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‘The newest windfarm in Aberdeenshire – a good omen for renewable energy?’
‘The newest windfarm in Aberdeenshire – a good omen for renewable energy?’Roger McMichael from the company ENGIE who are building the Cairnborrow windfarm in north west Aberdeenshire will be coming...
View ArticleAll green energy supporters should shun the Tories and join a Progressive...
The Green Party and Jonathon Porritt have been organising campaigns to unite people to form a 'Progressive Alliance' that would co-ordinate efforts to defeat the Conservatives. There is hardly an area...
View ArticleOfgem action against small generators threatens to destabilise capacity market
In pursuit of a complete failure to understand the problems with its own 'capacity market' Ofgem seems about to make things a whole lot worse by reducing capacity margins - by taking away the...
View ArticleSocial Science research boosted by right-wing Tory ex-Minister
Peter Lilley, the ex-Tory cabinet minister, gave an unexpected boost to social science research when he implied that social science research was needed to estimate the impact of an administrative...
View ArticleWhy I was right to predict that UKIP would become the largest party
Some time before the EU referendum I predicted that a 'leave' vote would make UKIP the largest party. Well, I am very sad to admit that I was absolutely right. It's just that the Conservative Party has...
View ArticleWhy Trump might not make much of a difference to action on climate change
The election of Donald Trump probably means that, one way or another, the USA will pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, but this may make less difference to how much carbon the world...
View ArticleWhy leaving the EU is a bit like building nuclear power stations
Britain's efforts to leave the EU are a bit like trying to build nuclear power stations, that is it takes a lot longer than you expect, you're not quite sure it will actually happen and it is very...
View ArticleHow Scotland could double the amount of low carbon electricity being...
A new report written by me has just been published by the Scottish Green Party on how spending on renewable energy rather than nuclear power will result in around twice as much low carbon electricity...
View ArticleWill US force the UK to water down GM food rules in a Trade Deal with the USA?
Newspapers are already carrying stories about how the UK may be forced to accept GM food from the USA under a trade deal. But how realistic is this? The answer, ultimately, is probably no, but the...
View ArticleNo we don't need any more nuclear power stations to power electric cars
Desperate to cover the latest catastrophic meltdown to hit the nuclear industry as Toshiba sinks under the weight of its failures to construct nuclear power plant through its Westinghouse subsidiary,...
View ArticleTens of billions of taxpayers money at risk as pressure mounts to spend...
Giant portions of public spending are now at risk of pouring down a nuclear power black hole as calls for the Government to make direct investments into new nuclear power plant intensify. Ultimately...
View ArticleWhy we need smart grid charges before smart meters
We desperately need green NGOs and campaigners to campaign for time-of-day-electricity charging. Then we will get real smart meters, not the sham ones that are being installed now. The so-called smart...
View ArticleGovernment admits gas is substituting for cheap renewables
In the latest Government forward energy projections the Government implicitly admits that reductions in contracts to be awarded for renewable energy are to be replaced by more generation from natural...
View ArticleSo why are China's carbon emissions stabilising and will this continue?
This question is answered by the newly published book: China’s Role inReducing Carbon Emissions - The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption andthe Deployment of Renewable Energy.Published by RoutledgeBy...
View ArticleWhy the left should focus on countering inequality rather than banging on...
The 'debate' we are currently having about globalisation, is at best distracting, at worst highly toxic to the cause of spreading peace, equality and green politics in today's world. To put it simply,...
View ArticleMore delays in EPRs signal more problems for Hinkley C
It's now the middle of 2017 and still, after 12 years of trying to build the French European Pressurised Reactor, there is still no model in operation. Even in China, which has, according to some of...
View ArticleLabour pledges massive target for renewable energy
It still may require a slight touch on Douglas Adams' improbability drive to imagine that a Labour Government could emerge from this general election, but let us assume that it happens and we can talk...
View ArticleNow that Trump has pulled USA out of Paris can China take a lead in fighting...
Now that Donald Trump has pulled the USA out of the Paris Agreement more attention has been focused on China's role in reducing carbon emissions (the title of a book of mine that has just been...
View ArticleWhy Greens should stop beating themselves up over the lacklustre general...
I suppose it's inevitable that any party will engage in some soul searching and point-settling when it loses votes, but we should consider that in the context of a generally greater focus on the two...
View ArticleFrance to tilt EU energy market towards nuclear power
The French Government's announcement that it will legislate for a carbon floor price of 30 euros per MWh marks a dramatic turn in EU energy markets which will now be shifted to favour nuclear power...
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