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Lukewarmer, libertarian, author of The Hockey Stick Illusion. Director @netzerowatch . Personal views.
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With A new CEO appointed at the CCC is good to look again at just how disgraceful an organisation it is. I'm not sure another green blobber is the right choice to sort it out.
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The inescapable conclusion we should draw from today's news is that the country is in the hands of lunatics.
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Very good by
@JeremyClarkson
on the absurd effects of Net Zero on his farm. The big picture is that the costs of Net Zero far outweigh the benefits, but nobody wants to talk about that.
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The argument that global warming is a serious problem rests on the output of climate models, vast computer simulations of the atmosphere, the oceans and the biosphere. But are climate models good enough to inform policymakers? This thread argues they are not. Not even close. 🧵
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The accounts for Kincardine, the UK's second floating offshore windfarm are out, and we now know that it cost £398million to build, or £8m/MW. That's ten times the capital cost of a gas-turbine, but delivering only half as much power, and then intermittently.
Insanity.
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Cressida Dick has to be sacked.
We’re we supposed to be impressed by this? Once again, there are no grownups in the police.
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A thousand trees cut down for five wind turbines. Good news, eh
@Greenpeace
? Something to celebrate, wouldn't you say,
@friends_earth
?
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Wind output in the evening peak will be 0.5GW, or 1% of demand.
The government's plan is to double the amount of wind on the grid, so in a future lull, it will deliver 2% of demand.
Genius.
#CostOfNetZero
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Climate catastrophism really is a religion, and that's very dangerous indeed, as I explain at Daily Sceptic.
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National Grid has said it will need to spend £120 billion upgrading the transmission grid for Net Zero.
Its modelling suggests the distribution grid will be more than three times as much.
That's half a trillion pounds, nearly £20k per household, just for the wires.
Madness.
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Today, Grant Shapps is saying that everyone is going to need a heat pump by 2050. By coincidence, I've just written a paper on the subject. It shows that Shapps is utterly wrong. Heat pumps are a mistake for most people. 🧵
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In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward, a programme to radically transform the Chinese Economy.
It was an economic disaster. By 1962, up to 50 million people may have died.
Net Zero is our Great Leap Forward.
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When I pointed this out to New Scientist's Rowan Hooper, he called me a "climate impacts denier" and blocked me. A strong religious conviction can do strange things to people.
Climate-related disasters killed ever fewer in 2021 — 98.7% less than a century ago
Despite breathless climate reporting none reported that
Richer and more resilient societies reduce disaster deaths
and swamp any potential climate signal
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In this thread, I will try to explain why electricity is going to get much *much* more expensive.
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Why, if wind power is cheap, do we have to subsidise it?
Why, if wind costs £44 per megawatt hour to produce, do we offer windfarms £100+?
These were the simple questions that
@DavidGHFrost
asked the minister, Lord Callanan.
Fair to say that he didn't answer the question.
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Under Net Zero, you will be forced to have a car that costs more and performs worse, heating that costs more and performs worse, you will be made to eat things you don't want to eat, and you will be prevented from going places you want to go.
Don't vote for Net Zero.
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Electricity storage thread
@afneil
is being bombarded with every misconception about the energy system out there, as people remonstrate against his simple factual observation that we need something to deliver power when the wind doesn't blow.
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Lockdowns cannot protect you from an endemic virus forever.
That is all.
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Stop telling them lies?
Climate nightmares: how to reassure a child who is anxious about the planet
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In a week where we have heard about the terrible human cost of the Government machine covering up the use of contaminated blood, it’s interesting to consider Whitehall doing exactly the same thing - hiding the painful truth - in another area. (Thread....)
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Global data suggests there is no climate crisis.
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Wholesale gas prices have fallen again. At these levels, a new gas-fired power station running flat out can deliver electricity at around half the cost of an onshore wind turbine and around a third of the cost of an offshore one.
#CostOfNetZero
#ItsAReligion
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Net zero fans like
@SKinnock
can hardly complain when those same policies close down major employers.
You wanted net zero.
You got net zero.
Jobs.
