Planning ahead: It’s time to start working on those New Year’s resolutions.
Something to ponder, from the ever-talented Mr. Ridley: Russia spent billions helping the anti-fracking campaigns in Western countries. The murderous Vladimir Putin is a closeted friend of the Earth!
The wave of noisy protests against shale gas in Lancashire and Yorkshire in recent years looked like a grassroots movement. It was anything but.
It was peopled by a middle class rent-a-crowd, ramped up by misleading scare stories from Friends of the Earth, amplified by the BBC and The Guardian, funded by wealthy hedge-fund billionaires and welcomed by incumbent energy firms worried by the prospect of new competition for renewables, nuclear or offshore gas.
All this suited Vladimir Putin’s regime, because banning shale kept the gas underground and left us more dependent on Russia for our energy supplies.
Nearing two years after those words were written, our Western elites still cling bitterly to their wind towers and solar panels, their battery cars…
Afternoon, all. I've made 100 cookies, with a little assistance from Daughter D. My husband has a cookie-exchange event at the office tomorrow. He had told us about it some time back, but then we all forgot.
Good morning. I found some baby manuls: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86uKvmosoFM