Feb
£60m in carbon credits for UK government buildings
While pensioners in the UK are burning books to keep from freezing their global-warmed asses off this winter, British taxpayers are footing a £60m bill to keep civil servants warm and cozy in their government offices. Is this for new heating systems? To pay for more energy? No, the heat is already there. But to be politically green, the taxpayer money is going to Asian countries to purchase carbon credits, where companies questionably have reduced their carbon footprint. But don’t worry, it’s not all going to Asia–Barclays, and J P Morgan are skimming £9m as commissions for handling the transaction.
The Telegraph reported:
One could not want a better vignette of the gulf that has opened up between our “political class” and the rest of us than a bizarre little item which emerged last week on an obscure part of the European Commission’s website. The British Government, as revealed by the EU’s Official Journal, has allocated £60 million of taxpayers’ money to be spent on buying carbon credits from the Third World for the use of government buildings and other official purposes – so that our civil servants can continue to benefit from the CO2 emissions needed to keep their offices warm and lit.
The Government has contracted to buy these credits, mainly available from China and India, through 10 British and foreign companies, including Barclays Bank and a branch of J P Morgan rather oddly situated in a back street in Oxford.
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Complete unmitigated madness. It’s as if the whole purpose of Carbon Trading and Carbon Offsetting is actually designed to destroy the planet.
Carbon Credits don’t stop pollution… they just make it more expensive. And its Joe Public who gets whammied with the bottom line.
Well, some things never change. “Progressive” ideology wants the rest of the world to live like troglodytes while the enlightened ones get to live like pampered lap dogs. The main irony is that these are some of the same people who ascribe to Socialism (AKA Communism Lite) & used to bitch & complain about the bourgeois when they were young.
No wonder Brown cries in public,China and most asian countries are laughing their socks off ,while they “storm ahead with CO2 production” poor daft Britain under the lunatic [does he know what he is doing] Brown ,showers money over them [money he hasn't earned,and we haven't got] .
Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Brown bullies “us”,while Britannia sinks with only bankers in the lifeboats.
Can Gordon Clown just piss off and make sure to turn off the lights, what a joke this idiot has turned out to be.
I was researching something else and came across another example of how Carbon Trading is like a poison spreading through society at all levels.
I also have a personal example of my local council telling me a surveyor was coming to MY house to perform a survey, one part of which included an ‘energy survey’.
Now I don’t like to get hysterical, but my resentment about the Energy Police inviting themselves on to my property makes my blood boil. Watch out America – this is coming your way.
Any such person knocking on my door will get his own personal carbon footprint of my boot on his butt.