crisis

How the war in Gaza could fuel the next energy crisis

Published 11 October 2023

The West is woefully unprepared for another oil and gas supply shock

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Heat pump investments

The pain of Net Zero is coming sooner than you think

Published 21 August 2023

The UK’s proposed bans on boilers and petrol cars will be economically devastating

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Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister

Why oil and gas are here to stay

Published 1 August 2023

The clean-energy transition is based on magical thinking

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Grant Shapps

How Net Zero will punish ordinary people

Published 13 July 2023

Households are paying a heavy price for our elites’ green dogma

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Berlin Cathedral

The EU is deepening the energy crisis

Published 24 May 2023

Brussels’ Net Zero obsession will make Europe poorer, colder and darker

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Outline of Europe

Lights Out: Is the EU failing on energy policy?

Published 22 May 2023

Let’s first remind ourselves of a very simple truth: the modern world is built on energy

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Ofgem incompetence

The shocking incompetence of Ofgem

Published 20 April 2023

Energy companies are breaking into people’s homes – and the regulator is looking the other way

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Ed Miliband

Labour’s eco-aristocracy

Published 7 April 2023

Ed Miliband’s green policies would amount to a massive bung to the wealthy

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Wind turbine at sea

The green elites are living in dreamland

Published 16 March 2023

Their ‘green industrial revolution’ is simply never going to happen

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Grant Shapps and Rishi Sunak

Net Zero is a threat to energy security

Published 13 February 2023

The UK’s new energy ministry is grappling with two contradictory goals

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Heat pump

Why the public has gone cold on heat pumps

Published 31 January 2023

The UK’s Net Zero boiler-replacement scheme has been a complete flop

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North Sea Oil

Keir Starmer’s green war on workers

Published 24 January 2023

A Labour government would sacrifice jobs, growth and energy security to Net Zero

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Energy rationing

Energy rationing is never acceptable

Published 24 November 2022

The UK government’s energy-saving campaign is an admission of failure

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Sizewell nuclear power plant

Why Sizewell C must go ahead

Published 7 November 2022

Failure to invest in nuclear power will lead to more energy crises in future

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Oxford cars

The madness of the ‘15-minute city’

Published 25 October 2022

The green agenda is taking inspiration from the illiberal days of lockdown

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Blackouts in UK

Blackouts: another dark consequence of Net Zero

Published 23 October 2022

Energy rationing is an integral feature of the green agenda

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UK power blackout

Why Britain is on the brink of blackouts

Published 16 August 2022

Complacency and green virtue-signalling have wreaked havoc with our energy supplies

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UK squandering gas reserves

The UK is squandering its gas reserves

Published 17 June 2022

Amid soaring prices and talk of blackouts, we need to get serious about energy

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Gas boilers

Net Zero is a Stalinist fantasy

Published 2 June 2022

The UK government is imposing ever more drastic and coercive measures to meet its carbon targets

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Energy Crisis

Price caps won’t solve the energy crisis

Published 20 May 2022

We need to stop tinkering with tariffs and start scaling up nuclear power

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Oil platform at sea

The energy transition we need

Published 4 May 2022

It’s time to drop the green pieties and invest in cheap and plentiful energy for all

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Wind and solar

Scrapping green taxes is not enough

Published 20 April 2022

Net Zero is the real driver of soaring energy bills

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Electricity pylon, net zero

Surge pricing for energy is a dreadful idea

Published 16 April 2022

In its crazed pursuit of Net Zero, the government is bringing back electricity rationing

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Energy Security not Net Zero

We need energy security – not Net Zero

Published 7 April 2022

The government is too beholden to green fantasies to take our energy needs seriously

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On Shell’s Brent Alpha oil platform, the North Sea, 1985

This energy crisis has deeper roots than Ukraine

Published 8 March 2022

We are paying a heavy price for decades of policy failures

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talkRADIO TV on COP26

James on talkRADIO TV discussing COP26 and Carbon Net Zero

Published 7 November 2021

James on the Kevin O’Sullivan show, talkRADIO TV, 5 November 2021, discussing COP26, Net Zero and the climate change agenda

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Offshore wind turbines

Renewables won’t keep the lights on

Published 10 October 2021

The government’s clean-energy targets are a recipe for more shortages

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Net Zero

Net Zero will take over our lives

Published 17 December 2020

The new energy White Paper will force us to obsess over the minutiae of everyday energy consumption

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Outdoor heat pumps

The heat pump revolution: extracting power from the people

Published 12 December 2020

The climate technocrats’ posturing over heat pumps will be expensive, impractical and invasive

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Charles and Greta

The prince and the profiteers

Published 25 January 2020

Prince Charles has found a new role for himself as a globe-trotting convener of ‘green finance’

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Sky News on net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Published 12 June 2019

Sky News debate with Amy Mount on the UK Government’s pledge to reach Net Zero in carbon emissions by 2050

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Sky News discussion on climate change

Climate change report

Published 2 May 2019

Sky News discussion on the latest report by the government Committee on Climate Change with Amy Mount from Greener UK and James Woudhuysen

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Sky News discussion on Extinction Rebellion

Climate change and the need for energy R&D

Published 17 April 2019

Sky News discussion on climate change and the need for energy R&D 

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Hinkley Point

Hinkley Point and the fear of nuclear

Published 15 August 2016

Delaying building a new power station is a brake on progress.

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Another fracking melodrama

Another fracking melodrama

Published 6 June 2016

For the first time, American scientists have published a paper showing that wastewater from a shale-gas well and a coalbed methane site, disposed of by injecting it into a deep well, has reached a surface stream.

