Is Swansea Bay For The Chop?
June 1, 2018
By Paul Homewood
https://twitter.com/JH_Ambrose/status/1002477119996383232
This actually fits in with other sources I have seen.
Watch this space!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
A little smattering of good sense still survives apparently
The energy Minister, hitherto at least a victim of deceptions from the Green Blob, ought to learn from this encouraging repudiation of scammers’waste of money, ours, on token measures, useful neither for electricity generation nor the climate, (nor anything else.)
Hope Mrs Perry might gain conversion away from the insane reactions of the Greens.
Previous holders of her post, e.g, jailbird Huehne and, just as loopy, Davey,are terrible examples, but the atractive looking Claire Perry, not a Liberal, has a chance of recanting..
One of Claire Perry’s contemporaries at Brasenose was journalist George Monbiot who described her in his column for The Guardian as, at the time, “a firebrand who wanted to nationalise the banks and overthrow capitalism”. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Perry#Early_life
Douglas, I wrote to her recently and asked her about that entry in Wiki. Her reply was literally scrawled at the end of a form letter her Green staffer had prepared for her. Effectively, it said, ‘I never said that. Don’t believe all you read on Wiki’.
My thought was, if I was a minister of the Crown I would get one of my staff to correct the entry and not leave it for all to see. But then, we are talking of someone whose IQ matches the complete Oxford boat crew: Nine!
Perhaps it is too stupid even for our moronic government to agree to. Shame the investment in Wylfa is to late to save the aluminium plant that was providing some real jobs on Anglesey. The lack of a guaranteed power supply when the original power station closed caused the closure. The demolition of some of the buildings featured on a Quest programme – Scrap Kings I think.
“The demolition of some of the buildings featured on a Quest programme – Scrap Kings I think”
Indeed they did – and not without a fight, as I remember!
Oh no, this can only mean that the Kinnock spawn will be all over the BBC for several days, with no mention of the ridiculous price that the next generation would have had to pay for next to nothing.
Young Kinnock was already given free reign at top of Radio Lincs 2pm news, to spout on the steel tariffs and call Trump a bully etc.
“Stephen Kinnock, Labour MP for Aberavonwhose constituency includes Port Talbot steel works has criticised US President Donald Trump … “
Not before time. I have spent a lot of time on understanding the engineering and economic realities of this project. It doesn’t add up…
Wow a journalist owning up to real world mathematics.
\\ Finally, the mercy-killing which should have come years ago //
Jillian Ambrose owns up… wow
The inefficiencies and subsidy costs are not paid by unicorns , they are paid by the British public.
Yet supporting GreenDream PR is like supporting water running down hill, it seems a no brainer… but it is not right.
I spot someone in the comments giving a link to Holyhead project
It’s just a tiny 10MW thing of different tech ie tidal array by Minesto owners of the Strangford Lough tidal thingy
https://minesto.com/projects/holyhead-deep
Now let’s see what Ms Perry has too decide. A power station with a capacity factor of over 90% or a green project giving a small amount of intermittent power and hugely damaging to the environment of the Bristol Channel. It’s a tough call for someone with little understanding of what her ministry is supposed to do.
Is the media biased ?
The FT article ends with a box
One less energy white elephant would be progress these days.
If this is correct, track record dictates the decision was was not arrived at via common sense. I can therefore ony come to the conclusion that the bungs were not big enough to cover all those involved.
Perhaps Private Eye frightened them off:
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/news
Sorry – issue changed between bookmarking and using. Majored on economies with the truth about incentives to the local council.
Ian, Hope this link helps instead. It takes you to the article in Private Eye you are referring too. The one where Mark Shorrock profusely denies making a financial inducement. DOH! http://www.cads2015.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Private-Eye-No-1470.pdf
There’s more on Mark Shorrock in the latest edition of Private Eye out on the newsstands now. That’s a belter of a read too.
That’s the one, Garry. Thanks.
Common sense never prevails in UK energy policy, if it did the scheme should never have got past the joke proposition stage.
Undoubtedly some stink has made the project a bit too hot to handle.
Can anyone peer behind the paywall?
https://www.ft.com/content/c6454bac-64c1-11e8-90c2-9563a0613e56
Allegedly confirms the story.
Well it would do since it’s the one Ambrose quotes
I can see it if you want to know anything
It’s got 121 comments
many from dramagreens get most votes 28
plenty also from skeptics 11 votes
http://www.pixie-energy.com/welsh-secretary-alarmed-by-tidal-lagoon-costs/
Leaked email – “the numbers are horrific”.