moss wrote:
And if we are really being cynical this morning, the RSPB petition does'nt come out of it too well either, considering its being quiet on the Shetland wind turbines - because of its commercial interests in the firm SSE who are building them... but there again maybe its all media hype...
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2001652,00.htmlThe RSPB's deal with Scottish and Southern Energy is a fucking outrage. People sign up to SSE's 'RSPB tariff', thinking they're getting proper renewable electiricty and helping the RSPB.
It costs about 5% more than the normal tariff. for that, the RSPB get a paltry £10 when the customer signs up, and a fiver a year thereafter.
The 'renewable electricity' is 90% from old hydro-electric dams; it does not encourage any of the new renewable generation we so badly need.
Worse, SSE are one of six UK generators suing the EU for an increase in their already overgenerous carbon emissions allowances. It is plainly not a company with concern about climate change.
Those profits given by customers are funding the lawyers suning to exacerbate climate change and the lobbyists working for a new generation of fossil power stations. Any RSPB member should seriously think about what that'll do for birdlife and whether they want to be funding it.
They - and everyone else - should be with a real green electricity supplier.
I've just done an article evaluating them over on U-Know
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/uknow/features/?id=80
