Would a windfall tax on energy companies help with fuel poverty? – GB News

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I absolutely do support a windfall tax on energy companies. The thing to remember is that these are unearned profits, this wasn’t energy companies investing, putting hard work in, lots of skills, or lots of risk taking in order to make these profits. Things happened in the world, and energy […]

BYLINE FESTIVAL PANEL: WHAT NEXT AFTER COP?

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BYLINE FESTIVAL PANEL: WHAT NEXT AFTER COP? WITH TOM BURKE, GABRIELLE WALKER, THOMAS PERRETT AND MARK STEVENSON, CHAIRED BY MALINI MEHRA Saturday, April 30, 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Byline Festival: Media Circus Acklam Village London W10 United Kingdom I am speaking at the Byline Festival this weekend. “What […]

Does the new government energy strategy tackle the immediate energy crisis?

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This is the third document in six months that the government has produced, and all that has happened is that they have become less coherent, and less and less connected to what actually matters to most people. What the Prime Minister seems to believe is that we want expensive nuclear […]

The government can do something right now to reduce peoples energy bills – LBC

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Why would the government build nuclear power stations which will mean that they have to put people’s energy bills up twice in order to get the investment needed to build them and pay for the energy they produce, why would you do that? Why would the government think it is […]

Taking ourselves out of global energy markets is the right thing to do – GB News

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It is true that there was very little wind last week. But what is interesting is that the lights stayed on, electricity still worked, factories kept running, homes were still heated. So, it didn’t matter all that much that the wind didn’t blow, because we have a very sophisticated grid […]

Can we get gas out of electricity generation in the next 5 years? – Sky News

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Russia’s threat might make a difference to supply. There is a poker game going on here. Putin needs people to buy Rubles to prop up the value of the Ruble in Russia, and other countries need Russian gas, So, it is question of who can look the other in the […]

Is scrapping VAT on energy efficiency measures good enough? – Talk Radio

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The chancellor’s announcement that VAT will be scrapped on energy efficiency measures for homes is the right idea, it is just ten years too late to make a real difference. Before David Cameron decided to cut the ‘green crap’ we were insulating around two and a half million houses per […]

COP26: All you need to know – Highgrade Media

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At COP26 I think we did better than I’d expected and nothing like good enough, is my general feeling. I think the tone was interesting, rather than the specifics of the outcome – which everybody’s commentaries focused on – the tone was interesting, because it was a much greater sense […]

Beyond COP26. The EU and the UK join forces to reach net zero – EEAS

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COP26 certainly wasn’t a flop. It didn’t take us to where we need to get to, but it did take us a step forward into the really hard work of delivering on the Paris Agreement. So, I think that it took us somewhere. I think what surprised people was the […]

Tom Burke – E3G – Climate change is impacting our lives right now – Talk Radio

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COP26 has certainly achieved something, it’s just not achieved enough. I think we are continuing to turn the corner we started turning in Paris. We are moving from a policy where we are trying to constrain things, to one in which were increasingly trying to take the opportunities of solving […]