I am involved quite extensively in the making of what I believe to be a valuable independent documentary. It is based on George Ponsonby’s excellent book London Calling, and has the working title How the BBC Stole the Referendum. We have already done a few hours filming of my contribution.
The film is being directed by Alan Knight. It still requires some finance, having raised over £12,000 so far from crowd sourcing. If any readers of this blog can make a contribution, it would be gratefully received. I vouch for the good faith and commitment of the production team, though I am not in any sense connected with the management or finances.
I should like to ask for a couple of other bits of help as well. Can anybody find the BBC footage of the appalling Gavin Esler puff piece for the “Vote No Borders” PR campaign. The BBC broadcast it repeatedly on every TV news programme on 2 May 2014, but seem to have managed to erase all trace of it from the internet. It might also be useful if somebody could take a little video footage of the company nameplate of Acanchi Ltd at 24 Chiswell Street, London, EC2Y 4YX. Footage of the nameplate, the street sign and a little of the surroundings, just to visually establish it is in London. The technical quality of that little bit of video is not terrifically important.
UPDATE
See Gill R’s comment below. The company may be at Unit 311 Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH. If anyone can easily get to either address and see what they can film it would still be helpful.
Giyane “Why should people give electricity to the grid without being paid for it? That’s what feed in tariff means, payment for feeding into the grid”
Oh dear. Ordinarily the fed in tariff is paid to non firm, non despatchable generation, such as wind and solar. When it is windy you get more wind generation i.e. you increase supply. This has the effect of lowering the prevailing market price – sometimes to zero. In such circumstances the operators of conventional plant are paid zero but the operators of plant subject to the feed in tariff still get paid the subsidy.
Who would build a conventional power plant on such a basis? Answer no-one and hence you need to introduce further subsidies in order to attract new conventional plant. This is what the capacity auction is all about, albeit it is not yet working to delive the magnitude of subsidies required.
Germany is a “world leader” in subsidised renewables. When it is both windy and sunny Germany gets more power than it needs and often seeks to export that power to neighboring countries – whether they want it or not.
TenneT, the Dutch grid operator, has issued a number of warnings that such a practice endangers the integrity of the Dutch transmission system. On March 27th of this year a material power cut occurred in the the Netherlands as a consequence of “grid overload”
This was caused by excess renewable power generation – all of which was paid prevailing Feed in Tariff rates. The adverse costs of the Dutch power cut was not borne by those who caused the problem, but rather was smeared over the entire economy.
Now do you understand why the feed in tariff is a subsidy?
BBC bias
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-forced-admit-it-misled-over-palestine
For the second time in just over six months, the BBC has been forced to admit that its flagship news and current affairs program — Today — has misled its audiences over the situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In a broadcast in October, veteran presenter John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly implied in a two-way conversation that all of those killed in that month’s violence were Israeli.
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In fact, at the date of broadcast, on 19 October, more than 40 of those killed were Palestinian and fewer than 10 Israeli.
Your ilk would say that wouldn’t they?
Big up the none existent threats and play down the real threats!
Putin has not toys they are very much real and in the last count Russia had the biggest bomb in her arsenal.
Furthermore, Putin is no schoolboy in the schoolyard!
The fact that twenty first century has been a so far a century of warfare by the neocon and their crazed lunatic mentors the zionist supremacists, and the world is not longer prepared to put up with such and aggressive warmongers somehow is being portrayed as;”Putin wants attention”!
Simple fact is, Putin unlike the rest of the threats Saddam and his WMD, Qaddafi Hitler et al, does have the hardware and can kick ass to the kingdom come and most certainly has got the attention of the thugs, the bullies!
The fact that your ilk still has not registered is incapable of comprehension, is your problem!
I think ‘they’ like to rub our noses in it. The rank hypocrisy of this brutal dictatorship is truly breathtaking. Where there’s terrorism there’s Saudi citizens and money, where there’s human right violations there’s the Saudi Arabian government. Where there’s Yemen there’s Saudi’s murderous illegal invasion.
These 14 century barbarians shouldn’t be able to get away with bribing the planet into pretending they are a legitimate state. Never a word of condemnation from the fawning BBC.
