Apparently we can trace the path Hannibal took over the Alps by tracking the piles of ancient elephant shit left in his wake. No doubt in future we can trace the path that links the mountainous pile of ruinous green legislation that’s attacking our industry to the BBC office of Roger Harrabin by the mounds of bullshit left on route.
This from the BBC doesn’t make any sense at all….via Bishop Hill…
Ed Davey was interviewed on the Today programme this morning. He was introduced as a former SoS for Energy and Climate Change, and was asked to defend the economics of the planned EDF nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point, which he was responsible for arranging while in office. The deal between the government and EDF is extraordinary on any analysis, and the project has consequently been called ‘the most expensive power station in the world’. Your interviewer rightly brought up the fact of this expense being a burden that the bill payer and tax payer would have to shoulder for decades to come.
However, since being removed from office by the voting public, Davey has taken a position at MHP Communications — EDF’s PR firm — as was revealed by The Times. Davey was given the opportunity to speak to your listeners to defend the deal he was responsible for, and his function as an interested party in EDF’s business was not brought up in the discussion.
The BBC’s response…
We raised your concerns about the Ed Davey interview with the Today programme. They explained that the programme was aware that Sir Ed Davey is an employee of MHP but it took note of the agreement he reached with the Government’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments which agreed that “…he would not have any involvement with EDF whatsoever in relation to their generating business prior to the announcement of a final investment decision in relation to Hinkley Point C.”
This deals with any issues of a potential conflict of interest in relation to MHP’s contract with EDF.
So Davey would not have any role whatsoever in EDF until a final decision was made on EDF and yet there he is on the BBC defending the the economics of the EDF plant.
The BBC covering up for their old dodgy Libdem green friend who wants to bankrupt industry to save the planet.
On that note there’s this from the GWPF with a very current bit of news…
EU Climate Policy Threatens Future Of European Steel Industry
The planned reform of CO2 emissions trading in Europe threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs in Germany. This is the conclusion of a study by the research institute Prognos and commissioned by the German Steel Association. “The industrial business model of the German economy is at stake,” warned association president Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff.
According to the Prognos study, production and employment in the German steel industry would collapse by two thirds by 2030.
252,000 jobs are lost in the service sector alone, according to the study, around 71,000 in industry, 37,000 in the steel sector and 17,000 in the construction industry. And that are rather conservative assumptions, Limbers says.
Not seen anything on the BBC about this yet….considering British steel production is already on its knees due in no small part to Miliband’s green taxes this could only utterly destroy the industry here. No interest from Harrabin and Co?
Once the BBC Trust is abolished we will probably find out some interesting facts from the BBC Trust legal team documents, around these issues.
(1) Why was Richard Tait replaced by Richard Ayre?
(2) Why was Jos Wheatley and Tessa Tennant replaced by Tim Jackson and John Ashton on the official seminar attendance list?
(3) Was Roger Harrabin at that seminar or not?
(4) Did it really cost the BBC over £250,000 to hide the lies?
(5) Is it legal for the BBC to use environmental activists to advise the BBC to overturn its due impartiality rules on Climate science?
(6) Is it legal for the BBC to lie to Parliament and the General Public about the quality of its advisers, who included not one attributional Climate scientist?
(7) Did the BBC Trust really advise the BBC to get rid of Professor Peter Cox?
Thank you as ever Richard. I am aware of all those issues apart from the reference to getting rid of Prof Peter Cox. Do you have any further info? Obviously I am aware of Prof Bellamy and Nigel Calder appearing to be elbowed out of the BBC on account of their heretical thinking on Climate. But what of Prof Peter Cox please?
Professor Peter Cox of the Climate Systems Dynamics group at the University of Exeter is a founding member of the Coupled Climate-Carbon Cycle Intercomparison Fantasy, and was a lead-author on the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment reports. Born in 1964 in London, he moved to Hassenbrook, Stanford-le Hope, Essex as a child. Left Palmers 6th Form College in 1982, and qualified with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London in 1990. He then joined the Hadley Centre. He is now destroying Britain’s scientific credibility as a member of the Science Advisory Group for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. Peter Cox was responsible for the rebellion of 43 Royal Society members due to his contribution to the authorship of the “Climate Change Controversies” document. His role as scientific advisor to the BBC ended in 2008 after causing a rebellion amongst Mensa members over his role as scientific advisor to the BBC documentary “Hot Planet“ which apparently used the same science as in the Royal Society document. A Member complained on behalf of at least three other members, including me, about his contribution to the BBC documentary “Hot Planet”.
Speaking of blind eyes, given the BBC’s stellar record of holding power to account without fear or favour, I will be interested how Norm, Nick, Kirsty & Emily tear into this one…
http://order-order.com/2016/04/06/taxpayer-charged-9-3-million-for-pro-eu-leaflets/
That is, if time, space and editorial integrity preclude mention, or using public money to push the agenda is simply tickedy-boo when it suits.
I was amazed that the number of households had increased to 27 million. It was only a year or two back that we had 24.5 million households in the UK and house building has been in the doldrums for much longer than that.
On these two issues plus the Press Release today on Diabetes the BBC certainly has questions to answer, not least about the continuing drastic decline in the quality of its journalism.