Lottery Funds To Fight Climate Change
By Paul Homewood
![CAFS grant[1734]](https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cafs-grant1734.jpg "CAFS grant[1734]")
It looks like National Lottery money is going to be wasted fighting climate change.
It is one thing for lottery money to be used to improve the environment, but of course reducing CO2 emissions will not make the slightest difference to the environment in Cumbria.
What is clear is that the money will be given to eco loons, to fund their pet projects. There is already talk of “climate juries”, and we have already seen how they have been used to subvert proper democracy.
One project which stands to benefit is Vista Veg. This is their website:
https://www.vistaveg.co.uk/how-it-works/
There is nothing new about farmers selling their produce straight to market, whether via farmers’ markets, arrangements with local shops, and so on. We have a lorry round each week with potatoes and veg from a couple of our local farms.
I’m not sure why it needs public money to subsidise the operation though. If there is demand for the stuff, then the market will supply it.
Comments are closed.
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Even more reasonNOT to buy a ticket. I always referred to it as a moron tax which I was delighted not to have to pay. One more example of the Woke taking over the world.
Robin Hood 2020 style – robbing the poor to give to the rich.
People grow vegetables in Cumberland in gardens and allotments and have done for generations – why should these entitled privileged eco-loons get paid to do it?
The “climate juries” idea is extremely sinister and you can be sure many climate realists will wish to gatecrash the meetings and hold them to account.
I’ve never bought a lottery ticket, I don’t think I ever will reading this.
That means you’ve won £1 every week !!
Great idea. Shame about the M6 running straight through the middle of the county which may upset their figures a bit.
Its just wasting money that could have been used better. Note the articles dont mention a single concrete project they’ll spend on, its all airy fairy wishful thinking of magic unicorns. They’ll waste it all on meetings, meetings, meetings and then on themselves for ‘co-ordinating and administering’ the meetings.
More overpriced veg-boxes with dubious quality food – medieval economics. No economies of scale – better to go to local market and buy fresh, cheap and select your choice of the best.
Lottery quango now infect with gang-green. Any quango not infected with this virus?
Worse. That they are receiving money can have a destabilizing effect on those who they are competing with who do not! Just look at the nonsense of so many lovely English town centers infested with charity shops. The system is “supposed” to be a temporary usage of vacant shop stock but do you ever see them moving on when they get established? They pay no rates AND more and more you can see them selling new stuff which again undercuts the real shops paying their way. The result? Sterile town centres infested with charity shops, card shops estate agents and gambling shops!
“Nick Gardner..head of climate lunacy at the National Lottery”! So he is a drain already of the potential for good works by the lottery! Does every charity employ a climate loon? Christian Aid has at least one and so has the RSPB! A total drain on what is supposed to be charitable giving! So is this what the Lottery has become? Forget grand meaningful public projects. Forget conservation of historical buildings, lets blow it all on pointless pontificating in our collective race towards the marxist hell which is coming!
I read from the webpage you included that they are already in partnership with Barnados! So they already understand how to create a business and chase all those subsidies. Oh I found another marxist word is in there. They are part of a “growers cooperative”. Just watch out comrade if they start referring to you as Kulaks because we all know what happened to them! Simple question for those like them who live in a perpetual subsidised neverland. They produce seasonal produce. What happens when it is….out of season? Secondly they offer a delivery service…electric 15 toners?
Cumbria has a very low population density and sod all industry so the weasels can do their number juggling very easily there but for what purpose? Notice just the usual tedious emotional waffle and buzz word bingo with heavy socialist overtones “climate crisis”, “climate action”, “renewable energy schemes”, “generating, storing and sharing energy” “Climate Emergency”…warm fuzzy feelings all round until the money runs out and they plead for more. NO mention of exactly what they are going to do which suggests wasting it on moronic vanity projects but I bet you will see a brand spanking new hydrocarbon driven tractor to replace the one in the foto and no doubt a state of the art office full of tech and new iphones and ipads for them all. Also lots of eye wateringly expensive high tech clothing covered in jazzy labels and all made with leuverly hydrocarbon derivatives! I would not be surprised to see them buying some very expensive mad cap tech running on smoke and mirrors produced not by engineers but by scientists in one of our ( or a foreign) sink university which will fail like all of their projects FAIL!
I would be extremely interested to see the details of the application which received that money. I wonder what it said? Except for emotional claptrap, not a lot is my view! How does that compare to the incredible detailed and costed submissions that the rest of lottery fund applicants have to submit to be considered?
