By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

More Labour lunacy:

Labour has been accused of dealing another Budget blow to farmers with its so-called “fertiliser tax”.

In the Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed plans to introduce a levy on key agricultural imports such as fertiliser in order to meet net zero goals.

The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), due to begin in 2027, will tax carbon-emitting imports such as fertiliser, cement, aluminium and products from the hydrogen and steel industries.

It comes amid outrage over the Chancellor’s £1 million cap on agricultural property relief, nicknamed the “family farm tax”, also introduced in the Budget.

The carbon tax on fertiliser is expected to be set at around £50 to £75 per tonne.

Government sources said they expect the impact on farmers to be modest and for there to be no effect on food prices.

But farmers disagree, warning it could hurt business and feed through to supermarket shelves.

David Walston of Thriplow Farm, a 900-hectare family farm, told The Telegraph’s Daily T podcast that the carbon tax on fertiliser had been introduced “under the radar” compared to the controversial changes to agricultural property relief.

“They are going to be putting a tax on imported fertiliser because fertiliser is the biggest carbon dioxide source of food production,” he said.

“Obviously the philosophy is we want to reduce that, so let’s tax the fertiliser. Well, you know, if you tax fertiliser, you make it more expensive. We’re going to use less of it.

“That means we’ll produce less food. We’re not going to eat less food in this country, so we’re just going to import it from a country that doesn’t tax fertiliser.”

Lord Fuller, chairman of the liquid fertiliser firm Brineflow, said: “This is a £150 million raid on farmers who will find it very difficult to pass that cost on through increased grain sales as they are traded on global markets.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/09/budget-fertiliser-tax-raise-food-prices-warn-farmers/

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November 10, 2024 at 02:44AM

By Paul Homewood

While Miliband puts our energy security at risk, Poland are building new gas plants:

State-owned PGE, the largest power producer in Poland, said the 1,366-MW PGE Gryfino Dolan Odra power station has entered commercial operation. The facility is now the country’s largest gas-fired power plant.

Officials on Nov. 8 said the station will supply about 5% of Poland’s electricity. PGE officials said the plant is “one of the most modern in Europe.” The investment “will strengthen Poland’s energy security and ensure a stable energy supply for more than 3 million households,” Dariusz Marzec, PGE’s CEO, said during Friday’s launch ceremony.

Miłosz Motyka, the country’s deputy climate minister, said the new facility will “not only have a direct impact on the stability of the electricity system, i.e. on security, but is also another step in the transformation of our economy.”

“Gas investment is a very important part of the energy transition and the move towards climate neutrality,” said Robert Kropiwnicki, deputy minister of state assets. “We are constantly expanding the RES [renewable energy] system.” Kropiwnicki noted, though, that renewables “need parallel stable energy sources working as a base, and at the moment there is no more flexible capacity than gas capacity.” Renewable energy accounted for about 26% of Poland’s power generation in 2023.

Poland in the past week needed to import energy from neighboring countries, including Germany, Sweden, and Ukraine as a lack of wind led to a decline in energy production from wind turbines, according to Business Insider Polska.

https://live-powermag.pantheonsite.io/poland-brings-countrys-largest-gas-fired-power-plant-online/

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November 10, 2024 at 02:17AM

This time it is about York Minster being damaged by "climate change". What they really are referring to is that it has been exposed to the weather for over 600 years and so requires a lot of repair to undo the damage caused. Nothing to do with any recent change in the climate because, as the linked article shows, there has not been any change in the climate. But how many readers would look up the data to check that? 

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