The Government loses again ...

[Dave2002]

Not Brexit this time - but fracking related.

https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1578080/government-loses-nppf-fracking-high-court-case-unlawful-consultation?bulletin=planning-daily&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20190306&utm_content=Planning%20Resource%20Daily%20(133)::www_planningresource_co_uk_art&email_hash=

Maybe they'll try to overturn this, but what part of burning fossil fuels however obtained is bad, don't they understand?

We all do it, but we should be trying not to.

[eighthobstruction]

....yes brilliant at the moment....saw this last night....somehow I didn't hear this until about 1815....so it seemed to have beenSNEEKED out last thing....I'm just going to remind PM programme to make this more prominent....

[Serial_Apologist]

Not Brexit this time - but fracking related.

https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1578080/government-loses-nppf-fracking-high-court-case-unlawful-consultation?bulletin=planning-daily&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20190306&utm_content=Planning%20Resource%20Daily%20(133)::www_planningresource_co_uk_art&email_hash=

Maybe they'll try to overturn this, but what part of burning fossil fuels however obtained is bad, don't they understand?

We all do it, but we should be trying not to.

A third of our energy needs to be provided by renewables, a third by gas with carbon capture and burial, and a third by nuclear power, were said to be the government's objectives, we heard this lunchtime from someone brought onto the BBC news as an expert - the problem consisting in the third option being currently limited in prospect to one replacement nuclear power station, still in question from the pov of achievability and practicability.

[french frank]

Meanwhile, back in 2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/24/the-9-green-policies-killed-off-by-tory-government

[Serial_Apologist]

Meanwhile, back in 2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ory-government

Thanks for finding that article, ff - timely (the only "new news" since its issue is the threat that has been discovered to Insect World, always thought to be the one lifeline likely to outlive all other Earth species) - and some great (with just a few not great) contributions to the comments discussion below.

Of course without capitalism we wouldn't have acquired the knowledge of what it has put at stake. This is one of the ironies of the present situation capitalism as a system has never been more discredited among thinking people other than those who think themselves able to escape not just the worst of its social and environmental consequences but the future they're handing on.

There's so much to be said. Suffice for now to say that the solutions capable of saving both present and future are there in the different knowledge disciplines scattered over the globe but it will take a big hit on some fondly held beliefs, practices and possessions many view as sacrosanct, and not only those holding them but a whole burgeoning industry of not causing offense.

[french frank]

Thanks for finding that article, ff

I knew just where to find it - bitter memories: The Green Investment Bank was set up by Vince Cable and was in the 2010 LD manifesto, and Tory attempts to clobber on-shore wind farms were then blocked; plus many coalition green policies were later reversed. For some reason

[jayne lee wilson]

I've been campaigning against fracking and open-cast mining very recently with 38 Degrees, so this is excellent news.... keep fighting!

[ardcarp]

Is this something the government keeps quite about? A large proportion of our power is still generated from burning coal. As we no longer mine it ourselves, a VAST amount is shipped into the UK via Immingham..which handles 10 million tons of the stuff every year. Question: Is it worse to burn coal we have mined in Britain or to burn coal imported via huge bulk carriers (ships) from halfway across the world?

http://www.abports.co.uk/Our_Locations/Humber/Immingham/More_about_Immingham/