June 18, 2015
The Power of Sustainable Energy For All
Kandeh Yumkella is the inspirational leader of the UN’s Sustainable Energy 4 All campaign. On Thursday last week, he gave the keynote speech to the 2015 Ashden Awards.…
June 9, 2015
Friends Of The Earth: Still Critical to Anti-Nuclear Movement
It’s never a good thing to fall out with an organisation that one loves. But, at the moment, that’s how it is for me with Friends of the Earth. And it’s all about nuclear. The…
April 14, 2015
Getting to Grips with Ben van Beurden
Sorry if it’s beginning to look as if I’m engaged in something of a vendetta against Mr Ben van Beurden, the Chief Executive of Shell. But for all sorts of reasons he seems to…
March 10, 2015
What’s More, Nuclear Power is NOT a Source of Low-Carbon Electricity
For those who dutifully followed the trail of my anti-nuclear invective yesterday, you may perhaps, even now, despite the weight and depth of the arguments against nuclear power,…
March 9, 2015
Hinkley Point: the Beginning of the End
I’ve always said that the two proposed new reactors at Hinkley Point would never get built. Now I’m not just saying it: I’m absolutely convinced that they’ll never get built. A…
March 2, 2015
Shell’s Moral Muddles
My friend Jeremy Leggett caused a bit of a stir recently by predicting that one of the big oil majors would, before the end of the year, ‘do an E.ON’, imitating what E.ON did by…
November 26, 2014
Some friendly advice for the Secretary of State
Summon into your mind, for a moment, the image of a deeply perplexed Ed Davey, late at night, deep in thought, sitting there behind his Secretary of State’s desk in the Department…
November 19, 2014
The UK’s Ongoing Nuclear Fiasco
It’s nearly a month since the EU Commission approved the UK Government’s financial arrangements with EdF to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point. There was always a rather…
September 9, 2014
A Solar Revolution – the positive impact of solar power around the world
One of the very first big pieces of research that Forum for the Future conducted was for BP in the late 1990s, looking at the prospects for the growth of solar PV in the UK; BP…
September 5, 2014
Pity the Prime Minister in his Energy Confusion
I’m always rather heartened by the fact that the Prime Minister takes his holidays in Cornwall – for the simple reason that at least once a year he gets to see wind turbines in…