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Reminder. We are spending 2-3 times as much on trying to stop global warming as the harm it is alleged to cause might cost us. Irrational faith is everywhere taking precedence over rational analysis.
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There are two coal-fired power stations remaining on the GB grid. They are currently generating twice as much electricity as around 40 offshore windfarms and hundreds of onshore ones.
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In energy policy, the whole political establishment is operating in a fact-free void. They are completely divorced from engineering and economic reality. They are leading the country to disaster.
Great British Energy will deliver clean energy, cut bills and make people better off across the UK.
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Ten times the cost of a gas fired power station, but delivers half the output.
Madness.
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The news that Vattenfall are not going ahead with a huge windfarm in the North Sea shows that we were right all along.
The big parties are basing their energy policies on a fairy story of cheap wind.
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The speaker of the House of Commons has expressed an interest in extending lockdown restrictions to the field of climate change and decarbonisation. I hope this helps everyone understand just how mad these people are.
#climate
#netzero
#totalitarianism
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Attenborough's flights are necessary. Yours isn't.
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Sweden has no lockdown, no masks, no second wave. And we are talking about locking up over 50s. We are run by lunatics.
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European electricity prices are high, but UK prices are crazy. This shows just how much damage is being done by Mr Johnson's green obsession.
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The 7 scientists repeated experiments...in 8 previous studies on the effect of climate change on coral reef fish see if they were correct.
[They] found 100% replication failure. None of the findings of the original eight studies were found to be correct.
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For several weeks, I have been inviting renewables enthusiasts to point me to a windfarm that can generate power at lower cost than natural gas.
I've had not even a single solitary attempt.
Tells a story, doesn't it?
I think this needs retweeting far and wide.
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Claire Coutinho says that handing windfarms a 70% increase in prices will reduce consumer bills.
Away with the fairies.
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A lie, repeated frequently, is still a lie.
Exhausted polar bears cling to life on thawing ice as they face extinction
#MirrorClimateCrisis
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In need of a laugh, I listened to the first few minutes of Costing the Earth on the energy strategy.
Got to the bit where
@mark_lynas
said we need 500 GW of offshore wind.
That would cost over £2 *trillion*, or £80,000 per household.
Where are all the grownups?
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Floating offshore wind comes in at £220/MWh, or 22p/kWh. Allowing (optimistically) 8p/kWh for the cost of the grid and VAT, that gives, say 30p/kWh.
At that price, it would cost £260 to run a 100W lightbulb for a year.
This is insanity.
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Tens of thousands of green activists coming to Glasgow. No vaccine passports, no quarantine, no nothing.
Meanwhile, the local care home remains shut, and families prevented from seeing their loved ones, because somebody got a positive test back in August.
#evil
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I'm increasingly convinced that the government will do nothing about the energy crisis. They think energy poverty will bring about "behaviour change".
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Because of the unique way it is funded, the BBC can spend your TV tax on smearing an African farmer. Utterly disgusting people.
🚨 NEW 🚨
How did this Kenyan farmer become a champion of climate change denial? I have been looking for answers… 🧵
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Climate Plonker of the Week is Antonio Gutteres of the UN, whose burblings about a new "era of global boiling" have taken swivel-eyed incoherence to new levels of silliness.
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But because of
#NetZero
dogma, we will continue to turn cereal crops into fuels.
We are in the grip of a millenialist religion. You should be very worried.
#costofnetzero
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The Government has just leased lots of our seas for floating windfarms.
This is your reminder that floating offshore has a levelised cost of £224/MWh.
We are in an energy crisis, and they are *frantically* trying to make things much, much worse.
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Apparently 100 Conservative MPs have called for a ban on cars by 2030. It's increasingly clear that the Tories, like Labour, are in the hands of crazy people.
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Scunthorpe will surely close. Port Talbot gone already. Fertiliser plants gone too. North Sea operators looking elsewhere. Last aluminium smelter hanging on through subsidies. Car industry threatening exodus.
Poverty and decay. It's the future.
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Google has removed the Great Barrington Declaration from its results. It's still there on DuckDuckGo.
Why does anyone still use Google?
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Climate scientists have been telling lies about extreme weather for so long that most people have no idea that floods happened in the past.
