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Onshore wind leads to obvious arguments about protection of the rural landscape. In some places it is fine - from the hill near my house I can see the Cotton Farm windfarm, built on the site of an old WWII airfield. Although it was protested against locally, it isn't exactly 'special' land - essentially a brownfield site.
I do ave big issues with turbines in upland areas, where massive haul roads have to be dug into hillsides to create tracks through which the turbines can be got to the top. This, and the necessary network of tracks on the top, can never be made good again.
The only reason for this can really be the effective power of NIMBYs.
However I think that on Brexit, everything they've done this week is what the Tories wanted them to.
(An acquaintance of mine lives in Soham. When he had his house built, his architect told him that his house was the highest ground in a certain direction from SIberia. The wind certainly felt like it at times.)
To make it clear: I have no problem with the majority of windfarms. I do have problems with some areas having more than others due to NIMBYs, or relatively spoilt upland areas being spoilt for posterity by them as they're easier to build on due to the lack of NIMBYs. For most places in England, the latter clause does not apply.
In this case, while an expansion of solar is obviously desirable I can't see that in our circumstances wind power is better than hydro or tide.
Except recently they may have made progress with tidal:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-45246445
The point of this is that the Labour party is hardly proposing anything new here. This is the current direction of energy policy and it has been for some years. Not going ahead with the Cardiff lagoon does seem an unpopular decision but I am not seeing an obvious vulnerability here. Personally I would be looking to reduce our reliance on the interconnectors, particularly with France. Encouraging economically viable clean energy production inside the UK seems to me a very simple way of reducing the trade deficit.
Vote Blue go Green. It’s now Vote Red go Green.
Corbyn soon be bothering huskies
Just read the third paragraph of this report, Do the BBC REALLY think that people are that THICK ?
Energy policy has been horrendous for as long as I can remember. I'm unconvinced Corbyn's policy of burning capitalists* will work well.
*I'm joking, of course.
Attention then shifts to the Tories. Can May top last years speech from hell!?
The Tories have been going very heavy on a Green Brexit recently, plastic waste etc, and have made good progress with renewables since 2010.
Agree about Hinckley Point.
Fat capitalists are likely to have higher than average negative calorific values. Perhaps the Matrix showed the way to go?
Never heard of Hinksey point.. Is it a new power station>?
And after Bodyguard they aren't going to allow some random guy to wander on stage to hand her a note..
The big snag of course is that comparatively few properties are suitable for it, whereas any house with a south facing roof can take solar.
(And since most churches have such roofs, it's really dumb that only a tiny minority can put them on.)
eg This:
"Polling from YouGov only last month suggested that the public is supportive. It found that 62% said they would like to fit solar panels and 60% would install an energy storage device. An even greater number – 71% – said that they would be interested in joining a community energy scheme if government support was there."
The actual question was not published afaics, but the conclusion is:
"A majority of consumers would like to install both solar panels and a home energy storage
device for their homes, if greater assistance was available"
ie Yes, I would like to have the benefit if somebody else pays. Not very convincing, especially as solar is now so cheap and subsidies should be used where they have a maximum impact.
https://www.documents.clientearth.org/wp-content/uploads/library/2018-08-20-clientearths-climate-snapshot-coll-en.pdf
So: asking people to put money in infrastructure and the same time they are nationalising utilities without compensation.
Hmmh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45641574
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sheffield-school-fight_uk_5baa6e9ce4b0f143d10dfe10
Have we really learned nothing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw687TVnO3g
I think Labour have really shown themselves in an unflattering light. However, by promising the planet for nothing, a la Trump, there is a danger they will fool enough people to take power and cause massive disruption.
Because they seem to have firmed up all four...
eg Pension funds own something like 3-5% of the UK stockmarket, worth £50-£150 bn. The loss of 10% of that stake whether by dilution or simple confiscation would be 5-15bn, I think. Which sounds very Brown-ish. Up to date seen hard to come by, but it is not really my area.
