So much about the government’s policy of reaching net zero by 2050 doesn’t seem to make any sense – until you start looking at the billions and trillions of pounds involved in getting there…
The government is still failing to decide to save the Rough gas storage facility off the East coast.
27 October 2026
Something odd is happening with the national grid. Details are emerging about potential failures by the National Energy System Operator, the government owned body charged with keeping the power on.
27 October 2026
The government has reluctantly approved Jackdaw but still hesitates to commit to North Sea oil and gas. It is unable to reconcile energy security with its net zero aims.
Why is capitalism so keen on net zero?
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 7.30 pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The facts about climate change should not be in dispute. But what should the working class be doing about it?
And why is the capitalist class so wedded to the policy of achieving net zero, whatever the costs in soaring energy prices for households and industries?
Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
Measures to authorise new investment in North Sea oil and gas are becoming increasingly urgent…
When talking about energy policy, it’s worth looking in detail at Britain’s energy needs and supply – and what that means for industry and households…
23 June 2026
The result of the Aberdeen South by-election, with a decisive defeat for the SNP candidate, was a result of anger against the net zero policies of both the SNP and Labour. Workers are calling for a change.
23 June 2026
Britain’s industrial base is at risk. Manufacturers say that high energy costs are driving production abroad. Trade unions too have raised the issue. Promised government action hasn’t yet materialised.
31 May 2026
Protests in Glasgow followed news of the latest increase to the energy price cap. This will increase household bills from July. There were calls to fight profiteering and net zero policies.
15 May 2026
Government plans to nationalise British Steel and save Scunthorpe steel works were welcomed by unions and the industry. But they warned there’s more to do on high energy costs and ensuring major projects use steel made here.
7 May 2026
Fuel shortages look likely. Unlike the government, workers in the gas and oil industry want Britain to use our resources of gas and oil and to maintain refinery capacity.
Britain relies on oil and gas for around three-quarters of its energy – a level that has hardly changed in decades. We will be relying on oil and gas for the foreseeable future, as the Climate Change Committee says…
23 April 2026
Ed Miliband seems unable to appreciate the folly of his net zero policy. Whether mistaken or deliberate, the consequence for Britain is industrial suicide.
Energy secretary Ed Miliband has approved yet another massive solar farm, to be built on prime food-producing land.
27 March 2026
On 19 March the government announced its steel strategy, including import tariffs. But there are wider challenges to face to secure the vital industry, particularly the cost of energy.
Britain is being covered with vast data centres. Workers are going to face even bigger utility bills as a result. And a great deal of the power they consume is used keeping track of the population…
The Vantage data centre in Cardiff is set to be dwarfed by one to be built in Cambois, Northumberland, by QTS – owned by US private equity giant Blackstone.
The reality behind the uncontrolled drive for solar and wind energy is the destruction of productive farmland and damaging valuable moors
23 February 2026
The reality behind the uncontrolled drive for solar and wind energy is the destruction of productive farmland and damaging valuable moors. And consumer bills will rise to pay for this.
23 February 2026
Landlords could be forced to install either a heat pump or solar panels under Miliband’s Warm Homes Plan. Both professionals and unions have criticised the move as unrealistic.
23 February 2026
The government plans energy links with other countries linked to an big increase in offshore wind electricity generation. The claimed benefits may not materialise.
27 November 2025
The government’s overdue decision to build small modular nuclear reactors in Wales with British technology is a positive step. This creates an opportunity for skilled jobs and to begin the revival of the nuclear industry here.
The government persists in pursuit of arbitrary net zero goals, raising the price of energy and risking shortages. We are all suffering the consequence…
A Workers reader writes about a thorough challenge to net zero orthodoxy – from a surprising source…
31 October 2025
The Labour government, and energy minister Ed Miliband in particular, claimed that renewable energy would reduce electricity prices. Things are not turning out that way.
28 August 2025
Electricity prices are high and liable to further increase. The regulator isn’t tackling the government policy behind this.
28 August 2025
The GMB trade union has launched a campaign to save what is left of the British ceramics industry, hit hard by rising energy costs. But it is a vital sector supplying other industries.
Liquidators have taken over Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire, which is set to close.
