Also by Lawrence Carter

Balcombe or bullshit?

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 24 May 2013 at 1:54pm - Comments
by. Credit: Lawrence Carter

“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.

Article tagged as: Balcombe, climate change, Cuardilla, fracking, gas

Offshore wind cheaper than gas by end of decade

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 March 2013 at 3:35pm - Comments
Offshore Wind Farm Baltic One
All rights reserved. Credit: Paul Langrock / Zenit / Greenpeace

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).

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, energy bill, nuclear, renewable energy, wind power

New report shows how Big Six energy utilities are spending your money

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 22 April 2012 at 5:53pm - Comments
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Across the UK millions of families and businesses are feeling the economic squeeze.

As anybody who has recently received their bill for last winter will be painfully aware, soaring costs of energy are a huge reason for this.

Shocking new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance for Greenpeace, shows that most of the Big Six energy utilities haven’t been investing money from customer bills in a way that brings energy prices under control and secures a clean energy supply for the UK.

Article tagged as: big six, british gas, centrica, e.on, EDF, energy, energy bill, energy bills, gas, scottish power, sse

Panorama provides a narrow view of rising fuel bills

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 November 2011 at 2:50pm - Comments

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.

Article tagged as: energy, fuel bills, gas, renewable energy, wind energy

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