Packaging Europe - Bottle deposits would deliver thousands of Green Jobs

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) today (Wednesday) launches new research demonstrating how well over 4,000 full time equivalent green jobs could be created by a UK deposit refund system (DRS) for drinks containers.

Today In History:  It's now been four years since the peak of global warming hysteria

In 2007, more than 150 musical artists rocked the world in the global environmental awareness concert dubbed Live Earth. Former Vice President Al Gore was among the organizers of the 24-hour, seven-continent global event which delivered music and messages designed to raise awareness about global warming. Featuring performers like Madonna, the Police, Shakira, Linkin Park, Kanye West, Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, the concerts were held in New Jersey, London, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Washington, D.C., Sydney, Rio de Janeiro. The little-known band Nunatak even played a short set from Antarctica before 17 researchers to fulfilll Gore's promise to hold concerts on all seven continents on the date 7-7-07.

Greens' hot air blows a hole in their credibility | thetelegraph.com.au

1. Among a sea of stupidity from Canberra comes Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young wanting to abandon the steel industry in Whyalla and replace it with wind turbines. The 400 people required for the project would leave the 3600 working in steel looking for work. Whyalla's other 20,000 residents could start basket-weaving to sustain the town. Or maybe ride exercise bikes to generate power when the wind stops blowing.

» Utility Acknowledges Millions in Ratepayer Charges to Pay for Green Gestures - Big Government

You want to fund some ‘green’ scheme, or build a bunch of windmills with their extraordinarily expensive transmission schemes on top and then an otherwise redundant gas plant for (chuckle) ‘backup’?

Great. But you can only pass through to the ratepayer what it would have cost to build something that works. The waste and folly all comes out of your and your shareholders’ hide.