Courts undermine oil
26 August 2024
The Labour government is using a court decision in June to justify its opposition to oil and gas production, threatening Britain’s energy security and industry.
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Net zero and climate change
Net zero and climate change
Tuesday 3 September 2024 19:00
The rush to decarbonise should not be an opportunity for capitalist profit and making workers pay through lower living standards and the loss of industry.
How should Britain’s workers respond to the many complex facets of climate change and net zero?
Come and discuss. Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.
Nonsense in court ruling on climate
15 April 2024
A ruling by the ECHR finding Switzerland guilty of failing to reduce emission targets represents a big threat to national sovereignty. More claims are sure to follow.
Flooding – protection works
23 January 2024
Floods this winter again highlight the government’s failure to deliver better flood protection. The Fire Brigades Union continues to campaign for the resources they know can make a difference.
Net zero – wider discussion needed
25 September 2023
Rishi Sunak has postponed the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles and gas boilers. This is welcome but only a first step in challenging net zero orthodoxy.
“Net Zero” plans in disarray
16 February 2023
The government’s net zero strategy continues to falter. Last year the High Court said its failure to produce evidence for the policy was in breach of the law, it shows no sign of relasing the data.
Drax - more at stake than burning wood
Burning wood to generate electricity is no solution for Britain’s tenuous energy supply – and claims it is “carbon neutral” are flawed…
Counting the cost of ‘net zero carbon’
20 August 2022
None of the politicians – least of all those vying for the Conservative leadership – will talk about the daily damage caused by adherence to the mantra of net zero carbon by 2050.
Strike wave greets COP26 [updated]
Road closures and police cordons reminded people in Glasgow of the reality of hosting the city’s biggest ever gathering, the COP26 climate conference.
The real cost of the zero carbon lobby
Most of the breathless headlines are now penned not by scientists, but by self-styled climate activists, who believe that the problem with the world is people. They don’t want to talk about the real cost – or the possible solutions…