Saudis announce Islamic anti-terrorism coalition
Saudi Arabia has said 34 mainly Islamic nations have joined a new military alliance to fight terrorism.
A joint operations centre is to be established in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media reported.
Countries from Asia, Africa and the Arab world are involved in the alliance but Saudi Arabia’s main regional rival Iran is not.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35099318
Anger after Saudi Arabia ‘chosen to head key UN human rights panel’
Wife of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi says move amounts to “a green light to flog him”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anger-after-saudi-arabia-chosen-to-head-key-un-human-rights-panel-10509716.html
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/mole-hunters-police-scotland-been-7002687
the cops were half-heartedly looking for a murderer, or full-heartedly for the Police mole who updated the snooze-papers, allegedly, allegedly etc
LIFT-OFF! Major Tim Peake races into orbit
https://twitter.com/esaoperations
Rare species spotted on the streets of Saudi Arabia, people are stunned
You’ve guessed it.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=084_1450021376#DpBPGYlpJVs7pFpp.99
This was caused by excess renewable power generation – all of which was paid prevailing Feed in Tariff rates. The adverse costs of the Dutch power cut was not borne by those who caused the problem, but rather was smeared over the entire economy.
Obviously it wasn’t caused by the established conventional suppliers failing to respond to the fact that their unsustainable product was slightly less dominant than it had been, and cutting their supply accordingly… one thing to remember is that the conventional producers are lobbying very strongly against FIT’s. Another is that SOME people are prepared to pay for not losing their coastline.
In such circumstances the operators of conventional plant are paid zero but the operators of plant subject to the feed in tariff still get paid the subsidy.
Poor things. And in the UK, producers over 5MW are specifically excluded from FIT, no matter how they produce it – to prevent big operators from paying their shareholders even more of your quarterly bill. Boo bloody hoo.
SUMMARY OF ISRAELI ATROCITIES
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In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property
Israeli Army theft and vandalism raids on homes, charity offices and infirmary
Israeli soldiers terrorise 3 children aged 10 to 13 for several hours
Israeli soldiers raid shop and plunder scientific equipment
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 9 towns and villages
3 attacks (although, technically, there were no Israeli ceasefire violations, 58 Gaza residents were wounded by Israeli crowd-control weapons,
including rubber-coated steel bullets)
13 raids including home invasions
3 dead – 127 injured – 1 abducted – economic sabotage
17 taken prisoner – 9 detained –*119 restrictions of movement
Home invasions: dawn, Safarin – 18:00, Tulkarem – 03:30, Tulkarem – 01:25, Bethlehem – 02:10-04:45, al-Thahiriya.
Peace disruption raids: 01:40, Abu Dis – 02:15-04:15, Ramallah – 17:15, Hablah – midnight, Hablah – 23:40-00:55, Osirin – 01:30, al-Khadr – dawn, the Aida refugee camp – 00:40-04:45, al-Bureij.
Palestinian missile attacks: none.
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All the genocidal details here:
http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3023&Itemid=44
Fred,
LPG products sell at prices based on Brent while LNG is tied to natural gas prices plus transport/handling costs. The cost per unit energy of lpg is historically so high that we don’t burn it in power stations just as we don’t nowadays burn oil for power because natural gas is cheaper. Although technically UK gas fired stations could be converted to run on lpg we do not currently have the infrastructure in place to do so even if price didn’t rule it out in the first place.
The US oil and gas industry has preferentially fracked for “wet gas” with lots of condensate and lpg because the gas produced was otherwise uneconomic. At the current oil price this liquid production is also loss making.
US “all liquids” production is projected to fall next year by the EIA.
Ba´al Zevul – Integrated electricity systems are complex and dynamic. It takes time to adjust the output of thermal plants to match either changes in demand or a material change in the output of sporadic and non despatchable renewable generation.
If you have too much non firm power on the system you will get power cuts. If you do not incentivise conventional plant people will not build them and you will get power cuts.
Who ends up with all the money from this subsidy regime? Answer cash rich homeowners who put a few solar panels on their roofs, large corporations who get a risk free investment but a risk adjusted return, and Wall Street investment banks who securitise the income stream and then buy up local distribution networks.
