MEP in “twunt” shocker!
February 22nd, 2006 at 16:24
Christ on a bike! I feel like a proper investigative journalist! Almost a year ago East Midlands MEP Derek Clark came to my old school to rant at us about how awful the EU was- aside from admitting he was on the EU gravy train and enjoying it, when my friends and I questioned him at the end of the “general studies” session about energy, he reacted in a rather animated way.
We asked him if he agreed with fellow UKIPper Steve Reid who reckons that wind power isn’t renewable because it “takes energy out of the earth’s atmosphere” and could “slow the rotation of the earth”. Seriously. Dezza didn’t commit entirely to this idea- but did say there’s a lot of speculation and that no-one knows for sure. He claimed wind farms are ineffective when its not windy and so on, and that if we only used renewable energy, they’d be no form of redundancy. This was wrong, of course. He also suggested that we’d have to run fossil-fuel power plants anyway, for back up measures. I wonder why he said this?
Could this be because he owns shares in Powergen and British Gas? See: here (warning: PDF link). He also seems to be collecting a pension at the same time- he is old, though.
But, Derek Clark- yes, you, Derek Roland Clark, your lack of faith in renewable energy wouldn’t have anything to do with your financial interests, would it?
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