UK: Why are we going back to coal?

This Governments antediluvian policy of backing a new coal-fired power station is absurd

Fashionable though it is to rail against plastic bags – our own Prime Minister recently penned a Daily Mail assault on this incarnate evil – the climate change battle will not be won by the phoney war on bags, light bulbs and bottled water.

It is energy supply that will determine how quickly Britain goes green. Rather than trying to herd millions of individual consumers into taking tiny steps, the Government could change energy supply with one stroke of the pen. But the pen seems to be doodling wildly at the margins of the page.


There are only two things that will determine whether the world can step back from climate change havoc. One is forests, which are disappearing at an alarming rate and which act as