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Cop21 Paris 2015

Mass wind and solar? They’re 25 years away

Published 19 December 2015

After COP21, the Paris conference on climate change, it’s time to puncture Green euphoria about renewable energy

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Our hero: Gensets provide critical power where it’s needed

Published 6 August 2015

After April, when Nepal suffered its worst earthquake in 80 years, the technology made it to the front page of the New York Times.

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George Monbiot

Fracking with George Monbiot

Published 23 August 2014

Matthew Taylor brings together James Woudhuysen and George Monbiot for a head-to-head discussion on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for the the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Agree to differ‘.

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People, your TVs are too big!

People, your TVs are too big!

Published 17 July 2014

Earlier this year, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat secretary of state for energy, hit a new low in proposals to deal with Britain’s inadequate and pricey energy supply.

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Shale Gas

Making the case for shale gas and oil

Published 3 April 2014

Both advocates and critics of fracking have it wrong. Also, both use the wrong word.

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British environmentalists love Germany’s energy policies

Published 18 February 2014

British environmentalists love Germany’s energy policies. Mistake!

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High Energy Prices

The Big Six aren’t to blame for high energy prices

Published 11 February 2014

Have Britain’s main suppliers of energy abused their monopoly position?

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IT and US Energy

IT and US energy: grids go smart, armed forces go solar

Published 27 November 2013

The US Navy is more committed to solar energy supply than mainstream investors, who prefer to massage energy demand – downwards.

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Letter from Lebanon: powering up for a brighter future

Published 31 October 2013

The Middle East needs new energy, not Europe telling it to save the stuff.

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How to make blackouts a thing of the past

Published 4 October 2012

The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources.

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Innovation in energy: expressions of a crisis

Published 23 June 2012

Using academic, journalistic and statistical sources, this paper situates energy innovation in historical context before describing the current sclerosis of Western energy R&D.

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All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy

Published 2 February 2012

Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs.

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Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears

Published 17 October 2011

When I hear the phrase “energy security”, I reach for my revolver’.

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The causes of Fukushima: report of Annual symposium of the World Nuclear Association, 2011

Published 23 September 2011

The power of the nucleus had little to do with What Went Wrong at the TEPCO nuclear reactors in 2011

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Drowning in oil by Loren C Steffy

BP’s Deepwater Horizon and Loren Steffy, Drowning in oil

Published 24 April 2011

BP became so obsessed with irrational management practices and petty health-and-safety measures that it overlooked the real safety of its workers

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An exhausted approach to the energy issue

Published 3 August 2010

The Lib-Cons ‘energy policy’ is to encourage people to use less of it rather than to generate more of it.

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Energise

The world needs abundant, cheap, clean energy

Published 30 December 2009

In an extract from their new book, Energise!, James Woudhuysen and Joe Kaplinsky argue that climate change is real, but the answer is to invest boldly in forms of power supply not moralise about personal consumption.

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Still no clear policy on nuclear energy

Published 9 November 2009

New Labour’s commitment to nuclear is half-hearted at best, and goes hand in hand with more policing of our energy use.

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New Labour’s power vacuum

Published 21 October 2009

The UK government’s obsession with energy self-sufficiency and renewables looks set to lead to blackouts in the next few years.

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The green man’s burden

Published 7 July 2009

Why is Greenpeace calling on the UK to set an example to nations like China, when the Chinese are cleaning up faster than us?

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The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear

Published 23 April 2009

Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t.

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Energising the debate about climate change

Published 20 February 2009

Energise! eschews the misanthropic green ideology of restraint and explains how human action can solve a human-made problem.

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We need cheap, abundant energy

Published 9 February 2009

Here’s how we get it: more R&D, and fewer red herrings. Co authored with Joe Kaplinsky.

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Race to be green saps creative energy

Published 28 March 2008

I had to laugh. Was this new and epic Cabinet split about whether the Home Office really can and should equip the police with personal organisers in time for the 2012 Olympics?

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Knocking the wind out of the energy debate

Published 12 December 2007

The UK government department in charge of energy is strangling urgently needed generation schemes in red tape, precaution and ceaseless consultation.

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Nuke the consultation – let’s have a debate!

Published 2 February 2007

Greenpeace and the courts have delayed New Labour’s energy white paper. That’s no victory – for you, me or the planet. Co-written with Joe Kaplinsky

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The EU’s post-industrial revolution

Published 11 January 2007

José Manuel Barroso’s new energy policy represents a retreat from development driven by fear.

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UK energy rules leave managers cold

Published 9 August 2006

In line with the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, UK regulations require a whole-building approach to calculate office carbon emissions.

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A self-defeating argument for nuclear power

Published 12 July 2006

The UK government’s energy review is more interested in changing the public’s behaviour than in putting a positive case for nuclear.

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Windmills of the mind

Published 3 July 2006

Why the UK government’s energy policy is more concerned with changing our behaviour and mindset than with actually supplying more energy.

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In defence of individual ecofreedom

Published 4 May 2006

Government campaigns against running domestic electrical gadgets on standby are unnecessary, and will likely prove unpopular.

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Blowing up Chernobyl

Published 27 April 2006

Twenty years on from the explosion, the anti-nuclear lobby is still playing fast and loose with the facts about casualties.

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Things to come – Tower power

Published 1 July 2003

Solar power demands direct sunlight, one of the reasons why the Government’s alternative energies are now directed at wind turbines.

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Things to come … Methane-powered mobiles

Published 1 April 2003

Recharging phone, laptop and PDA batteries is a pain, and the coming of power-hungry mobile broadband will make it worse.

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