“We’re all being told we have to have smart meters in our homes … and that will give central government the ability to just switch off appliances in your home when the wind isn’t blowing. Now, they don’t like to talk about it very much, but that is what they will do,” argues Andrew Montford,…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he does not want to “hassle” families with net zero targets, following pressure from MPs in his own party to rethink eco policies. On Monday, Mr. Sunak was pressed during a visit to Worcestershire about Tory MPs urging him to rethink the pace of net zero policies. Mr….

Environmentalists have urged the major parties to keep their green pledges as the parties also faced warnings that the net-zero push may cost them elections. It comes after London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) expansion was blamed for Labour’s loss in Thursday’s by-election in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. Conservative MP and GB…

The policy to erase Britons’ collective carbon footprint—otherwise known as Net Zero—has been a matter of broad political consensus for decades and has been little challenged by the media or in the court of public opinion. But that public support is “paper thin” and relies on people not really grasping just how much their lives…

The rush to net zero could leave gaping holes for Chinese-backed hackers to disrupt Australia’s energy grid, warns Senator James Paterson. Solar power is a key pillar in the march towards reducing emissions with Australia estimated to need 2.7 billion solar panels to reach net zero by 2050, according to estimates from the University of…

EDMONTON—The federal government’s plan for a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 faces considerable regulatory, technical, and supply chain challenges, according to a new report, and Alberta Minister of Affordability and Utilities Nathan Neudorf said the cost to Albertans will be extreme. “We are at a critical point in history where the global energy market is…

Alberta’s new Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Rebecca Schulz had an in-person meeting Wednesday with her federal counterpart, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, and discussed Ottawa’s pending electricity regulations and emissions, but it wasn’t clear how much consensus, if any, the two jurisdictions reached on the issues. “I informed Minister Guilbeault that our government remains…

Nigel Farage has warned there is a danger of the UK moving towards a “Chinese-style social credit system” after a dossier revealed his bank reportedly closed his account after deeming that his views did “not align with [their] values.” On Wednesday, former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage released pages of documents in the Daily Mail…

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Andrew Montford, author and director of Net Zero Watch. Andrew talks about the impact on our lives of the complete transformation of society needed to meet government carbon emission targets. And explains that even if Western countries did meet their Net Zero targets, it would make little difference without…

A meeting this week between the federal and Alberta ministers of the environment could be heated—at least behind closed doors, according to Marco Navarro-Genie. “I don’t imagine that it’ll be very friendly at all, given what’s at stake,” Mr. Navarro-Genie, president of the Haultain Research Institute in Calgary, and a former political studies professor at Mount…