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Monday, 12 October 2020

Please sign the petition for Scotland to set 100 per cent renewable energy target

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  Please sign the petition for Scotland to set 100 per cent renewable energy target.  See the 100percentrenewableuk blog at https://100perce...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Is Treasury about to cave in over EDF's demand for a blank cheque for Sizewell C?

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 It is looking increasingly likely that the British Government is about to cave-in to EDF's demand that the British energy consumers sho...
Monday, 21 September 2020

Be careful what you wish for - why letting ex-pat Scots vote in an independence referendum might not give the result its protagonists want

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 What started off as looking like a whakky idea - allowing a Scottish independence referendum on the proviso that all people who would be el...
Monday, 31 August 2020

Why we're not heading for a 'no-deal' Brexit - the Brits will cave in and then claim the EU 'blinked'

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 I'm a student of the 'new normal' in politics - that's the post so-called populist revolution new normal - which means that...
Thursday, 27 August 2020

Why we shouldn't head back to the offices just to save the property owners from losing money

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 Big Capitalism rarely gets as self-mocking as when it is crying out for state subsidies to preserve the failing out-of-date technologies of...
Wednesday, 22 July 2020

How Scottish independence will boost green energy

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If, as now seems likely, Scotland becomes independent in the next 5 years, green energy should get a major boost. A Scottish Government will...
Friday, 3 July 2020

Why we should enthusiastically back solar farms in the countryside

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As far as the prospect of solar farms in the countryside are concerned, I simply say 'the more the merrier'. Surely if we are facin...
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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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