Apr 01 2007
Labour has a huge carbon footprint, as well as an impatient clunking fist
We now learn that CO2 emissions have risen by 3% since Labour came to power.
All those extra motoring taxes, all that rhetoric to get people to take the train, all those air miles to attend climate change conferences, all those ministerial limo trips, all that attention to recycling, even the threat of a dustbin tax- and the emissions go up remorselessly.
??It’s no surprise. Labour is all hot air on this subject. They travel by??plane endlessly, they preside over gas guzzling public sector offices, they fail to make the necessary decisions on power generation. It’s do as I say, not as I do.
The last green policy the Uk had was electricity privatisation, which triggered the dash for gas. Without that, we would not be hitting our Kyoto targets.
Mr Milliband should stop posturing, and should start apologising.
New Labour has a huge carbon footprint, as well as an impatient clunking fist.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Because our nuclear power stations, which used to produce 20% of our power, are closing down it is inevitable that we will produce more power from CO2 producing sources (we can’t expand hydro because we don’t have suitable sites & windmills are an expensive useless token).
The real bad news is that the downside of not have enough generating capacity will be obvious when the lights go out, as they surely will. At which point politicians who spouted green nonsense & prevented the building of new nuclear will, deservedly, find themselves hanging from lampposts.
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Neil, It maybe sooner than you think, I recall last year one of them (I believe the energy minister but don’t quote me) saying that if demand for electricity exceeded generating capacity because of the cold winter, then we shouldn’t worry, industry would be shut down not houses ~ honestly it was like a character from the pages of ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Do you know of any independent reviews of the usefulness of windmill electricity generation?
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