UKMiliband to miss clean power target by three yearsDespite all the pain for British billpayers, a new report warns Miliband is set to miss his 2030 clean power target by three years. There’s not a hope in hell Miliband meets his target for 2030, or by 2033 for that matter. NZW: UK’s renewables fleet will need to be shut downWriting for the Net Zero Watch blog, Andrew Montford, the Director, argues that if the UK ever wants to get back to cheap electricity then future policymakers will need to close down the renewables fleet. He says this will mean confronting economic, legal, diplomatic, political and constitutional hurdles. Ratcliffe slams UK’s “idiotic” carbon taxesBillionaire businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe has slammed Net Zero carbon levies as “the most idiotic tax in the world”. The Manchester United co-owner, who is boss of chemicals firm INEOS, called on the government to scrap the taxes as it harms investment and demanded drilling in the “abundant reserves” of the North Sea oil and gas fields in the face of the government’s push for green energy. Tories unveil new ICE and defence investment policies through green cutsKemi Badenoch has said the Tories will ditch the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars if the party wins the next election. Elsewhere, the party said Net zero projects and “nonsense” research grants would be scrapped under Tory plans to set up a £50bn “sovereign defence fund”. Coutinho: voters were sold a lie on Net ZeroClaire Coutinho has conceded the Conservative Party previously made errors on Net Zero saying they “should never have signed up to something without knowing the price tag”. She says voters had been “promised if we built all these wind farms… we would get cheap energy. And it’s just not true”.
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