“I know that everything I say sounds like utter fucking bullshit,”
a top Cuadrilla PR executive told me yesterday when I asked him about the risks fracking poses to the sleepy Sussex village of Balcombe.
Imagine a wind turbine so big that it would take Usain Bolt 19.32 seconds to run across the 200m diameter of its blades (before plunging tragically into the sea). This is what wind manufacturer Dong says will help bring the cost of offshore wind down to below that of new gas-fired power stations (the size of the blades, not Bolt’s premature demise).
The Northamptonshire constituency of Corby may seem a world away
from your home and energy bills, but make no mistake, the two are linked.
Our #energygate investigation has revealed the extreme lengths
some Tory politicians will go to push their anti-green agenda, including
manipulating the Corby by-election.
Posted by Lawrence Carter -
8 November 2011 at 2:50pm -
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Last night Panorama attempted to answer the question what is
fuelling rising energy bills, instead viewers were treated to a steady stream
of arguments against renewable energy that went more or less unchallenged.
