Scottish Sceptic

Chris Huhne is back on the bandwagon proclaiming Scotland’s renewable “industry” as “mission critical” to England achieving its global warming targets. Too true.
Of course Scotland is mission critical because scamming the Scots has been a key part of this policy from the beginning; the way Scottish politicians have allowed Scotland to be yet again fleeced on energy policy makes my blood boil. (hence the nationalist rant … even though I’m a unionist, but sometimes nationalists do have a point)
Even before all this nonsense over global warming started, Scotland was already producing something like 8% of our energy from “clean green” hydro (or as others would see it: “another blot on the landscape”). So, when the UK government committed to a  policy of 1% increase in renewables each year from 2000, Scotland should have been able to sit back for eight years watching the English struggle to achieve their own targets, and even have benefitted from all those ugly eyesores that dot the Scottish landscape: we could have “sold” the benefit of hydro to allow England to meet its self-imposed target and raked in millions and millions for Scottish public services even allowing those greens to bask in the glory of doing more than our fair share to salve the conscience of the world.
EEeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (scratching sound of record being hastily changed) Continue reading →