Energy and Pollution
Electricity generation to be clean and safe. This simple principle and will determine policy.
Gas, coal and biomass power stations to have exhaust filters and scrubbers. These will prevent any poisonous gasses from entering the atmosphere, apart from water and CO2. It will be an offense to burn wood and other fuels that emit carbon particulates and other pollutants.
The air needs to be treated like the rivers. It is not a dumping ground for waste and pollution. We breathe it and live in it. So do the animals and plants.
Other clean technologies to be funded via FITS or generation payments, so that solar, wind, tidal, river flow etc will proliferate.
Space heating is about generating the heat lost by the building. Installation of high levels of insulation, heat recover ventilation, passive solar and air tight buildings will be funded as part of the infrastructure project. see Economy and Trade. These measures will mean that virtually no space heating is necessary. Body heat and cooking will provide most of the heat. Green gas including hydrogen is one of the cleanest fuels for heating. Any polluting fuels will need scrubbers on the exhaust. This will make them less efficient and green gas more attractive.
Water heating by solar thermal will be encouraged with grants and gas heating as back up.
Nuclear power is great in principle. We use the sun for almost all our energy, that's a huge nuclear reactor. Nuclear power stations on earth must be shown to be safe and value for money.
Pollution from ships and other transport and indirect manufacturing from abroad will be taxed appropriately. The level of tax will be sufficient so as to make zero pollution technologies more attractive. Some pollution tax will be used to clean up the mess, where possible.
Profit making utility companies make little sense. People don't want choice, they want the lowest prices. Removing profit and allowing only non-profit energy companies will mean even lower prices. Private monopolies like the water companies and distribution companies make even less sense, they will be nationalised. or run by a non-profit company accountable to its users.
British Summer Time
Make BST all year round, in line with Europe i.e. GMT + 1 hour.
It means less energy use and less road collisions and more pleasant with lighter evenings in the winter.
The main objection is from Scotland, we would support them using GMT or whatever time zone they chose.
Global Warming
Our policies address low energy use and reduced or zero pollution. Global warming does not become the driving force behind policies. If it does, there would be a proliferation of private electric cars, with power generated renewably. Those cars will still kill and injure us.
Using simple logic and proven facts our policies make sense whether or not global warming is happening. If it is, we have the most radical and the safest least polluting policies of any party in the UK. See policy on Climate Change.
Gas, coal and biomass power stations to have exhaust filters and scrubbers. These will prevent any poisonous gasses from entering the atmosphere, apart from water and CO2. It will be an offense to burn wood and other fuels that emit carbon particulates and other pollutants.
The air needs to be treated like the rivers. It is not a dumping ground for waste and pollution. We breathe it and live in it. So do the animals and plants.
Other clean technologies to be funded via FITS or generation payments, so that solar, wind, tidal, river flow etc will proliferate.
Space heating is about generating the heat lost by the building. Installation of high levels of insulation, heat recover ventilation, passive solar and air tight buildings will be funded as part of the infrastructure project. see Economy and Trade. These measures will mean that virtually no space heating is necessary. Body heat and cooking will provide most of the heat. Green gas including hydrogen is one of the cleanest fuels for heating. Any polluting fuels will need scrubbers on the exhaust. This will make them less efficient and green gas more attractive.
Water heating by solar thermal will be encouraged with grants and gas heating as back up.
Nuclear power is great in principle. We use the sun for almost all our energy, that's a huge nuclear reactor. Nuclear power stations on earth must be shown to be safe and value for money.
Pollution from ships and other transport and indirect manufacturing from abroad will be taxed appropriately. The level of tax will be sufficient so as to make zero pollution technologies more attractive. Some pollution tax will be used to clean up the mess, where possible.
Profit making utility companies make little sense. People don't want choice, they want the lowest prices. Removing profit and allowing only non-profit energy companies will mean even lower prices. Private monopolies like the water companies and distribution companies make even less sense, they will be nationalised. or run by a non-profit company accountable to its users.
British Summer Time
Make BST all year round, in line with Europe i.e. GMT + 1 hour.
It means less energy use and less road collisions and more pleasant with lighter evenings in the winter.
The main objection is from Scotland, we would support them using GMT or whatever time zone they chose.
Global Warming
Our policies address low energy use and reduced or zero pollution. Global warming does not become the driving force behind policies. If it does, there would be a proliferation of private electric cars, with power generated renewably. Those cars will still kill and injure us.
Using simple logic and proven facts our policies make sense whether or not global warming is happening. If it is, we have the most radical and the safest least polluting policies of any party in the UK. See policy on Climate Change.