This is such a catastrophe. Don’t ever fucking say there isn’t a
#ClimateEmergency
in my presence.
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So if Labour get into power, they are going to hand the energy portfolio to a madman.
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Can anyone doubt that climate catastrophism is a millenarian cult?
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Net Zero is going to destroy our civilisation.
At least 50 fertilizer production facilities have closed in Europe. This is stated in a report by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (a major financial group among the world's top ten).
Fertilizer production in the EU has become completely unprofitable due to gas prices. 75% of the
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Climate change is not a major public concern any longer.
It is a luxury belief, which we can no longer afford.
LibLabConGre are out of touch.
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1⃣ We are now sure, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the public were *deliberately* misled about the cost of Net Zero.
It's not just that, for example,
@PhilipHammondUK
said that successive governments had been *systematically dishonest* on the subject. 🧵🧵🧵🧵
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Apparently, by 2035 we will be spending £29bn per year on windfarms.
At the same time, we are expected to believe that bills are going to come down.
For how much longer do we have to put up with this blatant mendacity?
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Insanity.
UK shutdowns another nuclear reactor.
After 46 years generating electricity, EdF powered off this morning the second unit of its Hinkley Point B nuclear plant (the station released steam to mark the moment).
#energytwitter
#energycrisis
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You did this. The blame lies fairly and squarely with your Climate Change Act. You did this. You.
This is a deeply worrying time for workers at Liberty Steel. The Government must look at all the options on the table to protect these jobs and our steel industry. They must do whatever it takes.
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The sheer insanity of electrifying everything is hard to comprehend.
BREAKING: Rolling blackouts for Alberta tonught. The province is now feeling the full effect of Rachel Notley prematurely shutting down our coal plants. Wind and Solar at ZERO, while Natural Gas is barely keeping the lights on, literally.
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"Today, electric cars are simply expensive gadgets heavily subsidised for the wealthy to feel good while doing very little for the planet."
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Greenpeace are currently blockading BP's offices cos' climate emergency. By strange coincidence, Greenpeace buy diesel for the Rainbow Warrior III, 100,000 litres at a time, from BP.
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On Friday, the UK offshore wind fleet, all 14000MW of it, managed to produce...36MW.
Around a quarter of one percent.
#WindIsntWorking
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The fact that there is no official cost-benefit analysis of Net Zero shows that the project is more an article of faith for the climate catastrophe cult than a rational policy response.
Net Zero: "Can we have a debate... before trillions of pounds of taxpayers' money is wasted?"
@ABridgen
Britain's Net Zero policy has already been disastrous for the public
@Conservatives
@UKLabour
But it will get far worse unless we speak up now
#together
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We may have no industry left after this winter, but at least we'll have made the weather in 2100 a fraction of a degree cooler.
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According to the Wall St Journal, Siemens has withdrawn its profits guidance to markets, because of a growing problem of component failure on its wind turbines.
The government has bet the economy of the idea that wind is cheap and becoming more so. Everyone now knows its a lie.
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It is striking that both the Climate Change Committee and the Treasury have refused to perform a cost-benefit analysis of the Net Zero project.
Tells a story, doesn't it?
#CostOfNetZero
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Apparently, the cost of replacing the battery in a VW eGolf is $23,000.
EVs are toys for the rich.
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There should be a much bigger scandal over the dishonesty of successive energy ministers and their civil servants. We have been lied to consistently and deliberately over the costs of Net Zero.
“We reckon that if you scrap Net Zero, then the saving to the taxpayer, every year, for the next 25 years, would be in the order of £30 billion per year. What is that? That's about £600 per adult…. This is real money. It's your money, and they didn't tell you. They deliberately
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Dear
@RishiSunak
and
@trussliz
.
We have been subsidising renewables for 20 years. The development phase is over. Time for them to stand on their own two feet.
Do you agree?
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Electricity prices have increased in 17 of the 22 years since wind and solar farms started to be installed.
I met a new mum during the campaign who was almost in tears as she talked about the meals she had skipped over winter so she could afford to keep the heating on for her newborn.
