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Doug Parr

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    Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social

    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire

    It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social‬

    www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...

    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in t...

    Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor

    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in t...
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    Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social

    The Trump Effect

    Wind power investment in US during first half of 2025 hits lowest point since before 2015

    So where does that money go?

    Wind power investment in Europe in same period reaches record high, by some way

    www.ft.com/content/2e3e...

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    Tbf that was me, not FT, trying to pithily contrast nukes with wind & storage, solar & storage

    I assume the CCGT includes a carbon price but I agree that's not the same

    (also FWIW I don't think gas & CCS will be £100/MWh - did you see quote by Ben Houchen they were negotiating around £350/MWh?)

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    Contrast media near-silence on the inflated costs of Sizewell C with the hyperventilating already taking place at the prospect of offshore wind being £100/MWh - it actually might be more like £80/MWh, the auction will discover

    Sizewell C is £286/MWh

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    Former head of EDF says the EPR nuclear reactor - the one EDF is building at Hinkley & Sizewell - is “phenomenally complex”, “almost unbuildable”

    Here's how costs of Sizewell compares with other reliable low carbon power

    Why did UK govt go ahead with this boondoggle?

    www.ft.com/content/ee89...

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