If people want to subsidise the rich and send money to JP Morgan then they could go right ahead and just post a cheque. The fact that they do not want to do this explains why all the smoke and mirrors are necessary with regard to renewable energy.
Sixer
“Charity giving should feel good, not leave you with an uncomfortable feeling that you are helping to formalise the social ill that you are trying to ameliorate with your donation.”
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I mzy be mis-reading you, Sixer, but that sounds a little bit like what the French call “la politique du pire”.
I reminds me a little – and again I may be wrong – of those who won’t do their bit to help because they feel that to do so somehow validates the policies that have made that help necessary/desirable and that one should therefore not help in the hope or expectation that the problem will worsen and become so acute that the authorities will be forced to change certain policies.
Who ends up with all the money from this subsidy regime? Answer cash rich homeowners who put a few solar panels on their roofs, large corporations who get a risk free investment but a risk adjusted return, and Wall Street investment banks who securitise the income stream and then buy up local distribution networks.
If people want to subsidise the rich and send money to JP Morgan then they could go right ahead and just post a cheque. The fact that they do not want to do this explains why all the smoke and mirrors are necessary with regard to renewable energy.
That’s your way of looking at it. However as even at today’s prices it takes > 7 years to recoup the capital investment on solar, and as only a moderately large business, even with subsidy, is going to take a punt on a biofuel local plant (though plenty have in Europe), it’s hard to see how the transition is going to be any more free of the banks than the megacorps. It’s not as if Megagen Global is doing you any favours either. Take a look at the Danish and German expriences to see what the UK is lagging badly behind.
Actually, I think it’s rather a good idea to make sustainable energy attractive to the financiers. Who else is in any position to do anything practical about climate change? If you really want to squeeze the bastards, get out of debt, insulate your house, buy a woodburner, stop being the only person in your car and stop buying stuff you don’t need (etc). Then get on with your moral crusade.
Node, thank you for posting an update of the Israeli Atrocities which the biased BBC doesn’t really want us to know about.
Keep up the good work.
@Squonk
If Russia were to stop gas supplies to Europe, which is how the discussion arose, then Europe will just buy their gas elsewhere. Russia supplies 38% of Europe’s gas which could be shipped in in liquid form either natural from the Middle East or LPG from America.
It wouldn’t devastate the American economy as was stated it would probably give it a boost. It would however have detrimental effects on the Russian economy. Russia can’t use gas to hold Europe to ransom, we could manage without them.
RoS:
As for that site you mention Glenn, it had interesting info, but you can check out the about if you want here:
xxx.thereligionofpeace.co/pages/faq.htm.xxx
[Address of that hate-site spoiled deliberately, to foil back-references for search engines]
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This is the sort of credulity that really staggers me.
In an earlier “argument”, if it can actually be elevated to such a term, you referred me to a page from the website of the very industry that promotes Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), in order to *prove* it was all legitimate, genuine science, and just bang-solid no-kidding, full-scale working technology. Case closed!
Now, you refer us to a page from this hate-site itself, which explains to your satisfaction that they are definitely on the up-and-up.
Without attempting being snide here, I have to ask you a genuine question, RoS.
Do you ever actually consider your sources, or go beyond the first search result? Do you think the first result must be the truth? May I kindly suggest you look at your reference from other sources, try rightwingwatch, or sourcewatch, or SOMETHING – but for Christ’s sake, don’t just take these organisations with such obvious vested interests at their word!
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Careful with Anon1, RoS – he’s already humping your leg at every opportunity, it’ll get much worse if you
keep encouraging himdon’t actively discourage him. And if he’s really starting to whine, wagging his tail furiously, and starting to annoy everyone generally, do take him out for a walk – would you please?*—-
* Thanks Ba’al
Habbabkuk (Defend Reason, Combat Cant) 12:59 pm
“I mzy be mis-reading you, Sixer, but that sounds a little bit like what the French call “la politique du pire”.
I reminds me a little – and again I may be wrong – of those who won’t do their bit to help because they feel that to do so somehow validates the policies that have made that help necessary/desirable and that one should therefore not help in the hope or expectation that the problem will worsen and become so acute that the authorities will be forced to change certain policies.”
