Rewards for failure continue at the top of industry
Alex Hern examines the common link between the appalling bad RBS quarter, and the appallingly good Centrica one: Rewards for failure.
Energy
Shale gas fantasists and wind sceptics need to get real
Guy Shrubsole shows the Spectator how to do real environmental journalism. Hint: It’s not the way they do it.
FoE: Huhne’s successor “must stand firm against Osborne’s anti-green agenda”
Chris Huhne resigned today as energy and climate change secretary to fight charges he transferred speeding points to his then wife Vicky Price in 2003.
Huhne must do more than talk to help the poor this winter
Charlie Samuda runs through the problems with the coalition’s cutting of the “warm front” program, which helped the poorest in society heat their homes.
Christmas is coming and EDF is getting fat
Andy Atkins details Friends of the Earth’s plans to take on EDF’s massive profits off the back of public cash.
We need a new approach to tackling fuel poverty
IPPR’s Matthew Lockwood argues fuel poverty needs to be tackled with well targeted, well funded measures – unlike those currently in use.
Let’s end the tyranny of the big six energy companies
Andy Atkins calls on readers to join Friends of the Earth’s “Final Demand” campaign, and explains why the ‘Big Six’ energy companies need their dominance ended.
Outrage at 733 per cent rise in energy companies’ profits
There was anger today at the news this morning that energy companies’ profits had soared eight-fold from £15 to £125 per customer per year, reports Shamik Das.
Huhne’s tough talk on energy companies exactly what we need
Chris Huhne today set out some important directions of travel for climate change policy over the course of this parliament.
Shale gas is not the answer to our energy problems – and here’s why
Shale gas is not the answer to our energy problems – and it could be a fracking disaster, writes Guy Shrubsole.