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Sunday, 20 August 2023

Why the energy price cap is needed in order to keep renewables cheap for the consumer

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Just as it has been announced that the energy supply companies have returned to making some money, demands are being made to scrap the energ...
Sunday, 28 August 2022

A publicly owned energy system would have much reduced the present energy price crisis - but nationalising things now won't solve this crisis

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 Amidst the unfolding horror of the UK's energy price crisis there is a debate about public ownership of the energy system to make thing...
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Friday, 29 July 2022

Big Solar Co-op Launches Community Share Offer

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  'The Big Solar Co-op is an exciting new approach to subsidy-free community solar, supported by Sharenergy. We’re working across the UK...
Saturday, 2 April 2022

Why Labour's green policies are fatally undermined by its 'nuclear first' stance

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 It is now clear from Labour's stance in the House of Commons, that nuclear power comes before every thing else. Indeed, aside from Keir...
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Sunday, 6 March 2022

world war three is now becoming more and more likely to happen

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 As I said in my last blog post , action by NATO to become directly involved with notions such as 'no fly zones' to oppose the Russi...
Monday, 28 February 2022

Why talk of western imposed 'no fly zones' and NATO attacks on Russian forces is total madness

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 I have been horrified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and am fully supportive of the sanctions on Russia and also ammunition/munitions s...
Thursday, 6 January 2022

Why we should definitely protect people with dementia against age discrimination

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 I certainly welcome the decision in favour of the discrimination case against Asda brought by a dementia sufferer who was encouraged to re...
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Dr David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Aberdeen. You can see his profile at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/david.toke?count=10 He has been campaigning on energy issues for about 35 years, and in 1990 his book ‘Green Energy’ was an influential argument in the UK for a non-nuclear approach to dealing with global warming. He was a key player in the campaign to establish feed-in tariffs for small renewable projects in the UK, achieved in 2008. He has consistently argued that the UK's proposed nuclear power programme is not only uneconomic compared to renewable energy, but that it is undeliverable short of one or more governments signing what amounts to a 'blank cheque' to pay for the nuclear power plant. His latest book, published by Routledge is called 'Low Carbon Politics'. He has published many papers in leading political science journals on environmental, especially energy (and renewable energy) issues and he is also a frequent and well cited contributor to the journal 'Energy Policy' published by Elsevier. His twitter address is @DaveToke
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