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The Net Zero Carbon Scam - Steve - 07-25-2022

The “Great Zero Carbon” Conspiracy and the WEF’s “Great Reset”

The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of “net zero carbon” by 2050. This for most sounds far in the future and hence largely ignored. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, to countless other economies, are setting the stage for creation of what in the 1970’s was called the New International Economic Order. 

In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, one that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse by design. Consider some background....


https://www.globalresearch.ca/great-zero-carbon-criminal-conspiracy/5736707


RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 09-19-2022

What is Net Zero Costing You?

Telegraph Money has published an excellent feature today which reads like a submission to the review Chris Skidmore is carrying out on behalf of the Government into whether net zero is being met in an “economically efficient way” and will not place “undue burdens on businesses or consumers”. As Telegraph Money makes clear, it is already placing considerable burdens on businesses and consumers. Here is an extract, breaking down the burden in three different areas:
Quote:Home Insulation
Under the race to reach net zero, the Government has said it wants Britain’s housing stock to be much more energy efficient, but the burden of doing so has been laid squarely on property owners.
And as record-high energy bills eat away at household budgets, property buyers have become more discerning about “EPC” ratings.
Every property has an Energy Performance Certificate, ranging from A to G. Homes with a rating from A to C are considered to be energy efficient, while anything below is considered poor. The average rating for a British home is D.
Sellers are facing increasing pressure to invest their money into home upgrades in order to stay competitive. Vendors who have spent money to improve their EPC rating have pocketed 16pc extra on average when selling their home, according to research from the property website Rightmove.
But not all homeowners can afford the upgrades necessary to move up a band. Big upgrades such as insulation improvements cost thousands of pounds. For example, paying for foam insulation in cavity walls for a three-bedroom home would cost £1,200. This could save £285 a year in energy bills at current prices, but this means it would take at least four years to pay off.
Heat pumps are another source of frustration for many homeowners. The Government has committed to heat pumps as the replacement for gas boilers, with a target of 600,000 devices installed each year by 2028. By 2025, gas boilers will be banned from newly built homes, and by 2035 the Government wants to phase out all gas boiler installations.
However, the upfront costs of installing a heat pump versus the cost of installing a gas boiler has put many homeowners off.
Until 2025, homeowners who opt to install a heat pump will receive a £5,000 grant to do so as part of the Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme. But installation costs can be in excess of £10,000. Meanwhile gas boiler costs range from £1,000 to £4,000, according to Boiler Guide, a network of gas and heat pump engineers.
Running costs are not always cheaper for heat pumps, either. In June, the Climate Change Committee, an independent Government adviser on tackling climate change, estimated that the cost of running a heat pump was 10% higher than gas.


Read more: What is Net Zero Costing You? 


RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - Steve - 04-08-2023

Telegram - https://t.me/wideawakemedia/3268

By 2049, the climate totalitarians intend to close all UK airports, ban petrol and diesel cars, ban shipping, ban gas boilers and cookers, "phase out" beef and lamb consumption, and much more, all under the guise of solving a non-existent "climate crisis".

See for yourself: https://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf


RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 05-30-2023

Not Dark Yet… But it’s Getting There

I do not think this can be sustained indefinitely. Unless we are rescued by an unforeseen technological bonus, something, at some point, will crack.
There seem to me to be two possible directions of travel. The first possibility is that resistance to Net Zero measures grows and governments respond to that, by abandoning or (more likely) delaying the goal, or by going about it in an economically more rational way, as I set out earlier – though this will of course make the costs even more visible and obvious. This could happen as doubts about the nature of the ‘crisis’ grow, and as voters in the West get frustrated by the persistent slow growth and increasing restrictions on their lifestyle while the rest of the world carries on as normal. The Dutch Farmers’ Party’s success is a straw in the wind here, but to make any real impact mainstream political parties here and across Europe need to pick up the issue, and it would require a persistent minority to push hard to change the debate. This is not impossible – we saw it in the U.S. and U.K. on lockdown policy during the pandemic. But at the moment the political conditions seem a long way from allowing this to happen.

