Category Archives: Policy
Committee slams Treasury meddling
Monday’s report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Energy Bill didn’t pull it’s punches. There have been hundreds of lines written about the report over the last 24 hours, but here are key points, reactions and other coverage…
Will Osborne destroy the UK’s energy policy in his quest for power?
Monday’s report by the Energy and Climate Change Committee was just about as damning as it could be. However, most fascinating is the picture it paints of the ongoing conflict between DECC and the Treasury. With a marvelous sense of … Continue reading
What is the opposite of green? Ask the Government…
I’m getting board writing how this Government, which came to power with ‘Call Me Dave’ and his hug a husky philosphy promising to be ‘The Greenest Government Ever’ has infact done nothing of the sort, even making environmentalists look back … Continue reading
EMR: Energy Muddle Resurrected
While the Enagri blog was on its hiatus and I was away (figuratively, not literally, although I did go to Spain for 4 days for work), both the House of Commons and various Committees have been discussing the possible implications … Continue reading
Doing the Rio+20 Samba
So, here we are again… Another global summit designed to end global warming, deforestation, land rights abuses, women’s subjugation, fossil fuel subsidies and anything else the environmentalists and politicians feel like throwing into the mix… And that’s the problem with … Continue reading
