Energy Secretary embroiled in new Drax greenwashing row
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been accused by US activists of being complicit in the pollution of a town in Mississippi by handing billions in taxpayer cash to a UK power firm that they claim is harming the health of residents.
Drax Group operates a power plant in Selby, North Yorkshire, that generates electricity by burning wood pellets. Many of these are sourced from forests in the US and shipped to the UK.
Activists from Gloster in Mississippi, where Drax runs a wood pellet factory, say pollution from its plant has caused health issues for people nearby, including heart disease, cancer and respiratory problems.
The pollution claims may or may not be sound, but powering Drax with wood pellets shipped from the US is unambiguously insane.
For sceptics, the main positive stemming from the Drax debacle is that it so clearly is insane and the Net Zero loons can't admit it. It doesn't matter why they can't admit it, that doesn't make the Drax lunacy any less obvious to others.
Another positive for sceptics is that Weird Ed is now tangled up in the Drax mess. Couldn't happen to a more deserving chap.
Come on Ed - say something silly.
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Left wingers - in this case, the son of a prominent Marxist academic - start out with good intentions. They want to make a contribution to the world, preferably by way of verbal interventions, like good advice, policy, or management.
They rapidly discover that the world doesn't obey their rules, and that the complicated nature of reality means that there are all sorts of unintended consequences of their policies and suggestions.
At this point, most of them give up. This usually comes at a time when they have children and need to get a proper job. If they persist, though, they rapidly have to start compelling people, breaking heads, and ultimately shooting people dead.
Ed hasn't got it in him to go that far - repressing people who point out that the world is more complicated than a sixth-former realises. But he's got an older boss who probably would, which is worrying.
If only there was some sort of fuel we could dig up and burn in modern lower emission power stations.
Sam - yes, I'd feel more comfortable with Starmer gone, he gives a consistent impression that repression is his favoured approach to opposition. Not that there is a good alternative to him, but Starmer is sinister.
DJ - that would be good, maybe there are people who are able to locate deposits of it so we can dig some up and try the idea.
I did hear (can't remember where, sorry) that Drax will soon be a net consumer of energy, in that the energy consumed by felling the wood, processing it into pellets, shipping them across the Atlantic, and (the new part) doing CCS on the emissions will exceed that generated.
Barbarus - I haven't seen that calculation, but I'm not surprised, the whole project makes no sense at all and even the nutters seem to know it.
Milliband is a manic clown! He was useless as a labour leader, and I sometimes believe that Starmer 'gave' him the job to deflect the inadequacies of both a Labour government, and shoving a useless bloke 'in charge' of a failed ideal.
Long may he fail.
Scrobs - "Long may he fail."
One of the few things where Ed is likely to shine.
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