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PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
90% of countries in the world run their water in public ownership
Even here in the UK, Scotland's water is in public ownership - and they pay less for their water, invest more in their infrastructure, and pay £0 in dividends
We are not asking for too much. We want what Scotland has.
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
“If Hinkley C had been completed, on schedule and within budget, we would still be paying them twice as much for electricity as for onshore wind, and a new gas plant would produce electricity at even higher cost than Hinkley. It is a myth that gas is cheaper than renewables. One big gas price spike from a war or other major disruption costs Britain more than the entire Net Zero project. We saw the economic risk of dependence on fossil fuels when the wars in Ukraine and Iran sent energy bills skyrocketing. When a political party that receives lots of fossil fuel money says you should switch from the cheapest electricity sources to the most expensive, exercise caution. When they claim huge overall savings, best wait until some independent experts have a look before you start celebrating the mathematical miracle.”
greenpeace.org.uk/press-cent…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Great column. Next person to interview Farage or Tice should ask if they still stand by their comments that Co2 isn't a pollutant and man-made climate change isn't happening thetimes.com/comment/columni…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
As wildfires continue to burn, Shell today announced £7.4 bn in obscene profits.
So we delivered your open letter to @Miatsf calling on her to #StopRosebank the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field.
The reality of new oil & gas= our communities pay, Big oil profits.
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Scottish Power post £1.6bn in profits for the first half of this year ALONE
Why aren't they paying more tax on this profit?
Will the new government pander to industry lobbyists and slash the windfall tax further, or cut profits to bring down our bills?
morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Democracy only works when people have access to the facts. That's why I'm supporting @ChrisGPackham's petition calling for a UK-wide public briefing on climate and nature risks.
Help us reach 100,000 signatures:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
"There are huge costs to not seeing this transition as an economic opportunity."
“There is no tradeoff between economic growth and net zero. Quite the opposite. Net zero is the industrial opportunity of the 21st century.”
#EnergySecurity #RenewableEnergy #NetZero #EnergyTransition
theguardian.com/environment/…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Battery technology has come on faster than anyone – including renewable energy optimists – could have predicted. Twelve years ago, a grid-scale battery cost around $300 per kWh.
Now, batteries cost closer to $60/kWh and we’re starting to approach a real milestone.
With wind, solar, energy efficiency, interconnection, grid upgrade and batteries, the economic case for burning fossil and fissile fuels disappears.
The fact that batteries can ramp up their delivery very quickly also means that they can take over the job currently done by “peaker” gas turbines that kick on when there is sudden high demand for short periods of time.
thenational.scot/news/262874…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Bills are about to go up tomorrow, when they should be going down.
It’s simple:
☀️ Give everyone access to cheap solar and wind energy
🫰 Make sure savings are passed back to us, not hijacked by shareholders and energy CEOs
It's time to #MakeGreenFair: fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/1st…
ALT The Problem: high energy bills. Fossil fuel dependence leaves us exposed to war profiteering. Unfair access to cheap renewables. The Solution: Cheap solar and wind energy for all. End oil wars. Share the benefits of cheap-to-produce renewables. #MakeGreenFair
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
UK and Western Europe being brutalized by a "heat dome" fueled by dry African desert air, and "contorted" jet stream.
Climate change is the main culprit causing this nearly-unprecedented heat event, otherwise impossible without fossil fuels.
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil.
The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy.
More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇
janrosenow.substack.com/
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
🤯 Our bills pay for BP profits of £366 a SECOND
“Politicians are letting them get away with blatant profiteering.
"They need to start doing their job and protecting us from price hikes, or we’ll be paying the price of energy company greed yet again”
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fu…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
As energy costs skyrocket again, we should all be getting our fair share of cheap, clean energy ☀️
That won't happen until politicians transform our rigged system
1⃣ Sign our new petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
2⃣ Read more about #MakeGreenFair: fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/sto…
ALT "Without a guarantee that the benefits of clean energy will reach everyone, the transition risks repeating the mistakes of the past, where green policies disproportionately benefited wealthier households while others were left facing debt or higher costs." - Stu Bretherton, Fuel Poverty Action
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
The marginal cost of gas-fired power in the EU has increased by 51% as a result of the escalation in the Middle East.
In 2022, Europe and the world learned the hard way, that relying on gas power means high price risk for consumers.
Now we're learning the same lesson again.
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
The math behind the Hinkley Point C disaster is infuriating: EDF just pushed, again, the start-up to 2030 and the cost exploded from an original £18b in 2016 to £49b
But how much solar or offshore wind does £49b buy in the real world?
THREAD
ft.com/content/3a1ccd4b-1faf…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Enhanced #geothermal energy could beat #nuclear, coal to meet AI power, cut fossil fuel costs by 60%
Reduce need for wind, solar, and battery storage and operate 24/7
interestingengineering.com/e…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Construction unions are making clear that offshore wind is a win for workers and the environment.
Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to block it are just another front in his war on workers. jacobin.com/2025/12/construc…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
Trump and fossil fuel donors realize threat that #solar power poses to the profits of hydrocarbon cartel and is doing everything within its power to shut it down.
thebulletin.org/premium/2025…
PCS Workers for Climate Justice retweeted
'Seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide 2025 Breakthrough of the Year'.
science.org/content/article/…
