Apr

Petition to free the Attorney General … from his official duties

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Praguetory has a petition up on the Downing Street website calling for Lord Goldsmith to do the
honourable thing over the cash-for-peerages affair.

“We the undersigned
petition the Prime Minister to require that the Attorney General be relieved of
his duties in respect of the case passed to the Crown Prosecution Service on Friday 20 April
2007 following the
Metropolitan Police's investigation into alleged breaches of the Honours
(Prevention Of Abuses Act) 1925.”

View or sign the petition here »

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Daily Pundit.

NuLab (National Socialists)
- Destroying Britain from the inside out.

Petition to free the Attorney General … from his official duties

IanPJ Main Page Add you comment

Praguetory has a petition up on the Downing Street website calling for Lord Goldsmith to do the
honourable thing over the cash-for-peerages affair.

“We the undersigned
petition the Prime Minister to require that the Attorney General be relieved of
his duties in respect of the case passed to the Crown Prosecution Service on Friday 20 April
2007 following the
Metropolitan Police's investigation into alleged breaches of the Honours
(Prevention Of Abuses Act) 1925.”

View or sign the petition here »

HatTip The UK
Daily Pundit.

NuLab (National Socialists)
- Destroying Britain from the inside out.

The Carbon Credits scam

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We said last
month
that Carbon Credits were a scam, promoted by Al Gore and his discredited film,
now its official. The EU carbon credits scam is out.

The FT
reports that the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been discredited for
giving companies so many carbon credits – effectively permits to pollute – that
no overall reduction in emissions took place.

Many
British companies followed official advice, but were persuaded to pay high
prices for environmentally worthless carbon credits as a result.

John
Henley, chief executive of MyCarbonWorld, which offered EU phase one permits
for sale at £6.40 per tonne, told the FT: “It’s not a simple case of a gross
margin there. There’s obviously set-up costs, admin costs, dealing costs,
wholesale costs.”

Reflecting
the surplus in ETS permits, the wholesale market price has plunged to less than
€0.50 (£0.34) per tonne. But many intermediaries selling phase one ETS permits
on to companies and consumers charge much more.

Lord
Turner, the former CBI director-general and the man who headed the government’s
Pensions Commission, was one of those who bought the offsets recommended by
Defra, and has now obviously lost money. He told the FT: “The price was
considerably higher [than today].”

The Carbon
Credits scam is about making a market in trading credits, not about cleaning
up, not about reducing emissions, nothing to do with the environment,
everything to do with making money.

Ineos Fluor
was paid £43m of taxpayers money after ICI, the previous owner of its Cheshire works, had installed an incinerator
for £6m in 1999 to reduce emissions. The company told the FT it had spent about
half the government money it received on clean-up technology.

Stop the Scam now, stop Defra using taxpayers
money on Al Gore’s Scam.

The Carbon Credits scam