tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post8862695200670020782..comments2024-03-29T10:44:29.343+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Oil Price Falls: and UK Energy Policy, Too CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-66414849546477710762014-10-05T07:43:31.151+01:002014-10-05T07:43:31.151+01:00"Only four people sign up for flagship Green ..."Only four people sign up for flagship Green Deal"<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23081896<br /><br />From Barkers CV "He served as Head of International Investor Relations for Sibneft, a major Russian oil company, between 1998 and 2000"<br /><br />One year later.<br /><br />"served on the House of Commons Environmental Audit select committee between 2001 and 2005"<br /><br />And he didn't even have to go to Cambridge to get recruited. Or it could all be his own ideas. <br /><br />Personally with ideas like that, I would claim to be under instructions.<br />Gerry Manderingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-43190318313010148582014-10-04T16:08:54.862+01:002014-10-04T16:08:54.862+01:00the whole EC thing is extraordinary, given the cau...the whole EC thing is extraordinary, given the caustic response they gave DECC in December<br /><br />can fear of Putin really lie behind it ? Hinkley can't offer anything this side of 2023 !<br /><br />what leverage do UK + France have ? what did they (we) concede ? do the EU anti's have the power to block it ?<br /><br />the politics of Brussels is not my specialist subject ... Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-41799133666223904542014-10-04T01:24:32.779+01:002014-10-04T01:24:32.779+01:00Reuters have been shown the draft decision on Hink...<a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6N0RY3FE20141003?sp=true" rel="nofollow">Reuters have been shown</a> the draft decision on Hinkley C, and suggest a further delay might be possible - vote planned for Wednesday.rwendlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07861901317813829419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-19288505379813869902014-10-03T15:12:12.515+01:002014-10-03T15:12:12.515+01:00yes, Barker (an old friend of ours) was a piece of...yes, Barker (an <a href="http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2011/03/talking-crp-again-dung-power-wins-over.html" rel="nofollow">old friend of ours</a>) was a piece of work<br /><br />his obsession was anaerobic digestion, a strange fixation, don't know what that tells you about him<br /><br />factoid: the workings of a cow's stomach are 20 times more efficient at anaerobic digestion than the best current technology<br /><br />this maybe deserves an R&D programme, but no public money whatever should be given to installing that, errr, crap technologyNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16500195648330349772014-10-03T13:13:29.956+01:002014-10-03T13:13:29.956+01:00Barker the "green" champion is the guilt...Barker the "green" champion is the guilty one. Handing out endless amount of cash to anyone that fawned over him. His legacy will remain as too will the monstrosity of a "solar research" facility being built in his constituency. A massive black marble thing which stands out like a sore thumb in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Why worry about things like planning control when you have an MP for a mate.<br /><br />To think we could have had Nigel F all that time agoGerry Manderingnoreply@blogger.com