WHAT do Peter Lilley, Andrew Tyrie, Philip Davies, Christopher Chope and I have in common?   We were the only MPs to vote against the 2008 Climate Change Bill, which is to say we had by then considered all the _…

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Every household has the occasional awkward family dinner, and Buckingham Palace may be in for one as the Prince of Wales and his father enter the fray from opposite sides in the national debate on environmentalism. Prince Charles voiced his _…

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Paper presented at the conference Climate Change: Evaluating Appropriate Responses. Brussels, European Parliament, 18 April 2007 Two weeks ago, climate experts and government officials from 130 countries released the latest IPCC Summary for Policy Makers on the ‘Impacts, Adaptation and _…

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Local communities have no chance of fighting “unwanted” on-shore wind farms” under the Government’s planning reforms, a group of academics, politicians and celebrities warns today. An alliance of prominent public figures, including Dr David Bellamy, the environmentalist, and Sian Lloyd, _…

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Countryfile presenter Matt Baker has waded into the debate over wind farms by questioning their effectiveness. The 2011 Farmers Weekly Awards host, 34, was asked to name the greatest threat to the countryside and he criticised the increasing number of _…

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Green campaign to ban Lord Lawson from the BBC Lord Lawson had barely removed his microphone when the vitriolic attacks began. The veteran politician had just taken part in a calm debate about the merits of extracting gas from shale. _…

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BOOK REVIEW John Etherington The Wind Farm Scam. An Ecologist’s Evaluation. Stacey International, London, 2009. 198 pp. £17.95 ISBN: 978 1905299 83 6 The mountains of Powys and Cardiganshire carry what from a distance look like a Golgotha of gibbets. _…

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THE Scottish Borders could be ruined by a “21st-century Hadrian’s Wall” of wind turbines, campaigners have warned, after moves were made to overcome military objections to large-scale developments. Energy companies are understood to have struck a series of behind-the-scenes deals _…

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Britain seems to have become a remarkably intolerant place, a place where healthy debate seems to be stifled rather than encouraged.   At London’s Royal Court Theatre last week, a new play opened to rave reviews. It’s about an environmental _…

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