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"NIE Networks reported a pre-tax profit of £181m in 2024, a 98% surge from 2023, leading to a £53.6m dividend to its parent company, the Irish state-owned ESB. How are these margins achievable in a monopoly, regulated company?"
Read Stephen Kelly: tinyurl.com/4392rsyf
Neil Holland retweeted
Don't be fooled by those calling for "climate realism." It’s nothing more than denial disguised as pragmatism. In reality, we not only have a moral obligation to solve the climate crisis, we have the tools we need to act now. Check out my latest @TEDTalks ted.com/talks/al_gore_why_cl…
Neil Holland retweeted
We're in the "Don't Look Up" era.
Climate change is accelerating faster than expected, the science is clear and yet denial is thriving. Worse still, parties like Reform UK spread deliberate misinformation to gain votes.
Sea surface temperatures are 8 standard deviations above normal in the Mediterranean, truly unprecedented levels of anomalous warmth.
Neil Holland retweeted
Congratulations to Lisburn’s Camlin Group UK winners of the Digital Technology Award in #insiderMadeInUK
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NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY @SouthWestWater
You know all that nonsense about WCs being transparent and accountable? Well guess what, it's all rubbish.
Take this example, South West Water. Here's what their current sewage dumping in Cornwall looks like when viewed on independent site sewagemap.co.uk This is what's going on this morning.
Yet when you look at SWW's website at the same scale you see nothing, just a nice picture of where the local bathing beaches are.
Cynical old SWW have deliberately programmed their website so you can't ever see any sewage dumping at all until you zoom right in to a very, very local level, at no point do you get to see the full scale and extent of the sewage dumping they're currently get up to on their website.
NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY!
Neil Holland retweeted
I’m sure Pete Hegseth REALLY doesn’t want the world to remember when he suggested Hillary Clinton should be “fired on the spot” and criminally prosecuted for mishandling info — so please don’t repost this right this very minute.
Neil Holland retweeted
Zonal pricing would improve costs for 5m UK businesses, and 29 million households
It'd also reduce the amount of expensive new energy infrastructure we need to build, and ensure it's built in the locations with highest demand, not highest subsidies
Here's the SMF @SMFthinktank
🚨OUT TODAY: High energy prices threaten UK’s world-leading AI status, as data centres can’t keep up
Today, we set out a plan for addressing of industrial electricity, which is pricing UK out of global data centre market
Report: smf.co.uk/publications/data-…
Neil Holland retweeted
Must watch explanation on clean energy by @g__j on #BBCQT - also watch Tim Stanley squirm repeatedly when Jackson gives answers
Greg Jackson, "We've crossed the rubicon.. Clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels"
"Power from wind and solar is cheaper than power from fossil fuels"
"Consumers don't see the benefits because our markets are run in the old traditional way"
"We need market reform so when we build wind farms, people get cheaper energy"
"It doesn't help that we are paying wind farms to turn off when it's windy, instead of giving people cheap power at those times"
"59% of all of the renewable energy has been built in China"
Fiona Bruce, "They're also building huge coal plants"
Greg Jackson, "The majority will never be used, they'll be mothballed"
"Why are they building green energy? It's not because they're nice people. Now they recognise clean energy is cheaper, and energy is the engine of growth for their industry, they're investing in it"
"Six or seven years ago if you went to Chinese cities people wore face mask because of air pollution.. That's gone"
Tim Stanley, "If you have a period where the wind dies and the sun doesn't shine, what happens, you have to rely on back up.. Rely on gas.. Import the power from overseas"
Greg Jackson, "Allow me to help you with this answer.. As somebody who buys more power than anybody in the UK.. I can give you an authoritative answer on what to do"
"An electric car holds enough power in its battery for a typical house in the best part of the week"
"As more and more electric cars hit our roads, we have distributed storage of electricity, days on end, without wind"
"It's not the whole solution but it's a big part of it.. And it helps us reduce our reliance on things like those fossil fuel backups"
"It's always windy somewhere, it's always sunny somewhere.. As we connect our country to others.. When they're windy we get their power, when we're windy we sell ours to them"
"By the way, we are one of the windiest places in the world.. This is a huge export opportunity for the UK"
Neil Holland retweeted
Tesco say they will pay £1b over this Parliament. So £200m per year. They are on target to make a £2.9 BILLION profit this year. They also employ 30,000 people who they expect to be educated and provided health care by the state. Pay up and stop whining #r4today
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This is very fishy.
@energygovuk has refused an FOI request from @campaigncc, asking for the Gov’s 'Assessment' justifying why £22 billion of public money should be paid to oil companies for carbon capture.
Hiding behind ‘commercial sensitivity’.
@Andrew9Boswell @GeorgeMonbiot
Neil Holland retweeted
This should have happened a decade ago.
Developers have lobbied government for years to allow them to install fossil fuel heating systems all which will need to be replaced eventually with clean heating.
The faster we stop locking in new fossil heating tech the better.
Neil Holland retweeted
Do Labour's hours of a hydrogen driven future hold water? Good piece in the Times. "Just to decarbonise the existing use of hydrogen in this country with green hydrogen would cost you £42 billion. We need to have a grown-up conversation about that.”
thetimes.com/uk/article/do-l…
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Must have run out of space before they could mention Dyson bought 36k acres of farmland to avoid inheritance tax.
James Dyson blasts Rachel Reeves’s ‘spiteful’ budget
Ignorant swipe at aspiration will kill off family businesses, entrepreneur says as backlash grows over inheritance tax reforms
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Neil Holland retweeted
Absolutely feel for @ThangamDebb here - she’s explaining, with perfect clarity, how court cases and public information around them work…
…and Kevin Hollinrake seems incapable of processing the basics.
It’s like a Blackadder conversation with Baldrick.
Neil Holland retweeted
Rachel Reeves announces plans in #Budget2024 that NO ONE in England on waiting list more than 18 weeks
In England 0.038% of people have been waiting over 2 yrs
Equivalent in NI is 38.5%, over a THOUSANDx higher
In NI, 1 in 29 waiting 5 yrs+ some 8yrs+
How is this acceptable?
Neil Holland retweeted
NEW ANALYSIS: Gas grid planning is stuck in the past.
To meet the European climate targets we will need to see a substantial reduction in fossil gas use.
But in many countries gas grid planning is still based on the assumption of infinite gas use.
How to solve this mismatch?
More in our new report.👇
@RegAssistProj @oekoinstitut
raponline.org/toolkit/gas-di…