Um… no, I honestly don’t think so. That would seem a superficial reading of my post, since I’ve now said twice that I donate to UK food poverty charitable initiatives. It’s not as though there is a paucity of choices. I have a set amount of money to donate (10% of disposable income for clarity) and my first priority is to establish which causes I think are most important to donate to. My second is to find the best fit for my views and principle from the competing sector charities or initiatives to give the money to. In terms of UK poverty, I choose to donate to no-strings-attached local endeavours. I’m not sure how you could describe that as politique du pire. My other priorities for donation this year have been UK domestic violence, the refugee crisis, and developing world disease eradication. I’ve similarly worked out the best fit for my beliefs and opinions from the competing charities in these areas.
You can give to TT if you like. Good on you if you do. But I think there are better places to donate my food poverty pounds.
Bá´al Zevul – What is it about Germany that you want to look at? Could it be German plans to construct 26 new coal plants, necessary to plug the gap between intermittent renewable production and the German need for continious on demand electricity.
If it takes 7 years to recoup Capital Investment then that is equivalent to a risk free rate of return of just under 10.5%. It is risk free because the subsidy is guaranteed by the government and because there is substantially no technical or operational risk.
30 year T bill rates (normally used as a standard proxy for a risk free rate of return are about 3%)
Please explain why UK electricity consumers are required to pay over 300% more than the standard risk free measure.
Fred – I think you may run into capacity constraints if you try to replace Russian piped gas with LNG.
You will also run into economic problems if you start replacing natural gas with LPG. In addition to wood my fire will burn $20 notes – however I tend not to burn $20 notes.
A lot of countries not only get gas from Russia they also get gas transit fees. Fees which would disappear of there was no gas transiting their countries.
In the longer term Russia can go east. It is less than clear where Europe goes as Russia has 26% of global gas reserves and if you add in Iran and Turkmenistan then the figure rises to 53% of global gas reserves.
If it takes 7 years to recoup Capital Investment then that is equivalent to a risk free rate of return of just under 10.5%. It is risk free because the subsidy is guaranteed by the government and because there is substantially no technical or operational risk.
So that’s a really attractive deal. But it wouldn’t be without soem government input. Now how do you think matured Treasury bills are paid for? Actual value? Think again.
Admit it, you’re working for EXXON.
“Scotland has never been occupied. The union in 1707 was a political union the Scots had long been trying for, a union which gave them access to English trading areas. Scotland tried for union in 1607 and 1670 but both times it was rejected by the House of Commons and an another attempt rejected by the House of Lords in 1695 then Scotland’s attempts for union were turned down by the House of Commons in 1700.”
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Yes Fred you are correct, although Cromwell came close, winning the battles of Dunbar and Inverkeithing, circa, 1650-1.
Of course Tacitus, scribe and son-in-law to Roman governor of Caledonia, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, claimed the Roman legions routed Calgacus and his army at the battles of Mons Grampus, historians have questioned the nepotistic accounts of the battle in 83AD-84AD, if it took place at all.
The there was the later Caledonian campaign by Roman emperor Septimius Severus in 208AD-210AD, in which emperor Severus brought over 40,000 soldiers to these shores, possibly the largest army ever to land on mainland Britain.
Severus never encountered a stand up army to fight instead his great force of men were caught up in hit and run sporadic guerilla warefare.
The latter two examples of course occured before Scotland became a nation around 843AD.
An financial analyst on the 07:15am spot on the Biased BBC R4 flagsh!t Toady programme yesterday, said
didn’t anyone notice at the Save the Hollande/planet meeting/agreement panjandrum that all the finances of the 1.5degC agreement only work-out with Krude Oyl at $60 to $80 dollars per barril
Strangely, sometimes the financial beeb news is just a tadge less biased than their other gurgitations.
Perhaps the current black-stuff dip is just a blip-dip, who knows?
“Scandinavian Scotland refers to the period from the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a smaller extent other Scandinavians, and their descendents colonised parts of what is now modern Scotland. Viking influence in the area commenced in the late 8th century, and hostility between the Scandinavian Earls of Orkney and the emerging thalassocracy of the Kingdom of the Isles, the rulers of Ireland, Dál Riata and Alba, and intervention by the crown of Norway were recurring themes.”
