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The Dangers of Nuclear Power
So, nuclear power is dangerous, right? Well, it certainly has risks. But if those Japanese power stations had been coal, gas, or pretty much anything else, they would be unlikely to have kept...
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Fossil Fuels are the Future!
This year’s most important energy insight The World is awash with fossil fuels The conventional wisdom, beloved of the Greens, is that fossil fuels are running out; that fossil fuel prices are going...
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Fracking: Safety concerns
I recently received a letter from a voter who was thinking of joining UKIP, but concerned about our position on shale gas. I thought my reply was worth sharing: Thank you for your letter, and I am...
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Doha: a last-gasp face-saver?
The UN Climate Conference in Doha was living up to expectations. No agreement. Indeed it’s a very strange conference. The European parliament decided, for the first time, not to send any official...
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Harvesting subsidies, not cereals
This is green vandalism at its worst. Peterborough Council is proposing to take 900 acres of prime agricultural land around Thorney, Cambs, for a solar and wind farm. In the process, they are giving...
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“A Horrendous Energy Crunch”
… and maybe, just maybe, a Get-Out-of-Jail Card Do they have any idea how to handle the energy crisis? A horrendous energy crunch. At least that’s how the Daily Mirror described it, and for once...
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The Myth of Green Energy
My old friend Struan Stevenson MEP (Con, Scotland) has been a leading campaigner against wind energy — and a thorn in the side of Alex Salmond, whose SNP government imagines it can power Scotland on...
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We can’t ignore shale gas
The Washington Post reports that major European companies are queuing up to move production (and jobs and investment) to the USA, to take advantage of low energy prices, especially low gas prices...
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Defending UKIP climate policy
The climate policy which I launched last October has been very well received — not least by energy-intensive industries. http://ukip.org/media/policies/energy.pdf But we still get a handful of...
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Lib-Dem MEP Rebecca Taylor: A rebuttal
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of joining a panel at the Durham University Union for a Question-Time-style debate. On the panel was Rebecca Taylor, whom I now know to be a Lib-Dem MEP...
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Britain wins the lottery
The recent report from the British Geological Survey at Keyworth in Nottinghamshire on the extent of shale gas potential in the UK [link] suggests that the Bowland Shale formation in the Northwest...
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What did the Party Conferences say about energy?
So the Party Conference season is over. The politicians and the lobbyists (and the few die-hard party members) have gone home. A great number of promises have been made. Call me a cynic if you will,...
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A frack fan’s defense manual
The US shale gas boom made a heavy impact on the world as it made gas much more abundant and as a consequence of that prices fell. That brought shale gas into the spotlight of the media and thus onto...
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Electricity Prices on the Political Agenda
Both Australia and Germany have just held national elections, where conservatives have won in both cases. During those elections electricity prices surfaced as a hot topic, where the public opinion...
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Why Britain’s Farmers should back UKIP
In the course of my work in the East Midlands, I meet quite a lot of farmers, and I find that generally speaking they tend to support UKIP’s broad objectives. They, like the rest of us, think we’d be...
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Does energy independence matter?
Are there more Arab countries among the top ten oil producers or North American countries? This is a trick question, of course, to which there is no correct answer, since there are three of each: Saudi...
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Should we welcome synthetic meat?
The cultivation of crops and the domestication of animals were two of the breakthrough technologies for our species. They marked the move from hunter-gatherers to settled and nomadic communities. Other...
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We’re not cutting emissions .. we’re just exporting them
I’ve spent best part of ten years arguing against the theory of man-made climate change – and had great fun doing so. There are powerful arguments to say that mankind has little impact on climate –...
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Unbelievable folly: the ‘lose-lose’ EU climate policy
… I’d like to start by addressing two of the clichés — indeed the canards — that invariably come up in any debate about the EU and the environment. The first is: “We have to thank the EU for clean...
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Is Trump rejecting climate denial?
It has become depressingly ordinary for Republican politicians to enter a denial phase in any discussion of climate change. This both undermines any attempt to deal with this issue, but also to discuss...
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