Given that CO2 is one of the THREE important ingredients needed to make plants grow how are they reconciling the fact that the more CO2 not less then the better their plants will grow while using less water AND energy! If the numpty humanities graduates want to “reduce” carbon emissions ( I STILL am waiting to see the empirical data based proof of any need to do this), then simply they need to focus on a food distribution network in Cumbria which consumes as much of what is produced locally as possible so no need for the nonsense of juggernauts flying up the M6 and across the A66! There! Solved it!, where do I sign for my £2.5m?
This is the marxist world being pushed so hard which underpins all of this where largesse is handed out by central committees. I bet NONE of what is hidden behind the waffle has been costed showing when it can stand alone because indeed NONE of the green nonsense can survive without perpetual and increasing subsidies and WHERE does all the money go but in to the pockets of the immoral and unscrupulous people! UNsustainable but then that also is marxist…. say the opposite of what is reality!
Sorry to keep adding bits but exactly HOW MANY units of avoided climate change will that £2.5m buy I mean, there must be a metric and not just arm waving that the grant of this money is based on? Also, what is the definition of a unit of climate change and how many units are naturally produced each year and how many of the claimed remainder are man made? So many interesting and important questions which are never asked….
The top measure of efficacy of a climate policy is temperature rise avoided, say by 2100. No policy at any level can be shown to have had such an effect.
At a level of abstraction below that, we sometimes hear about CO2 emissions avoided. To the wary such calculations seem to come out of the ether, or the nether regions.
Then we have the good ol’ “clean energy generated” which is also subject to somewhat dubious accounting.
Next, and getting near the bottom now, we have “green jobs created”, as if this was a measure of anything other than wastefulness.
Finally, when one has pumped out the septic tank, one finds the bottom level of abstraction of climate policy success: money spent.
A lot of councils used the lockdown to push through cycle schemes without any consultation process , & are now asking for government money to pay for them .So more money wanted by the Green Loonies .
The most insane one is the Cambridge ” Dutch Style ” cycle priority roundabout .
In Holland , about half of the roundabouts have cycle priority , and cyclists are about 8 times more likely to be injured on them than normal ones .
So perhaps Cambridge should have checked Dutch accident figures .
Or perhaps , because it is being called ” An Organ Donor roundabout “, that might be the hidden reason as it is very near the Hospital.
Over here in actually the only real green energy country (Norway because of hydro) Where I have been incarcerated now for 6 months. Money was given because there was a serious bottle neck at a major road junction. The original plan was to have kind of a motorway junction with one road passing over the top of the other. The reality they ended up with at eye watering cost was a cycle roundabout above the junction which they replaced with a roundabout which is an even worse bottle neck than the original layout and it is now an accident blackspot! They currently are digging a tunnel for bikes only. I kid you not. In the process they are messing with the motorway next to it. This will be part of a cycle way from the center of the town out to an area called Forus in the mistaken belief that a few thousand office workers will suddenly want to emulate Sir Wiggins! It is costing squillians! Now. Norway is not the flattest country and the weather is not the best. If someone had thought for a moment to look at the demographic of those who would seriously use it to cycle to work and back they will find it is mainly young people or the tiny number of super fitness freaks who are a bit older. When normal (bad weather) like today is back and given that winter lasts around 8 months of the year, who on earth is going to use it? They built a bridge over the motorway which is for busses only. Now one bus comes maybe every 15-20 min. What is the unit cost of that bridge per use? All sense and reason has gone out of the window and if you question it…DENIER! Oh also they built and are building a bunch of wind mills because the gweeies do not want more reservoirs up in the mountains where no one lives and nothing grows so what has happened…. a cool 40% was added to the supply part of electrickery bills.
Are you seriously saying you would not want to cycle to work and back, in the freezing cold, snow and rain and in the dark? Where are your green credentials?
Should the UK have a long wet and cold winter it will be interesting to see how many of the nouveaux cyclistes are back in cars come April
“Over here in actually the only real green energy country (Norway because of hydro) …”.
Not quite: “Norway is one of the world’s most prosperous countries, and oil and gas production account for 20 percent of its economy”:
https://www.heritage.org/index/country/norway
I possibly am a robot…. all the leftie parties in Norway want to kill off the oil industry while at the same time they have a welfare bill going exponential which relies 100% on that industry.