It's Mays fooked up BREXIT then.
Not exactly the Toxteth riots is it.
Although stasis in a time of change may not be what we need
Although stasis in a time of change may not be what we need
I had solar panels installed in 2011, and I've done very well out of them. It was a no-brainer. It completely defrays the cost of the green tax imposed by Ed at al to pay for his generous give-away.
Of course, people would want the chance to benefit. In my case, the finance came from my retirement lump sum, but if I hadn't had any finance, I'd have been spitting mad about it.
Seems like Nike's gamble paid off.
Not a sentiment everyone would agree with but very professionally done
"Don't ask if your dreams are crazy. Ask if they're crazy enough."
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-domaindev-st_emea&hsimp=yhs-st_emea&hspart=domaindev&p=new+nike+commercial#id=3&vid=f4685ae14fa0edcfb62c1a10f8ca54ce&action=click
Tory policy announcement alert
We don't need no edukayshun (for the irks)
If some of the glamour and pizzazz rubs off the Tories through the attrition of govt. That 40% will see them into number ten.
Those that haven’t watched it, should.
It is excellent.
Younger families have wholesale seemed to stop supporting the conservatives.
They need a platform to attract them. Rent reform, mortgage reform (the stress tests put on mortgage applications means that people not on the ladder are getting refused mortgages or have to find very high deposits, when they are prefectly fine paying much higher rents.
I’m sure local people are delighted that all the Roma will be eligible to stay in the U.K. permanently under May’s Brexit plans, deal or no deal.
Free trade is good, tariffs are bad. But why are the four freedoms inextricably linked? A common market can be achieved without committing to a unified state. Why then are we not arguing about the reason for the political add-ons?
PS The answer isn't that we all agreed them in 1957 or whenever.
I am tempted to make it over to Brum on Sunday to help welcome the Tory delegates. There were some embryonic plans for a pub meet up, Anything definite?
Any bets on the speech? How many times will he say the word Palestine? How much time saying how saintly he is in fighting racism for all these years vs how much of it will be about how evil the Tory government is (I recall the Tory manifesto didn't mention Corbyn by name much if at all so it might be there's a rule you don't mention the alternative group too much in big moments). How many standing ovations will there be?
All in all conference seems to have gone ok for him.
A friend who used to teach in Sheffield said the school is predominantly Roma, and unusual with that. There are certain communities you can take the piss out of and they don’t fight back. Rape 1,500 white girls and the police and social services will awkwardly look around and pretend it hasn’t happened. But try taking on a community that’s used to fighting its own battles....
On the flip to that it was the same in NI when they started getting pick pocket Romas coming en masse. They don’t stand for that kind of thing there, both the Protestants and catholic communities will not accept criminality from outside their own group. Retribution was quick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Scotland
The poll is arguably meaningless (like many polls of course) if people aren't given some idea of the relative costs, risks etc in advance.
Which is a disturbing insight into your mental state, like your rather nasty refusal to attend the funeral of someone on account of them being a Leave voter.
A great platform for the leaders speech. Who'd have thought....
I think a Corbyn government that fudged on Brexit would be better for the Tories longer term than a Tory government that ends up having to deliver a No Deal Brexit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45407617
Finish it off with a passionate speech playing to the masses and it's a good week for labour.
I suspect that a Starmer led Brexit negotiation would be more successful than May's rigid "Chequers or nothing" negotiating stance. A particularly bizzare stance considering she cannot get her own party to agree it, yet alone the EU27.
The problem with Brexit is that all along it has been an internal Tory obsession with too many red lines. A Starmer approach would be much more positive about immigration, jurisdiction of European courts etc, a generally more positive approach. It may well be the only viable Brexit.
Labour's pitch is vote Labour and "rich" people who are lazy and greedy and have done nothing to warrant their wealth will give you their money for which you will not have to do anything for. What a lovely world
Coming to an election poster near you soon.