The second possibility is one in which governments recognise they can no longer credibly sustain an economic justification for their measures, but the wider politics and the reluctance to admit error mean they cannot abandon the target and must try to reach it. At that point we should expect to see a ramping up of the catastrophic risk rhetoric in order to justify much tougher measures, the diversion of perhaps 5% of GDP annually, maybe more, and together with assertive measures to control consumption and demand. My worry is that the broader climate of economic and political debate tends to lead us in this direction. The huge focus on lifestyle change to save the planet, the politicisation of everyday lifestyle choices, the emphasis on living local and sustainability rather than being a burden on the earth, and the focus on reducing energy consumption rather than seeing cheap and abundant energy for what it is, a necessity to improve human lives: all this prepares the ground. Worse, policy during the pandemic showed how difficult it was for most governments to escape the climate of opinion they had created, to admit to errors, and to change course. All this is seriously alarming. If we don’t resist this miserabilist approach now, the approach that ends with lifestyle restrictions and rationing, we will risk seriously damaging levels of economic irrationality in the next decade. That outcome would risk us not just going dark through power supply shortages but could set the West seriously on the back foot in the geopolitical competition of the coming years.

We need to be ready for that moment and prepare to argue for a more rational path with a rethink of methods and, almost uncertainly, timetable

The job of those who are willing to question the rush to Net Zero is to see this crunch moment coming and to start to get the politics ready. We must show that pushing for Net Zero on the current timetable and with current methods involves unacceptable costs to the economy and to individuals. We must persistently question the view that voters must just live with those costs and adjust their lifestyles as a result. That doesn’t involve claiming that Net Zero, or something close to it, is an undesirable goal: carbon reduction is worth doing. It involves explaining that we have chosen a method which ensures vast waste, inefficiency, cronyism, and economic decline, the costs of which will be borne by the average voter. Accordingly, we need a rethink of the methods and, almost certainly, the timetable. And we must do this in ways which can be easily communicated and resonate with public opinion.

I suggest the following areas.

● First, we should keep underlining that there is not just a problem, there is a solution. That is gas to nuclear, backed with investment in fundamental research, and taking advantage of technological advances. This doesn’t require massive reinvestment in new energy production of doubtful value. The Government can stop guessing about future winners and support investment in technologies which exist now and offer the best, fastest, and most reliable way of getting emissions down quickly.

● Second, we may therefore need to be more dismissive of current renewable technology as an unnecessary complication. We need to find a much clearer way of explaining why renewables are inherently more expensive than the other options and communicating the obvious point that if you need renewables plus backup, why not just have the backup and avoid all other problems?

● Third, we must keep underlining the costs to the average voter – the mounting totals of renewables subsidies, both on bills and in tax, the extra costs of poor quality boilers and electric cars, the impact of compulsory insulation and energy efficiency, and much more. Moreover we can point out that, even at this level, we are off track to deliver Net Zero. All the pain is not even delivering the goal.

● Fourth, point out who is benefiting: the wealthy who can afford dubious carbon offsets, the green energy companies that are raking off taxpayer subsidies, and many more. They’re getting the benefits and meanwhile small businesses that produce useful products are being crushed by the burdens.

● Fifth, point to lockdown. In 2020 the banning of most human contact and travel resulted in a fall in U.K. emissions of just 9%. Imagine what it would take to get that figure down significantly further. Are people prepared to live with very much tougher restrictions on their lives for ever?

● And finally, be positive. We have allowed Net Zero advocates to become associated with positivity, with the clean green future, when in fact what they offer is a future of rationing, of restrictions, and of miserabilism. We need to keep underlining that we believe in the future, it is we who have a solution for the problem of cost-effective energy at scale, and it is we who believe human ingenuity will solve the climate change issue in a way that makes us all better off.

To conclude. We aren’t dark yet, but we do risk getting there. At the moment we are heading in the wrong direction. We are hamstringing ourselves, making our people poorer, reducing opportunity, and as a result limiting our economic, political, foreign policy, and defence capacity – our ability to get what we want in the world and make ourselves richer. But at the same time there are the first signs of consumer resistance to the practical consequences of the Net Zero ideology. A crunch is coming. We must do everything we can to change the debate and be ready for the moment when we can hope to push things in a different direction. The future of our societies rests on it.
[b]Stop Press:[/b] Bob Ward, the veteran opponent of climate contrarianism, has done his best to rebut Lord Frost’s argument with his usual intellectual acuity.




RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 06-08-2023

Chief ‘Covid’ Con Artist Whitty to approve planning for 60% of new homes to promote 15-minute cities

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The UK government is to invest £3.2 billion and has created a new statutory consulting body to nudge and corral people into 15-minute cities. Active Travel England (“ATE”), as the new body is called, has recently been tasked with approving all large planning applications, about 60% of new homes. The “Expert Advisor” of the scheme is none other than Chief Covid Con Artist Chris Whitty.
Of course, they make it sound all fluffy and nice, “it’s for your own good” … and voluntary. But this is the start of corralling people into their dystopian 15-minute neighbourhoods and, by overseeing planning applications, forcing businesses to comply with it.
“Active Travel England is responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choice for everyone to get around. Our objective is for 50% of trips in England’s towns and cities to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030,” the website states.
“By 2030.” There is the red flag that this is being driven by the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. Once you see the agenda behind the bumph, you can safely assume the rest of the text is psychological mumbo jumbo and it is what is not being said that is important.
England’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, is one of 4 that form the advisory panel called Active Travel England. The other three are West Midlands’ Mayor Andy Street, Chair of the Office of Rail and Road Declan Collier and engineering consulting firm Arup’s Global Transport Leader Isabel Dedring. The advisory panel will meet quarterly. The first meeting took place in late October 2022.
The Government has set aside £3.2 billion of investment in active travel and has so far embedded active travel into 1,000 major new developments.
Statutory consultees are organisations and bodies defined by statute that local planning authorities are legally required to consult before deciding on relevant planning applications.
As of 1 June 2023, ATE became “officially a statutory consultee on all planning applications for developments equal to or exceeding 150 housing units, 7,500 m2 of floorspace or an area of 5 hectares.” This will see ATE reviewing around 3,100 applications a year, equating to 60% of new homes. The establishment of ATE as a statutory consultee follows a pilot project which saw ATE work with 30 local authorities to assess more than 60 developments over the 9 months up until November 2022.
Active Travel England has been registered as a company. [1] It doesn’t show up on a search of Companies House’s website under that name so it’s not clear when the company was formed. Whitty is not a director of the company, instead, he is ATE’s “Expert Adviser,” written with the capital letters no less.
A quick review of ATE’s annual report and accounts for the year 2022/2023, from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023, reveals some interesting details.
They plan to affect all modes of travel with their plans to coerce people into walking, wheeling and cycling. “We have made the first steps in developing our strategic relationships, starting to establish working arrangements with National Highways and laying the groundwork for future collaboration with Mayoral Combined Authorities and indeed all transport authorities in the country,” CEO Danny Williams said.
Williams has spent over 25 years leading media businesses. He was a member of the Mayor of London’s ‘Roads Task Force’. In his spare time, he has been advocating for change in how villages, towns and cities approach walking and cycling. In the “new normal,” it seems a hobby is a sufficient qualification to head a project that will remove the inalienable right to freedom of movement for 68 million people.
ATE is bribing councils to go along with their dystopian plans:
ATE’s primary financial activity is the provision of grants to local authorities and delivery partners. In 2022/23 ATE awarded £254m in grants.
We provide direct funding to local authorities to build active travel infrastructure, increase capability and deliver more opportunities for people to walk, wheel or cycle for local trips.
Active Travel England: Annual report and accounts 2022/2023
Just so that a conflict of interest doesn’t become just another “conspiracy theory,” ATE’s report tells us that one of the grantees, Isabelle Clement, is also one of ATE’s directors. It’s easier to award yourself a grant if you’re one of the five directors of the company giving the grants. The amount Clement has awarded herself hasn’t been disclosed [2] leaving room for speculation to abound so she can be gallantly defended by “fact-checkers” or BBC Verify even.

ATE has so far had very little engagement. Their publicity stunts over the last year have attracted only 400 people:
To introduce local authorities and developers to our new role, we delivered 10 local roadshows across all regions in England, which attracted over 400 attendees in total.
Active Travel England: Annual report and accounts 2022/2023
According to Local Government Information Unit (“LGIU”), there are 318 principal councils with roughly 17,000 councillors in England. And who knows how many “developers” there are.

As at the end of the last financial year, ATE had 34 members of permanent staff and has spent £1,685 million on salaries – just under an average of £50,000 for each employee, assuming all 34 had been employed for the full year. So far, ATE has only “onboarded” 54% of its total full-time employees so this would be only half of the salary expenditure that can be expected going forwards.
In addition, ATE has spent £50,000 on accommodation and £36,000 on travel and subsistence. Most frequently in financial statements, subsistence refers to staff expenses such as meals. So, we could guess that ATE’s 10 road shows – plus some other expenses presumably relating to meetings with each other and local councils and perhaps some benefits in kind such as “business lunches” – cost £86,000 … for 400 attendees. ATE sounds super-efficient and worth every penny.
During the last year, £350,124 was spent on consultancy and advice services. This was paid to one, just one, contractor who is not named. Outside consultants are hired for their skills because ATE does not have them in-house. In the “new normal” there may be a lot of skills ATE doesn’t have in-house so it wouldn’t come as a surprise if consultancy fees rise exponentially in the future.


