Sentences with phrase «green energy scheme»

When a botched green energy scheme was revealed to have massively overspent — apparently largely on grants to DUP - supporting farmers — Sinn Fein pulled the plug on Stormont.

His analysis shows that despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from green energy schemes driven by the renewable energy target, Victoria's wind - farm developments have saved virtually zero carbon dioxide emissions in the state.

Not exact matches

Recycling and green energy technologies in the food and beverage industry, left, CST's SFC Screen Extractor, centre, and a successful initiative by Goulburn Mulwaree Council involving medium pressure ultraviolet (UV) disinfection supplied by CST Wastewater Solutions for its effluent irrigation scheme, which has conserved potable water.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

Nonetheless the next Tory government will green the tax system (after kicking green taxation into the long grass for the duration of the recession), stop the expansion of Heathrow, begin exploratory work on a high speed rail network and also oversee an innovative energy efficiency scheme that will see future reduced home energy bills pay for insulation measures now.

Figure 1: Percentage ownership (blue), and voting power under two schemes — standard (red) and BBEP's 20 % cap (green) for Quicksilver Resources Inc. and The Baupost Group, the two largest stakeholders of Breitburn Energy Partners.

wHY's organic landscape - focused scheme respects the historic setting yet brings new energies, opens up views, transforms access and increases overall green space within West Princes Street Gardens.

«Given these facts, we can reasonably conclude that the green energy industry is little more than a corporate welfare scheme marketed under the guise of noble intentions.»

The easiest way to develop a tax narrative is via income tax increases for the very wealthy — you can easily sell this to the 51 % of voters you need more easily than the technical details about energy security, environmental discourse, science and uncertainty, precautionary principles, climate policy stabalisation assessment, green legacies, global trading schemes, UN COP frameworks ALL of which have to be defended for the policy framework to be politically feasible.

He does not question this IPCC claim; however, I have no reason to believe that he supports any of the drastic CO2 - mitigation schemes — be they carbon sequestration or alternative «green» energy projects — or that he has illusions about the efficacy of the Kyoto Protocol or similar measures of international control.

And then it added in another $ 15 a year to account for losses in transmission of green energy, the retailers» profit margin on these schemes and «headroom» — which allows retailers to either make even more profits or have a margin to «compete» with.

(Reuters)-- China will extend subsidies for new energy «green» vehicles to 2020, according to draft rules published on Tuesday, extending the current incentive scheme which expires at the end of 2015.

These policies include emission trading («cap & trade»), carbon sequestration from power plants, and various costly schemes for developing alternative, «green» forms of energy.

But its proposed emissions intensity scheme could boost green energy without any hard target at all.

A botched green energy subsidy scheme will cost U.K. taxpayers more than $ 1.4 billion, or more than 45 times its initial cost projections, according to a whistleblower.

The greatest inconsistency in Macfarlane's argument is his approach to schemes such as the CEFC, which he says uses «taxpayers money to buy shares in green energy projects that the private sector will not support.»

«Yeo's first committee task will be to examine this month's National Audit Office report on government funding for renewable energy, covering taxpayer incentives and the «renewables obligation» scheme that forces electricity generators to invest in green energy.

The Greens, under Brown's leadership, were instrumental in creating one of the world's most significant pieces of climate change legislation, setting up a carbon trading scheme, taxing pollution and providing ten billion dollars for renewable energy.

The bloom should be off the rose that is the premise that Tom Steyer is a saint for promoting green energy — when in reality he is behind a major scheme in which financiers «qualify» homeowners to install solar panels, with the solar credits (taxpayer dollars) accruing not to the individual but to the financiers (Steyer and his cronies).

The first scheme of renewable energy grants for Irish homeowners, the Greener Homes Scheme, was launched on Monday 27th March 2006 and will make grant funding available to homeowners looking to install renewable energy heating technology

In Europe policy makers are killing the economy by CO2 trading schemes, other energy taxes and green subsidies.

Besides the EPA regulations attempting to impose the substitution of «green» energy for fossil fuels, the one constant has been the demand for government and ratepayer subsidies for all these schemes.

The bills set up a cap and trade scheme on carbon pollution, with related legislation concerning green energy and compensation.

«Green certificates are one example of national support schemes that correct for unfavorable energy markets or distortions, thus ensuring that cogeneration capacity is rewarded for the benefits it provides to the energy system,» continued COGEN's Korteweg.

In the greater scheme of things, and while this is a proper approach, green building materials and finishes alone can not help overome the energy challenge we are facing today.

This is what the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal had to say about price impacts on energy and price rises in the state: «From July 2012 the cost of complying with green schemes will contribute around $ 316 on average to an indicative regulated electricity customer's bill in NSW.

Officials admitted that so - called «green» energy schemes will require -LSB-...]

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Green energy campaigners are complaining about a proposed cut in the Feed - In Tariff (FIT) scheme which promises owners of domestic solar PV up around # 0.433 per kilowatt hour, but which will «only» give them # 0.21 per kWh.

A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.

Once you concede that AGW is real, that opens the door for the various anti-carbon schemes — carbon trading, carbon taxes, decarbonization, mega-engineering projects and the wholesale replacement of inexpensive, reliable hydrocarbon energy with very expensive, unreliable green energy.

Whether you're a morning person or a sleepyhead, you'll benefit from a bedroom done up in a high - energy color scheme, such as red and blue or lime green and hot pink.