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Monday, April 7, 2014
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Energy Policy 2014 “Keeping the lights on”:
http://www.ukipmeps.org/uploads/file/energy-policy-2014-f-20-09-2013.pdf
Selected quotes
“A recent study conducted by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University [UK] has demonstrated that the capital costs of wind plus gas back-up are up to ten times that of gas alone” .
“There are increasing doubts about the theory of man-made climate change... There has now been no significant climate change for nearly two decades”.
“These problems [of renewable] are reflected in the eye-watering subsidies we pay for renewables ... these subsidies are also profoundly regressive. They take money from poor consumers, including pensioners, and give it to rich landowners and corporations.”
“Renewables are not about “green jobs”. They’re about green unemployment”.
“The 2008 Climate Change Act: This Act is one of the most expensive ever passed in peace-time, threatening costs of £18 billion a year for forty years — £720 billion in all.”
“Despite the black propaganda of the green movement, and the quite understandable concerns of the public following the Fukushima incident, nuclear remains the safest mainstream generating technology available — far safer than coal or hydro”.
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