Roger Harrabin tweeting from Glastonbury last week:
Escape #Glastonbury drizzle. Join me in @greenpeaceuk tent for 25 years of reporting the #environment for #bbcnews
— roger harrabin (@RHarrabin) June 28, 2013
BBC environment correspondent in the Greenpeace camp (literally)
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He wasn’t on the PM programme the other day when it was reported that Lenovo had relocated a manufacturing plant from China to the US. Why should they be doing this? Cheaper labour than China? Easier regulations on Health and Safety than China? Not surely ..ahem cheaper energy from shale gas. No explanation was offered in the BBC report.
Harrabin. Loitering within tent.
The BBC. Green and bear it, whilst we steal your money for many nefarious purposes, and withhold the REAL news.
A reprise.
One of Harrabin’s pet campaigns:-
“Dirty tricks of the the fracking deniers: How Green zealots peddle cynical propaganda to stop Britain mining £3 trillion of shale gas…enough to keep the lights on for 141 YEARS.
Friends of the Earth said to be spreading misleading claims about dangers of shale gas.
Campaigners aimed to stop fracking by manipulating the planning system.
By DAVID ROSE.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351759/Dirty-tricks-the-fracking-deniers-How-Green-zealots-peddle-cynical-propaganda-stop-Britain-mining-3trillion-shale-gas–lights-141-YEARS.html
Tricky one.
I doubt there was a Cuadrilla tent, so if it’s raining who is to say he can not seek friendly shelter wherever he happened to be?
That said, the phrasing of that tweet will have a few BBC PR guys blowing a gasket; I read it as Greenpeace has been reporting the BBC environment news for 25 years.
I presume that was not what was meant.
I also wonder what dodge saw him there at all? I think I read that all of the 300 were only at Glasto for valid reasons.
I’d love to discover what his was/were, at least that could not be covered in a few hours. Like Edith and her ‘bump’ it seems a stretch to get anyone in on a jolly.
Maybe it was the awesome contribution to Gaia it represents as highlighted here?:
Or maybe Sir Mick’s entourage’s copter was fueled by rainbows?
Hampstead Harrabin is a political activist, not an impartial commentator.
Damian Kayha. Launched a free London weekly paper called the London Line in April 2005 (no, I don’t remember it either). Back then, it seems BBC was untroubled by anonymous donors because they never bothered to inform the reader that London Line was funded by an anonymous donor in their report of the launch. But I suppose some anonymously funded publications
“We wanted to do something that was liberal, like we think a lot of Londoners are, and that concentrated on the arts.
might be more equal than others.
Predictably, the London Line had folded by the end of 2005 and Damian Kayha turns up in 2006 as a BBC reporter on Bolivia. After a two year stint at this, he becomes a BBC Energy and Business reporter, where he pens a number of green- related articles. Finally, he leaves the BBC in 2011 and is now a Business and Energy journalist and blogger at Greenpeace UK.
So you see, there is nothing much to worry about here. Roger was probably just catching up with old colleague.
“Greens Don’t Like Fracking because They Don’t Like Prosperity”
by DANIEL HANNAN.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/greens-dont-like-fracking-because-they-dont-like-prosperity?f=must_reads
Birds of a feather stick together.
Greenpeace, Glastonbury attendees and BBC staff are all groups composed of a high proportion of high income, high energy using, high CO2 footprint people who love telling everyone else they need to live austere, simple lives so that eco-apocalypse can be averted.
I expect that every watt consumed at Glastonbury was provided by a wind turbine, or 2,000, or so – oh, and the odd solar panel array.
Over at the Greenpeace website, a greenoid (or perhaps a troll) complains
What a waste of time. Think of all the carbon consumed in staging events like Glastonbury. We should be opposing this sort of thing not supporting it!
But greenoid Zoe explains
Greenpeace has been a part of Glastonbury for years and they get a huge amount of support through the festival – it is a very effective campaigning/fundraising event for them.
If Greenpeace where ‘against this sort of thing’ (presumably against events where people get together and have a wonderful time) they would lose a huge amount of their supporters (and their money) and not be able to campaign effectively and change anything for the good!
From which I take that it’s all about getting even more money into Greenpeaces’s already overflowing coffers. The Greenpeace site at Glastonbury got a three minute plug on BBC2 last Friday evening. Anyone know the advertising rate for a 3 minute Friday evening slot on a similar but commercial channel?
You people really need to learn to be less cynical. ‘Glasto’ is a green festival. It’s all about the environment, m’kay. There are Greenpeace banners all over the place – so there – proof.
Brilliant!
i remember when glastonbury was about drugs and music. it used to be a very violent place and unless you were firmed up, you would have been robbed by people from london, the type of london person who is targeted by operation trident. Harrabin and the rest of the champagne socialist beeboids wouldnt have lasted 5 minutes.
How can Harrabin be so blatant about his bias towards greenie socialist ideology and not be sacked. ‘orrible scruffy feckin moonbat
he must have got some good ideas while he was at his moonbat convention at the weekend. wonder how long it will take before WUWT, bishop-hill and the rest will rip this to pieces
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23154073
Fracking hell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/mongolian-neo-nazis-rebrand-environmentalists
See – almost there
I just wonder if Harrabin paid for his own Glastonbury ticket.
im sure he paid for his own ticket. just like im sure he had to wait in a queue for hours with the climate change deniers
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