UKThe colossal costs to comeThe eminent economist Professor Gordon Hughes published a new estimate of the cost of the grid in 2030 (republished by Net Zero Watch here). Consumers will have to put up with an increase in their power bills of at least £900 per year. The government made feeble attempts to rebut Hughes’ findings, but ended up being rebutted and refuted. The report received widespread media coverage. David Rose did a deep dive on the contents at Unherd, and there were shorter pieces in the Express and at GB News. Conservative front-benchers noted the contents. Hughes had an op-ed in the Telegraph (£). Miliband must move onSome of the newspapers reported that Ed Miliband’s eco-antics have become too much even for his old friend Sir Keir Starmer. The Secretary of State is said to be facing the axe in an impending reshuffle. Brazen brothersGuido Fawkes blog noticed that Ed Miliband’s DESNZ had been dishing out large sums of money to a firm of which his brother is a non-executive director. Barwell’s threatsLord Barwell, a former adviser to Theresa May, appeared to threaten our friends at the Daily Sceptic with the full force of the law for opposing climate action. Nobody appears to have told him that retrospective laws are not really the done thing in the UK. BP in full retreatHaving last week announced a full-scale retreat from eco-projects, BP followed through by announcing the cancellation of a major hydrogen project in the North-East of England. GB Energy bustRumours that Ed Miliband’s GB Energy boondoggle would be defunded by the Treasury continued to swirl.
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