The Good Law Project's legal campaign against Michael Gove’s new rules blocking energy-efficient homes will reach the High Court on 18 June.
Gove’s planning guidance undermines the power of local communities to build housing that tackles fuel poverty and the climate crisis.
I have been in the local print and broadcast media today regarding the launch of the Left Out in the Cold report for which I attended the Parliamentary reception last week.
It might be March, but the fight starts now to prepare for next winter. We can’t continue to allow people to die from cold.
And what will the Red Team do to help us when in power? That £28 billion pledge on Green Industry might help, but Starmer wants to ditch that already, and we all know what he's like with 'Pledges'
Caroline Flint is head of this 'fuel policy charity', remember her attitude to people on benefits? I do.
It's just a game to these people, they don't help, they just line their own pockets.
The energy market in the #UK is broken and has been since it was privatised.
Companies have shareholders who have first call on profits in the form of dividends. They also have top level managers/directors who are on huge salaries and often also get bonuses in the form of shares.
Meanwhile people at the bottom of the income scale struggle to pay their bills and heat their homes. #FuelPoverty#CostOfLivingCrisis#Energy#GTTO
More than 2 million people across the UK will be cut off from their gas and electricity this winter because they cannot afford to top up their prepayment meters, according to Citizens Advice. #Poverty#FuelPoverty#Energy#PrepaymentMeters#UKPolitics
payments to my energy provider are now over 17% of my annual income #fuelpoverty#ScottishIndependence
I live on an island that supplies over 100% of its own needs with renewables & yet its islanders are fuel poor
"Much of the reluctance to do what #ClimateChange requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for #austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly #emissions to nagging feelings of doom and complicity in destruction?
What if the austerity is how we live now — and the #abundance could be what is to come?"
"The majority of people will be better off in virtually all aspects of their lives. Not only the elimination of #FuelPoverty – at last – but improved and warmer homes, #ReducedBills and much better indoor and outdoor air quality.
In short, for the vast majority, this is a significant improvement in quality of life - and, as a side benefit, no more carbon #emissions and much less overall pollution. "