How would you feel if some dodgy geezer smelling of mung bean fart, green sanctimony, and greasy banknotes in a brown envelope came round to your house and told you that you’d have to get rid of your gas cooker because “climate change”?
Probably the first thing you’d do is tell him where to shove it: “I like my gas hob. It gives me better heat control than electric and it’s also more versatile. Plus, for your information Mister, I’ve yet to see any evidence that ‘climate change’ constitutes any kind of threat, nor that stopping me from using my gas cooker would make any difference either way.”
Then, once you’d discovered that his name was Lord Deben, you’d set the dog on him.
And quite right too. Dodgy Lord Deben, as we know, is – allegedly – as bent as a nine bob note. He is currently being investigated by the House of Lords sleaze watchdog over a £600,000 conflict of interest scandal. And according to Guido, this is but the tip of the iceberg.
The formal inquiry into Lord Deben continues over the £600,000 in payments his family-run ‘Sustainability Consultancy’ Sancroft International received from taxpayer-subsidised ‘Green’ corporations – in what appears to be a flagrant conflict of interests with his role as Climate Change Committee chair. Now, confidential documents seen by Guido appear to show that on the very same day as Deben was arguing in Parliament in favour of expensive renewable energy subsidies, his firm was meeting with cash-guzzling, wood-pellet-burning, biomass generator Drax Group in a secret meeting that resulted in a £15,500 payment for Sancroft. Not bad for a day’s work…
Remarkably, this growing scandal is getting very little coverage in the mainstream media, despite the fact that Deben, a Conservative peer, is a public figure of great influence.
The recommendations of his Climate Change Committee have a huge impact on government environmental and energy policy. So why isn’t he being brought to book?
The suggestion is that, as far as the Establishment is concerned Deben is – as someone put it to Guido – “on the side of the angels.”
In other words, he’s so completely on board with the government’s position on sustainability, energy and the environment that nobody wants to rock the boat.
Deben’s latest wheeze is that he wants to ban gas hobs in all new homes by 2025.
As he told the Telegraph:
Simply put, there is no way in which the UK can meet the legally-binding climate change targets that Parliament has determined unless we take the measures outlined in this report.”
Actually, that isn’t true.
A report produced for the government in 2016 by Lord Oxburgh (another green trougher and true believer: so he can’t be accused here of anti-environmentalist bias) showed that decarbonizing heat – as Deben is blithely proposing – will cause all manner of financial, technical and practical difficulties.
None of these difficulties, needless to say, are addressed in Deben’s plan.
Deben is the Deep State personified. On his recommendation, billions of taxpayer pounds are squandered, freedoms are curtailed, the economy damaged, crony-capitalists rewarded, avian fauna killed by bird-slicing bat-chomping eco-crucifixes…
Yet almost no one in the system – not the newspapers, not the politicians – is prepared to call him to account because they too are card-carrying members of the Green Blob.
But we members of the public aren’t – and we really deserve better from the people who claim to be acting as our “servants.”
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Just from what zoo did this monkey escape from and when will they come with the nets to take him back to his padded cell and straight jacket?
” Simply put, there is no way the UK can meet the legally binding climate change targets that Parliament has determined unless we take the measures outlined in this report”
Beware of Green politicians. The United Kingdom brought this on themselves.
Trudeau encouraged the anti-pipeline keep it in the ground anarchists. Canada prosperity is bleeding, debt is growing and the liberal press ignores it.
AO-C relishes the radical label. Her plans would bring incredible upheaval, resistance, poverty, unemployment, riots. She seems oblivious to this.
If Canada were to shut down literally everything that produces CO2 there would be barely a blip in the amount of carbon produced world wide!
what about the cost…currently electricity is 7x the cost of gas/kwhr and is far more reliable..we have a new kitchen with mostly electric devices but kept a 2burner gas hob to cover power cuts. Our 30kw central heating boiler would be totally unaffordable on electricity
The latest natural gas turbine – generator is 61% efficient. 39% of the btu value of natural gas is exhausted as waste heat. On top of that, electricity suffers line -losses before it gets to your meter. The further away you live from the generator, the greater the loss. One positive for these generators is they are compact and can be situated close to customers.
Using natural gas to cook your potatoes on the stove top is the most efficient .
At one time, before the global warming grifters hypnotized the masses, natural gas was marketed as ” Nature’s Wonder Fuel”.
My father never enhanced his home to use fossil fuels. In the winter his typical power bill would be $750 a month. After buying our current home I retained the ability to use electric but added a propane furnace and hot water heater. Our propane costs run around $2,100 year, a drastic difference. Currently we can not get our propane tank filled because there is still too much snow for the propane trucks. After the heat has been off all night, the electric takes much longer than the propane to warm up the house.
I would rather have a propane cook stove than our electric. We live where there are frequent power outages and propane works during power outages so long as we manage it so we always have propane.
People often comment on this web site that a warmer world would be a better world. When my wife flew into Sea Tac she had to stay with my daughter because it wasn’t possible get out with our all wheel drive Subaru with four new studded snow tires. It took my other daughter and me two days to shovel snow out of our long driveway so we could go get my wife. The storm was two weeks ago and there is still too much snow on the private roads for the propane trucks to fill our tank. We still have to use very expensive electric power for heating. Between that storm and the one before it I lost eight days of pay because we couldn’t get out. At this point a world where children do not know what snow is sounds a lot better to me.
Interesting story regarding propane. About 5 years ago, supply and demand drove the price sky high. Long range weather forecasters had predicted a mild winter. Therefore no one felt the need to forward contract their needs. China did, and they got a bargain. Midwest corn farmers harvested a wet crop and their dryers used a lot more propane than normal. Along came a winter that defied Global Warming. Instant energy poverty for those dependent on propane.
Be smart like David and don’t be a victim.