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Monbiot seem disillusioned with the pronuclear government he has been promoting
His magic pony turns out to be made of coal...
I don't know how much evidence it takes to convince people that nuclear and fossil fuels are part of an integrated system. Take this, the actions of the utilities in the US who are trying to build nuclear, and the policies Merkel was pursuing while she planned to extend the use of nuclear power, and you have a crystal clear picture of an established energy system highly resistant to change which includes both nuclear and coal.
The energy bill is misleading, manipulative and destructive
Ed Davey has manipulated quotes to support the bill and a clause has been inserted to allow any coal plant to be built
My conversation with Ed Davey began badly. Two weeks ago the Liberal Democrat secretary of state rang me to explain that his energy bill would be the best legislation drafted since the 10 commandments. It happened that earlier that day, Ed Davey's deputy, the Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry, whom it would be inaccurate to describe as petite, had delivered a statement to the House of Commons, after which he had tried to reverse into his seat. But he missed, and instead sat on the secretary of state. I told Davey that I hoped he had recovered, and that it seemed to me symbolic of the Lib Dems' role in the coalition.
To say that he took this in the wrong spirit is to state the case mildly. He insisted that it is "inaccurate and unwarranted to suggest that the Liberal Democrats are being sat on by the Conservatives". Ten minutes later, halfway through a long and riveting disquisition on "feed-in tariffs with contracts for difference", he suddenly and unexpectedly returned to the theme, hotly insisting that his role in government proved that the Liberal Democrats were not in any sense or any manner being sat on. That clears it up then.
Our relationship is about to deteriorate further, as I will use this article to accuse Davey of some of the lowest and most deceitful tactics in the politician's armoury.
On Tuesday, the Guardian published a letter from Davey, in which he claimed that I mistake his "short-term methods" (approving more gas and coal plants) for his "long-term goals" (stopping climate change). It's easy to mix them up, isn't it? Approving more gas and coal plants looks so much like stopping climate change that I'm sure he can understand my confusion.
But the question...
Ed Davey has manipulated quotes to support the bill and a clause has been inserted to allow any coal plant to be built
My conversation with Ed Davey began badly. Two weeks ago the Liberal Democrat secretary of state rang me to explain that his energy bill would be the best legislation drafted since the 10 commandments. It happened that earlier that day, Ed Davey's deputy, the Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry, whom it would be inaccurate to describe as petite, had delivered a statement to the House of Commons, after which he had tried to reverse into his seat. But he missed, and instead sat on the secretary of state. I told Davey that I hoped he had recovered, and that it seemed to me symbolic of the Lib Dems' role in the coalition.
To say that he took this in the wrong spirit is to state the case mildly. He insisted that it is "inaccurate and unwarranted to suggest that the Liberal Democrats are being sat on by the Conservatives". Ten minutes later, halfway through a long and riveting disquisition on "feed-in tariffs with contracts for difference", he suddenly and unexpectedly returned to the theme, hotly insisting that his role in government proved that the Liberal Democrats were not in any sense or any manner being sat on. That clears it up then.
Our relationship is about to deteriorate further, as I will use this article to accuse Davey of some of the lowest and most deceitful tactics in the politician's armoury.
On Tuesday, the Guardian published a letter from Davey, in which he claimed that I mistake his "short-term methods" (approving more gas and coal plants) for his "long-term goals" (stopping climate change). It's easy to mix them up, isn't it? Approving more gas and coal plants looks so much like stopping climate change that I'm sure he can understand my confusion.
But the question...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/may/31/energy-bill-destructive-daveys-claims
