Energy

This category covers all energy generation and usage issues.

Climate science denial
Who does he work for?

Does Craig Mackinlay have your interests at heart. Not where they conflict with the fossil fuel industry.

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Craig's Business Interests
Join us and hold Craig Mackinlay to account

South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay is an outspoken supporter of the fossil fuel industry. But he's not so vocal on the costs of not tackling climate change – the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced.

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Climate science denial
Net Zero critics funded by Big Oil

Craig's chums Net Zero Watch receive more than $800,000 from major oil supporters and climate denial groups.

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Energy
Nuclear is not the answer

Nuclear is expensive, unreliable and dangerous, and decommissioning costs continue to spiral upwards. Don't go there!

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Climate science denial
Mackinlay targeted in 'cost-of-greed' protest

The only time South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay expresses concern for the poor is when he's opposing climate action that might impact fossil-fuel interests. Meanwhile, both his voting record and his public pronouncements suggests that he's happy that the two inter-related crises of poverty and climate are left to play out. It's a cost-of-greed crisis […]

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Climate science denial
Idiocy trumps science

Who would you trust to inform you about climate change? A climate scientist or someone with a PhD in English? Net Zero Watch does not have a single climate scientist on its board. Isn't that strange? Scary clowns at work!

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Energy
Net Zero Watch Report Damned

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has called the latest Net Zero Watch report “an incoherent jumble of climate denialism, fake news and truth-twisting”.

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Energy
Not fracking, again?

Craig's latest splurge in the Isle of Thanet News bigs up Britain's dilatory response to the Ukraine crisis – but it is, in fact, yet another advertorial for fracking

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Counter Arguments
It's not all Putin's fault

It isn’t all Putin’s fault. It's the fault of the government of which Craig is a member. They have failed to invest heavily into green energies, have cancelled plans to insulate homes and ensure high insulation standards for new-builds, and have continued to subsidise fossil fuels at colossal levels.

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Energy
More fracking madness

CM's latest outburst on the appalling Ukrainian situation is to use it as a pretext to open up new fossil fuel exploitation, including fracking, which has been roundly condemned.

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