The country’s economy is essentially sterile with the oil industry as the main and only source of revenue worth talking about. The long march of the marxists calling themselves socialists means that private industry is strangled at birth which is why you can take either hand and loose all your fingers trying to count the number of large Norwegian based corporations. Everything is stacked against the entrepreneur which is why people just do not bother to take the risk and go for the safe and relatively easy unstressed option of working in some part of the state machine. Traffic jams on the spectacularly and deliberately under resourced road system starts sometime after 2pm and no they do not start work at 0600! I just passed one of the notorious traffic jam bottle necks today on the dual carriageway laughingly called a motorway which has been having a desperately needed third lane added. I thought “sanity at last”. It is now open……and I saw painted on the road “BUSS” so it is a dedicated bus lane for local buses using the motorway (never understood that one because they cannot stop to pick up or drop people off) so they have their own dedicated lane put there at eye watering cost and everyone else still has to continue with the traffic jam misery. Oh I forgot to say. The virtue signallers in their his and hers Teslers are allowed to use the bus lanes……for now.
However you measure it state employment significantly exceeds private employment. This situation is only possible with oil revenues. This is interesting because when Norway is compared to Sweden and Denmark, state employment in Norway also exceeds the levels in those other socialist nirvanas. Across Europe state employment directly or indirectly is somewhere in the low 20%. In Norway it is over 60%. There is a government department for everything you can imagine and some for things you just cannot believe. In my day we used to call that communist which is exactly what the Swedish Foreign Minister famously did call Norway out of frustration a few years back.
As for the green religion, the country went from very poor to very rich in a very very short time and they have completely forgotten how poor they were such a short time ago. The level of hedonist decadence on display is breathtaking with the green evangelists demanding more and more money spent on worthless green vanity projects which serve only those you pay to make them. They really believe there is a magic money tree which will keep producing money without the oil industry.
The level of climate religious evangelistic insanity seen in the UK is only eclipsed by the left in Norway. They do not know which leg to shoot off first! The Sovereign Oil fund is being dipped into already and incredibly for a sack of cash generated by the oil industry is no longer allowed to invest in any oil company unless if has burdened it’s self with worthless gween kwedenthials making them in the long run less and less viable. I sat in a meeting inside one such oil company and listened to talk of a need to set up a worthless wind millstone around their necks to be “allowed” to continue functioning as an oil company. Forcing them to hand money over to charlatans to buy pointless technology in order to be allowed to exist. They have already passed the batshit crazy level. It is only a question how fast they can go on their race to the bottom.
“They do not know which leg to shoot off first! ”
They are shooting off both legs and one arm (they need the other arm to shoot off their other limbs)
As you rightly observe Norway was poor until the oil. The sovereign wealth fund and current taxes give them a good life. They do not have any other parts of their economy that could remotely take its place. In the great scheme of things their co2 is utterly irrelevant
Jonathan,
Australia where I come from is also schizophrenic, the most valuable export fluctuates between coal and iron ore depending on price, China and India being major customers.
At the same time ‘dirty’ coal is being phased out as a source of fuel for local electricity generation.
Many of the coal-fired generating plants, still operating and defunct, sit directly on the coal fields.
Obviously, they needed a new tractor – the one in the web-page is a huge polluter by the look of it – so this grant money will help with that. Bet they do’t for a swanky electric one as shown on Green Peter the other night – the one that can just manage six hours in the field before needing to be recharged overnight.
Harry! I thought about that after I made the post. Here is what will happen. Yes just like the over media hyped elektrickery powered planes that will be taking you on your holidays no time soon! They will buy at eye watering expense and lots of fanfare and foto ops where they will spout more gween propaganda, one of the gween twaktors which strangely required a substantial amount of energy and create also a substantial amount of emissions just to exist .After 6 months they will find it just cannot do the job so they will park it out of the way around the back of the shed and then have to use more of the grant to buy a proper one running on diesel producing plant food in its exhaust!
Perhaps the only fish that thrive are ones that can evade nets, the dimensions of the mesh, and so Darwinism takes over.
Good idea.
Wrong post.
“… of course reducing CO2 emissions will not make the slightest difference to the environment in Cumbria.”
True, but any meaningful reduction in carbon fuel emissions will raise havoc with the economy as the covid-lockdown has shown.
The economy is tourism and nowt much else. The West coast is in special needs category!
Partly agree, but Lake District has always been a living mixed economy, highly diverse, with its character rooted in local tradition, customs, culture, heritage and history. Economically, nothing dominates. Tourists have been coming for 200 years, no problem with that but the current overselling is deeply divisive and destructive (world heritage shite and all that).
Even Sellafield is only a very minority employer, farming also, but someone has to be guardian of the land and better farmers than the eco-loons, wildlife trusts and charities.
This area is fighting for its life, but there is a fight back against the current lunacy.
