UK’s Conservative Party ber Jacob Rees-Mogg Speak Up as a Defender Who Loves Big Government Green? – Is it good?
Essay by Eric Worrall
h / t Griff, strativarius – Jacob Rees-Mogg, Right-wing Hope of the UK Conservative Party’s Small Government, speaks to the Guardian as a large left-wing government.
I am considered a ‘green energy skeptic’. I do not. Dear Guardian readers, here’s what I think
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Thursday, October 13, 2022 16.00 AEDTCritics argue that our growth program conflicts with the need to achieve net zero. They couldn’t be more wrong
It is always fascinating for me to see my own point of view through the prism of a newspaper refracted from what I think. While I am no fan of Extinction Rebellion, I can assure Guardian readers that I am not a “green energy skeptic”. I support zero smart grid, in which green energy will play the biggest role.
I am proud to belong to a country that has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% since 1990, while growing its economy by more than 70% in that time.
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Getting the British people involved with net zero requires us to demonstrate that we can go green in a way that makes them better, not worse, boosting growth instead of hindering it. and that stimulates investment and innovation rather than driving traditional industries to the brink of ruin. Our influence on energy-intensive industries increases our carbon footprint as we import more from abroad while destroying well-paying UK jobs.
There are many ways to do this that the country is adopting. Consider Contract for difference mechanism. This program has evolved to support a wide variety of renewable energy sources, from onshore to offshore wind, solar to tidal and from offshore wind to waste-to-energy production – all while reducing costs and developing the economy. The drive to produce up to 50GW of offshore wind by 2030 means the sector alone will grow to support 90,000 jobs.
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That’s why our recently announced growth plan will accelerate completion of major infrastructure projects including both onshore and offshore wind installations. The scheme will also boost the UK’s nascent hydrogen industry, which will work in harmony with the renewable energy and gas sectors.
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We are exploring low-cost financing options to help households pay for solar installations upfront, permissioned development rights to support small-scale solar deployments in commercial environments and design performance standards to further encourage renewable energy, including solar, in new homes and buildings.
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Order Order recommended Rees-Mogg there may be more than intellectual benefit in promoting green energy – To the order, Mogg’s mom is trying to get a large approved solar farm on their farmlandthis will require flipping Prime Minister Liz Truss opposes using agricultural land for solar projects.
The only evidence I have for this alleged conflict of interest between Rees-Mogg is the stories in the Order Order, so we should definitely look for a little more endorsement. But if the Order’s claims about Rees-Mogg’s mother are true, I’m disgusted.
Rees-Mogg has some questions to answer, both about the family’s alleged concerns of mulching farmland with solar panels, and his apparent turn from political advocacy. small government, to support a flamboyant spending of taxpayers’ money on useless green energy.
If solar was the cheaper option and had any potential to improve the lives of ordinary people, it would not need government subsidies, market-distorting solar quotas, and government regulation. Government provides cheap finance to proceed. Private backers will take turns providing funds without any intervention from the government.
Rees Mogg’s claim that green energy has any potential to improve the lives of ordinary people is absurd in my opinion. His lavish offer of cheap financial aid government money for green expansion is, in my opinion, a stark contrast to his carefully cultivated reputation with as one low taxes conservative small government.
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