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Scotland
And the recklessly biased beeb would *never* quote Yahya
General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that “17 regional and trans-regional intelligence services affiliated to the Arab and western states” are running operations “in support of ethnic separatist groups to sow discord among the local people” in Khuzestan.
He said “the Arab and European secret services are supporting separatist groups with financial and political backups” to stir unrest through fomenting sectarian strife in the bordering [oil-rich] province.
(they go on to say how this Intel was obtained by reverse infiltration)
“In an earlier “argument”, if it can actually be elevated to such a term, you referred me to a page from the website of the very industry that promotes Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), in order to *prove* it was all legitimate, genuine science, and just bang-solid no-kidding, full-scale working technology. Case closed!”
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Sounds like you’ve been up all night Glenn back scanning comments, hoping to find a morsel of comfort, that would allow you to vent your spleen.
You mean this site Glenn, that says.
How much carbon dioxide can be captured through CCS?
CCS can capture 90% of carbon dioxide emissions from power generation and the production of steel and cement. On a typical (900MW) coal fired power plant with CCS, this means that the emission of 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide can be avoided each year – the equivalent of taking over 2 million cars off the road.
How much experience does industry have in capturing carbon dioxide?
CCS plants are operational today. There are currently 4 operational commercial-scale CCS plants globally:
Sleipner is in the North Sea, about 160 miles west of Stavanger, Norway: operational since 1996 and injecting over 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually
Weyburn is in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada: operational since 2005 and injecting 26 million tonnes over the lifetime of the project.
In Salah is in central Algeria: operational since 2004 and injecting over 1 millions tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
The Snøvit plant in northern Norway: operational since 2008 and, at full production, the plant has a capture and storage capacity of 700,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
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As for the other site, that’s your opinion I found some of the info interesting, as would others, I imagine, if you want to cry in your lentils as Anon1 said that’s up to you.
I’ll criticse both sides as I see it, whether it be Western or Islamic activities.
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“Careful with Anon1, RoS – he’s already humping your leg at every opportunity, it’ll get much worse if you keep encouraging him don’t actively discourage him. And if he’s really starting to whine, wagging his tail furiously, and starting to annoy everyone generally, do take him out for a walk – would you please?”
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Re the above, I used to think the establishment boys in here, were bitchy, it would appear I was wrong going by the liberal bleeding heart comment above, that comment could’ve come straight out of a women’s toilet in a bingo hall.
RoS: “Sounds like you’ve been up all night Glenn back scanning comments, hoping to find a morsel of comfort, that would allow you to vent your spleen.”
Err… no, sorry to disappoint you. I have a memory, and use it.
You don’t get it though, do you? You’re simply quoting from an industry statement. You need independent sources for any credibility.
Carbon Capture and Storage Association
6th Floor
10 Dean Farrar Street
London SW1H 0DX
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3031 8750
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7222 4253
email: [email protected]
Right Glenn there go let me know how you get on, or are you all talk and no action?
Toddlers Fleeing Bombings in Syria.. School hit children dead –
Airstrikes in Syria Kill Dozens Including Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGH17lBAM8
Harvard Medical School teams conducted a study that seemed to show that being a head of state shortens ones life expectancy.
One wonders if HRH droopy chops and Robert Mugabe are the exception to the rule.
“Fred – I think you may run into capacity constraints if you try to replace Russian piped gas with LNG.
You will also run into economic problems if you start replacing natural gas with LPG. In addition to wood my fire will burn $20 notes – however I tend not to burn $20 notes.”
Cost isn’t everything, NG produces more greenhouse gasses than LPG.
Where I live people in the towns use LNG through pipes and people in rural areas have LPG tanks outside their houses. Power cost varies across the range greatly, offshore wind costs more than nuclear costs more than coal but they use all three. The 30% difference per BTU between NG and LPG wouldn’t be a disaster. Much of the infrastructure needed is already in place, Britain who uses no Russian gas at all could provide over 20% of their gas requirements from imported LNG. Europe wouldn’t have to supply all their gas needs, just the portion they get from Russia.
Russia cutting off Europe’s gas would hurt Russia more than it hurt Europe.