Energy price cap

[GWYNFIL]

1 hour ago, htb said:

Similar here, our monthly payment was £70, now down to £25 till March.

I can beat that was 83. in a bit of credit. 60 monthly credit from joe public and me. new dd £6.15 till march the mind boggles

[Ty Korrigan]

12 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

House itself is rendered which makes me wonder what the brickwork beneath is like.

 

Which is why they render, cheap porous block work.

Based on what I see in France...

   Stuart

 

Edited October 2, 2022 by Ty Korrigan

[Ty Korrigan]

On the French news, small businesses reliant on electricity and gas are closing upon the advice of their accountants, rather than get into debt.

I suspect that many of these were marginally profitable anyway.

Better to close than to run up debts to and risk losing your home though recent legislation has offered better protection against such scenarios.

Boulangeries and laundries especially vulnerable it seems.

 

Enquiries are lighter than last year, a sign that people are thinking ahead perhaps?

   Stuart

[Johnsond]

Drax: UK power station owner cuts down primary forests in Canada

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The owner of the UK's biggest power station, Drax, is cutting down key forests in Canada.

If you want to see pure madness and insanity at work the whole green ticket attached to the burning of wood pellets is it, mind you with £6 billion of subsidies alone it certainly is profitable.  Panorama would be well advised to take a look at UK renewables as currently it’s nothing more than a massive cash cow for predominantly overseas firms, which we the taxpayers are funding, value for money it is certainly not. 

Edited October 3, 2022 by Johnsond

[GarethM]

It's not exactly a secret, they have a huge drax owned and operated industry in the USA turning wood into wood pellets, shipping them to I think Gateshead.

 

They then get off loaded from the drax owned boat, onto huge drax trains and shipped to the power station, where they are ground into powder and then burned.

 

All whilst sitting on a coal seams, if I remember right one boat is like three days worth of wood pellets.

Edited October 3, 2022 by GarethM

[Johnsond]

22 minutes ago, GarethM said:

It's not exactly a secret, they have a huge drax owned and operated industry in the USA turning wood into wood pellets, shipping them to I think Gateshead.

 

They then get off loaded from the drax owned boat, onto huge drax trains and shipped to the power station, where they are ground into powder and then burned.

 

All whilst sitting on a coal seams, if I remember right one boat is like three days worth of wood pellets.

Nope no secret at all, Lynemouth power station (foreign owned of course) is the one I think you are referring too. Converted from coal and as you say sitting in top of millions of tons of recoverable reserves. The drive to  green net zero utopia has literally turned into a cash cow for those involved. What needs bringing to the gullible masses attention is what’s actually going on. 

[GarethM]

No, definitely Drax. But like a lot of older power stations they were built on or right next to coal fields with train line access.

 

It's scandalous really, same with these waste recovery places, we shouldn't need to bury waste unless it's biodegradable.

 

Personally I say build the waste recovery sites, open up every closed public tip and recycle and then burn everything else.

 

 

Edited October 3, 2022 by GarethM

[Johnsond]

20 minutes ago, GarethM said:

No, definitely Drax. But like a lot of older power stations they were built on or right next to coal fields with train line access.

 

It's scandalous really, same with these waste recovery places, we shouldn't need to bury waste unless it's biodegradable.

 

Personally I say build the waste recovery sites, open up every closed public tip and recycle and then burn everything else.

 

 

Lynemouth is fed by rail too, not sure where Drax is supplied from. 

 

[GarethM]

It wouldn't be a surprise if it's USA or Australian coal.

[Puffingbilly413]

21 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

On the French news, small businesses reliant on electricity and gas are closing upon the advice of their accountants, rather than get into debt.

I suspect that many of these were marginally profitable anyway.

Better to close than to run up debts to and risk losing your home though recent legislation has offered better protection against such scenarios.

Boulangeries and laundries especially vulnerable it seems.

 

Enquiries are lighter than last year, a sign that people are thinking ahead perhaps?

   Stuart

Need to persuage your local boulanger/ère to start burning wood again then you can sell it to them and keep them running in the process.  Not that the French need much to provoke a decent protest, but I imagine the thought of foregoing the morning pain-au-chocolat or a nice ficelle will do more to bring a government down than a chancellor causing mortgage chaos.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Puffingbilly413
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