“It looks like National Lottery money is going to be wasted fighting climate change”
Climate change has become the common agenda for eco wacko movements of all colors.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/10/19/emotion/
Please explain how extra money affects climate. Idiocracy.
I will be writing a riposte to the local paper this week.
We should also start a shaming campaign with the objective that these parasites should return the money unused, in fact donate it to local people who grow vegetables and buy a lottery ticket.
This is one of the worst cases of misuse of public/lottery/grant money I can imagine.
In your riposte, perhaps you could put it to the PTB that the grant money should be recovered from the Grantee if they fail to change the climate or reduce the country’s CO2 according to the statement of objectives that they should be made to sign in order to get the money in the first place. Surely that cannot be an unreasonable request, no?
Spot on!
False hope to fight a false crisis. Sounds about right.
Previously the lottery grants went predominantly toward funding immigration and immigrants, in other words cash handouts for people not able to integrate and earn a living.
This is the final push.
It doesn’t take long does it?
19 June 2020
‘UK is no longer a ‘wet and rainy’ country, head of Environment Agency says’
“New Love Water campaign calls on Brits to save increasingly precious resource….”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/18/uk-no-longer-wet-rainy-country-head-environment-agency-says/
23 August 2020
‘Dismal wheat harvest could push up the price of bread’
“Heavy rain and flooding meant only 40pc of wheat was planted last year compared to normal”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/08/23/dismal-wheat-harvest-could-push-price-bread/
Nothing more than a money grab to finance their own agenda. Here in the USA it’s getting popular to tax the few rich who already account for 80% of taxes paid to finance more welfare . It’s nothing more than a Marxist/Socialist redistribution scheme.
i always understood that the lottery gave money to “good causes” The guidelines must have changed!.. They will have to change the adverts .. “last year we gave £500 million to good causes…. (and £2 million to dodgy woke cause). Seriously though if you ever take time to look at the recipients of grants, they have a history of giving to woke causes and ignoring more deserving and unwoke causes
The community/local/fresh gardens are a fine idea. Here in central Washington State, prior to Panic2020, many towns host farmers-markets on closed-off streets – usually on Saturdays. Ellensburg, Washington This is a small town in a large-area mostly rural setting. Search up “farmers markets” with the Images-tab to see the variety.
However, to produce food that many in the world can’t seem to figure out how to grow an excess of, here is a different sort of photo: Wheat harvest
The joke about leftists (Democrats in the US) was that they “tax and spend.” I think it’s time we realized that it’s really “tax and squander.”
‘A 10 year £100 million fund to reduce the carbon footprint of communities’
Bizarre nonsense. Brain dead bandwagon jumpers abound.
The most sinister bit is:
“A focus will be given to young people…which will amplify their voices and enhance their position of influence…”
In other words give money to those who agree with our agenda. Its blatantly political and I’m pretty sure Lottery money is supposed to be apolitical. Probably worth a challenge on that basis. Once again the “science ” does not tell us the “solution”. The solution – if any – is a political decision.
The only lottery I subscribe to is the Poppy Lottery run by the British Legion. And as far as I’m aware they do not waste my donation on stupid ideas and fake causes.
https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/ways-to-give/raffles-lotteries/poppy-lottery
Wind power has killed 2 gas power plants
Today they’ve been moth balled
Previously the install engineer tweeted
“These old CCGTs can’t work at low load factor because there ain’t enough steam
Offshore wind will kill rest off ”
The Administrators were called in at Calon Energy June 24
BBC : Two power plants are to be put into a “dormant state of managed preservation” to allow administrators more time to recover costs for creditors.
The operating companies for
– Severn Power Station, Newport
– and Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire,
called them in after holding company, Newport-based energy group Calon Energy.
– NOT Baglan Bay Power Station, Port Talbot, it is unaffected.
– It had plans to build a new combined cycle gas turbine at the former Willington power station in Derbyshire.
“The recent and ongoing challenges facing the UK power market mean that these power stations are currently not generating sufficient returns to continue trading effectively.”
So the market is so screwed up that this week we’ve got coal plants running, while some gas is sitting idle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53895806
I did see something about a 2015 upgrade, maybe it never happened.
If CO2 is a pollutant, does that mean that vegetables gown in it are toxic?
I wonder how many vegan ecco-loons one could push over the edge by telling them that.
One of the first of fourteen…
£100M ten year programme…
Glad I have rarely bought a ticket. Will be an even more rare occurrence in future.
#Defundthelottery.
Defund The eco-loons.
Stop funding eco-loons.