I will never apologise for supporting a government that builds more solar farms, ends out reliance on
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The Conservative Environment Network have published a handy guide to Tory MPs who are in the green religion and must be voted out at all costs.
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As we head for eye-watering tax rises, it's useful to recall that we are spending tens of billions every year on net zero. We are not doing this not to change the climate, but to set an example to India and China. An example they ignore.
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The cost of balancing the grid in October was, at £492 million, the second most expensive month ever. Before renewables, we could do the whole year for that amount.
We are heading for £175 per household for the year. Just what hard-up families need!
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We have been subsidising windfarms for nearly 20 years. There is no sign of them becoming economically viable.
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Wind power is currently generating around 1 GW in the UK and around 1 GW in France.
Renewables are rubbish.
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This is spectacularly wrong. "The end of the Younger Dryas, about 11,500 years ago, was particularly abrupt. In Greenland, temperatures rose 10°C (18°F) in a decade (Alley 2000)."
@BillyJRacing
Earth's climate has been ever-changing for billions of years -- but over timescales of tens of thousands of years. To change it fast (this past century) requires Humans.
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Message to all the MPs thinking to stand for Conservative leader.
If you're not prepared to dump Net Zero, don't bother.
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No wind again today. Day-ahead electricity prices for the evening peak are hitting £1200/MWh, perhaps 25 times where they would be if the country wasn't run by insane people.
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There's a putrescent odour coming from the Climate Change Committee.
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The number of people dying of respiratory illness in Sep-Oct is LOWER than same period for the last 5 years.
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The renewables revolution has been cancelled.
Investors see it.
Reform UK sees it.
The establishment parties and the mainstream media don't. They are still living in their green fantasy world.
(Link below)
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Gas prices have fallen again. At current prices, a new gas-fired power station, running flat out, delivers power far more cheaply than an offshore windfarm.
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The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero seems to have
- 2 permanent secretaries
- 5 directors general
- 38 directors
- 166 deputy directors
Can this be real?
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The media love a good nutcase.
.
@ExtinctionR
’s
@gailbradbrook
: Stopping climate change enables us to also solve “systemic racism, white supremacy, and the wounds of patriarchy.”
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Mad as a hatter.
Ed Miliband explains what Great British Energy will do for you in 30 seconds 👇
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Labour pledges to reinstate 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars. Absolute nutters.
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There are 4 ways to bring down energy prices in the short term.
- more gas supply
- more efficient use of gas
- less renewables
- lower subsidies to renewables
The government has chosen "none of the above".
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We have been subsidising windfarms for 20 years, allegedly because they will then become cheap.
In reality, it's just a way to fleece the public.
Permanent ecogrift, overseen by
@grantshapps
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This is untrue. Electricity is four times the price of gas. Heat pumps cost more to run for most people.
Why do we need to move to heat pumps?
Because its the only way back the ultra low heating bills we enjoyed 3-4 yrs ago
Gas will never get us there
Heat pumps cut how much energy we use to heat the home by 65-75% & electricity prices will fall as we shift to renewables/nuclear
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There is essentially no wind anywhere in Europe at the moment.
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Here is a picture of Mr Bendell in Bali. I guess he is not one of those "ordinary British people trying to live greener lives".
The planned expansion of
#LondonCityAirport
gives the middle finger to ordinary British people trying to live greener lives. Is it fair for millions to change behaviour when millionaires using City airport may soon be taking twice as many flights?
@GreenRupertRead
@XRebellionUK
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Japanese offshore windfarm closed due to uneconomic performance.
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Wind power is a medieval technology, which will take our society back to dark ages.
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I'd like to hear from
@RishiSunak
and
@trussliz
about their views on spending £70 effing billion pounds on net zero procurement.
Net zero is not rational. It's religion.
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Word is getting round that the Climate Change Committee is rotten. Even Private Eye has got the memo, although they have a bit more rowing back before they stop looking like establishment stooges.
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We are expected to believe:
a) Cost of wind energy has fallen through the floor.
b) The wind industry will collapse without tax breaks.
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One of the UK's newest and biggest offshore windfarms has just released its first full-year results. Here is the analysis of its income. 75% from subsidies.
This is so corrupt.
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