Green Lawfare Is Destroying British Jobs
by Ben Pile 16 September 2024 9:00 AM
Last week, the U.K. took two new plunges towards purging its industrial wealth-creating capacity. On Thursday, Petroineos confirmed its plans to close the Grangemouth oil refinery. Then, on Friday, and after years of wrangling, the High Court ruled that the Whitehaven coal mine could not go ahead. The latter is more than mere negligence from the Net Zero fanatics running the country, who seem more interested in wind farms and clubbing in Ibiza than oil refineries; this is another expression of green spite.
The Whitehaven coal mine project has long been the subject of green lawfare. The hearing ultimately reached a conclusion because the new Government, in the form of Angela Rayner, decided not to continue the previous Government’s commitment to the project. Though the project to produce coal for steel production has support in an area that has a need for the jobs, has willing private investors backing it, has a domestic and international market, and had, most controversially, government backing, it was Green Blob funding of opposition organisations and legal challenges to planning decisions that took control away from democratically elected politicians in a series of hearings. The plan was incompatible with the Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA), found the judge, Justice Holgate, according to the Guardian. This echoes the point made by Peter Lilley when the legislation was being debated in Parliament (such as it was), that “the sole effect of enshrining the targets in statute will be that the Government’s policies will be open to judicial review”.
“The idea that judges should decide on policies costing billions of pounds, without being accountable to the electorate for the billions that they might decide need to be incurred, fills me with foreboding,” said Lilley.
But Blob-funded lawfare is now only half the story. The other half is now economic strangulation.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/09/16/green-lawfare-is-destroying-british-jobs/
