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May 25, 2025 at 04:00AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
The Telegraph is reporting that BP may pull out of its hydrogen project on Teesside:
A massive hydrogen project at the heart of Ed Miliband’s net zero plans risks being cancelled as BP retreats from green targets.
The H2Teesside scheme, announced in 2021 by the company’s then chief executive Bernard Looney, was designed to produce “blue” hydrogen from natural gas, and then capture and store the carbon emissions.
It had been slated to deliver more than 10pc of the 2030 target set by Mr Miliband, the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, for hydrogen production and was expected to come online by the late 2020s.
But sources have warned that BP is now likely to scale back or even cancel the 1.2 gigawatt project as it struggles to secure enough customers to make the investment worthwhile.
The FTSE 100 company is currently in talks with the Government about whether greater state support can be provided, with Mr Miliband’s department viewing the scheme as a potentially important source of hydrogen for both industrial uses and power plants.
Apparently one of the major issues is the potential closure of the nearby Sabic chemical plant, which it was hoped would buy a lot of the BP hydrogen.
The Saudi’s who own Sabic may close their plant because of high energy costs. It is not without irony that any hydrogen they ended up buying would be much more expensive than the natural gas they currently use!
This is all in stark contrast to the green fanfare when BP originally announced the project back in 2021, which the Telegraph covered here. Hydrogen apparently was going to be our saviour in the battle against global warming.
That was in the days of Bernard Looney, who had fallen for the green agenda hook, line and sinker.
Now BP’s new team have returned to realityville, and have come to the conclusion that nobody wants to replace fossil fuels with something much more expensive.
If governments want it, let them pay for it is now the policy.
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May 25, 2025 at 03:05AM
Massively subsidised and totally chaotic wind and solar are central to the net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions scam. Only a handful of Western countries have signed up to the self-inflicted economic destruction. And among them, the working and productive classes are starting to revolt against the pointless and insane costs of trying to reduce the tiny fraction of carbon dioxide gas generated by human beings.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
Richard Tice kicks off with this piece that details the staggering cost of complying with a completely pointless policy – pointless that is, unless the object is wrecking energy supplies and every last vestige wealth and prosperity.
It’s time to face facts. Net zero is destroying the economy
Yahoo News
Richard Tice
9 May 2025
Jo Nova reports on the revelation that the CCP has embedded devices in solar panel inverters and lithium batteries – providing for real-time surveillance and control of their enemies in the West.
Secret comms devices, radios, hidden in solar inverters from China. Would you like a Blackout with that?
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
16 May 2025
Meanwhile, as Elizabeth Rayne explains, China is developing its nuclear power generation capacity with investment in thorium generation technology.
A Thorium Reactor in the Middle of the Desert Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Popular Mechanics
Elizabeth Rayne
Date 2025
The team from Jo Nova details the depth and degree of suffering experienced by Brits, thanks to the UK’s obsession with intermittent wind and solar.
If UK had never tried renewables, each person would be £3,000 richer
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
22 May 2025
In the final article, Andrew L Urban brings it home with a look at how Australia’s energy rich history is being turned into a tale of suicidal and deliberate energy poverty.
Chris Bowen’s socialist, energy-poor future
The Spectator
Andrew L Urban
16 May 2025
Anthony ‘Albo’ Albanese is determined to undermine (poor pun) Australia’s economy in pursuit of a socialist, energy-poor future. The evidence for that claim is him welding Chris Bowen to the climate change and energy portfolio post-election. In my opinion, energy is the economy and Bowen is its mortal enemy.
Inarguably, energy is an existential policy area. Get it wrong for too long, and a nation’s well-being will crumble more and more noticeably. First, power prices rise along with the cost of everyday goods, then comes the stuttering public services. Next, manufacturing disruptions and widespread power outages … slow at first, then sudden. By the time the food in your freezer goes off, it will be too late. The ‘Energizer Bunny’ will be extinct.
Bowen’s policy settings prioritise the reduction and ultimate elimination of carbon dioxide emissions by fossil fuels over all other considerations. There is scant attention to the provision of genuinely reliable energy.
His portfolio focuses on transitioning Australia to a renewable energy-dominated grid, with a target of 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, backed by storage solutions like batteries and pumped hydro, and a reduced role for coal and gas. This transition is part of Labor’s broader climate agenda, including achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050 and a 55 per cent emissions reduction by 2035. Don’t laugh, this is serious. Bowen’s policies, such as the Capacity Investment Scheme, the Home Battery plan, and the Solar Sunshot initiative, aim to bolster renewable energy infrastructure and manufacturing while phasing out fossil fuels.
These policy settings have been developed on the basis of what the law calls ‘hearsay’ evidence which effectively claims that (the 3 per cent of) carbon dioxide in the atmosphere produced by burning fossil fuels drives global warming. Although this has never been shown to be factual, it has been widely accepted, along with the claim that warming is caused by CO2 … contrary to the geological evidence.
These beliefs have encouraged policies that demonise fossil fuels (plentiful in Australia) in favour of unreliable alternatives that demand massive subsidies and drive up consumption costs, adding to higher prices and the cost of living. Adding insult to injury is the ‘Albowen’ line that renewables are the cheapest form of power, as consumers face extensive power price rises. Defying facts runs in the climate alarmist family.
In short, Net Zero is pollie-speak for sabotage – a wilful disruption to an energy-rich country. To help sell the transition to renewables in political terms, the term ‘clean energy’ has been co-opted to mask reality. The dishonesty here is blatant, casting invisible, clean, life-essential carbon dioxide as ‘dirty’ by contrast. This is more evidence that the climate narrative was always about manipulating politics, not global warming.
Albowen politics explains why Australia continues to earn billions exporting fossil fuels but chokes their use domestically, restricting Australians’ access to our once abundant and inexpensive energy – it ain’t saving the planet.
The Spectator
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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May 25, 2025 at 02:34AM
Global warming campaigners demonize CO2, but what else impacts temperature?
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May 25, 2025 at 01:31AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 