This is what this move does for the wind industry! Like fish left wallowing in a pool as the waters recede, the end of the renewable obligation effectively eliminates the funding stream that created the industry that funds global warming alarmism throughout the world. And as that global warming alarmism dies – so in a vicious cycle, the propaganda machine creating that alarmism is strangled, so it receives less funding by then means less alarm. So this is the death knell for these scamsters.
The English government in Westminster, is reported in the Telegraph as planning to scrap the hated “Renewable Obligation” as early as this week. This will leave the Scottish government (who were given the power to increase consumer bills through devolution) out on a limb as it continues to push for ever higher consumer bills to pay for its anti-fossil fuel policies (to sate the Greens) whilst it hypocritically & irrationally pushes for “Scottish Oil” on the hand.
This won’t immediately cut the hundreds of pounds households are paying for this policy in terms of direct costs on electricity bills, indirect costs as suppliers increase bills to as a result of their higher prices & lost jobs an economic prosperity as companies move outside EU, but it will stop most of the steep rise in bills predicted as a result of this insane policy.
No details are available on the future pricing (outside Scotland) of the “Renewable Obligation Tax” for those developments already in place. But hopefully, this marks a general downward move on electricity prices which undoubtedly will make many wind scams unviable, particularly toward end of life – so we can all look forward to rusting wind scrapyards all the sooner!).
Subsidies that have fuelled the spread of onshore wind farms are to be dramatically curtailed, under Government plans to be unveiled within days.
The Telegraph has learnt that a generous subsidy scheme will be shut down earlier than expected, effectively preventing thousands of turbines from getting built, under plans being considered by Amber Rudd, the new energy secretary.
The proposals, which could be announced as soon as this week, will set out for the first time how the Conservatives will implement their manifesto pledge to end any new public subsidy for onshore wind farms – amid concerns that turbines are unpopular with local communities.
This only affects onshore wind. Although they’re talking about changing the way they respond to RO, I don’t see that they’re ditching it. I think they WILL ditch it but only when it becomes bleeding obvious they’re going to miss the targets. The EU may even lead the way.
Future Offshore is now catered for by CfD payments
That was my impression.
However, let’s be honest – the Tory government are putting a finger in the air to gauge the extent of public opinion and see how far they can go with this. And it’s pretty clear looking online that they can go a lot further and faster than they imagine. So, I’d be very surprised if we don’t see more happening.
Scottish-Sceptic, I’ve just found this blog [and your website scef]
… this is a bit off subject… but I’d like to know what you think is the motivation for these EU people behind all this. Do you think they actually believe that climate change is caused by human produced carbon? After all, they’re hurting their own industries by making things more expensive.
It seems the UK is pulling back a little. But the US is still going strong [listen to Silly Hiliary and Barking Obama….].
Do you think the push for global taxation on industry [and human breath, no doubt] is to replenish any monetary losses at this stage?
I’m glad about the rise in skepticism, but I fear there might be some pretty powerful PR coming up…. I understand there’s an important summit towards the end of the year – to ratify the whole tax thing.
Whatever weather distortion technology there’s available would, no doubt, be used to show every skeptic they were wrong. Global weather related shocks – floods, heat waves, bush fires, droughts … many people dying. Heaven forbid.
Any thoughts? Surely they don’t actually believe what they’re telling us!
thanks
John
Belief in global warming alarmism is highest amongst the public sector and lowest amongst private sector engineers. In other words, those with most common sense are sceptics and those with least are alarmists.
And the EU is the civil service of the European civil service. It is the distillation of every civil service in Europe – removing all common sense and ending up with the pure essence of the public sector.
Thanks for your reply, SS.
So, it’s ignorance based on idealism, at the expense of the tax payers. I hadn’t really considered top civil servants could be so narrow. After all, it wouldn’t be a collective attitude in the public sector, as much as a decision taken by the top [non elected] EU [and Washington] body.
I wonder who would benefit from the inevitable global tax on carbon.
Governments around the world are feeling the pinch and are hunting down money internationally. As Martin Armstrong has said: “Taxation keeps rising lowering the general standard of living which does not benefit the people, but only the growing army of government workers which are public servants who do not contribute to the creation of a nation’s wealth.”
I don’t want to use up all your space here [!] but one more thing, while I’m quoting Armstrong.
This I like:
“Duke University has parted from the other universities who benefit from collecting money to further global warming theories. Duke has done what I have argued, they conducted a study based on 1,000 years of temperature records. They analyzed the whole thing and compared it to the most severe emissions scenarios by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). What they discovered is simply that global warming has not happened as fast as expected. The research claims that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. Hence, this is not a man-made trend.
Unfortunately, everything we have input into our computer warned that we were turning back down toward colder weather – not warming. On this score, Duke University seems to be far more objective than those seeking to create propaganda for global warming that the government can use as the excuse to raise taxes.”
http://armstrongeconomics.com/?s=global+warming&submit=Search