Read More: Chief Covid Con Artist Chris Whitty to approve planning for 60% of new homes


RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 06-12-2023

15-Minutes Lockdown — “Immobilize the Greater Part of Humanity
15-Minutes Lockdown — “Immobilize the Greater Part of Humanity”

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Supposedly completely innovative and revolutionary projects, announced today as a part of the Even Braver and Newer World, not only already existed, but in previous stages have been fiercely destroyed and eradicated, as unnecessary obstacles in the way of progress.
Who really blew up public transport?
The same people who today forbid us to use private cars, previously effectively limited and eliminated public transport. Bus and train lines subjected to commercialisation and privatisation ceased to function as public services, in practice forcing people to change to their own cars, which was joyfully applauded by the car industry.
Now this is a time for bicycle and moped manufacturers to take their share of the accumulation, but we are to believe that this particular industry is based on voluntary cooperatives of hippie koala bears, and is not the same business as others, with equally large lobbying funds and access to councilors’ and mayors’ wallets. Unfortunately, the drivers hunting will not automatically resurrect bus and railway lines.
Blocking of cities is not accompanied by the reconstruction of public transport, on the contrary, in fact it is often hindered as well, because no bus or tram will fly over these empty, concrete hectares, created in the city centres, with no cars, but with no people either.  For as much as [b]the real purpose is not to replace one form of transport for another, but to actually immobilise the greater part of humanity.[/b]
Herbivores
Now in Eastern Europe we have lot of critics of the city centres transformation, which has started exactly after 1990 and escalated with joining EU. Well, fine, but who the hell actually turned these town districts into stone and concrete deserts? Who uprooted the trees and bushes for years growing in the communal squares, ‘because bums may hang out there’?
Who wanted them to be modern and European, because for sure not the locals, but the same elite, who now pretend to be so close to nature and green liking? They destroyed greenery that had existed for generations, and now they claim to have invented green squares and lawns! And again, old and natural greenery disturbs, but trees must be planted in pots in the middle of the streets, as it was done for millions of pounds in the UK town during the pandemic. In fact, it is social engineering, not ecology and environmentally friendly urban planning.
[b]We already had green, friendly neighbourhood units.[/b]
The recently fashionable vision of the ‘15-Minute Cities’ has a similarly alienating character. Its inhabitants may be able to go for a soy latte on foot, but the barista who will prepare that for them and the cleaner who will take care of the mess in their apartments will have to travel for hours with three electric bus transfers to these oases of modern, green brave happiness.  What is more, the idea itself is completely unrelated to European urban planning, being a reaction to the American cities problems, which for nearly a hundred years had been divided into strictly separated zones of residence, business, industry and entertainment, what resulted in the need to move farther and farther within heavy traffic and with restrictive highway code.


Read More – 15-Minutes Lockdown — “Immobilize the Greater Part of Humanity”




RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 06-14-2023

From Net Zero To Glyphosate: Agritech’s Greenwashed Power Grab


Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a ‘food transition’. Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much- promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production.
These are the very institutions responsible for the social, ecological and environmental degradation associated with the current food system. The same bodies responsible for spiralling rates of illness due to the toxic food they produce or promote.
In this narrative, there is no space for any mention of the type of power relations that have shaped the prevailing food system and many of the current problems.
Tony Weis from the University of Western Ontario provides useful insight:
World agriculture is marked by extreme imbalances that are among the most durable economic legacies of European imperialism. Many of the world’s poorest countries in the tropics are net food importers despite having large shares of their labor force engaged in agriculture and large amounts of their best arable land devoted to agro-export commodities.”
He adds that this commodity dependence has deep roots in waves of dispossession, the establishment of plantations and the subjugation of peasantries to increasing competitive pressures at the same time as they were progressively marginalised.
In the 2018 book The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, Jason Hickel describes the processes involved in Europe’s wealth accumulation over a 150-year period of colonialism that resulted in tens of millions of deaths.
By using other countries’ land, Britain effectively doubled the size of arable land in its control. This made it more practical to then reassign the rural population at home (by stripping people of their productive means) to industrial labour. This too was underpinned by massive violence (burning villages, destroying houses, razing crops).
In more recent times, neoliberalism has further reinforced the power relations that underpin the system, cementing the control of agricultural production by global corporations and facilitated by the policies of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
CORPORATE FOOD TRANSITION
The food transition is couched in the language of climate emergency and sustainability. It envisages a particular future for farming. It is not organic and relatively few farmers have a place in it.
Post-1945, corporate agribusiness, largely backed by the US state, the Rockefeller Foundation and financial institutions, has been promoting and instituting a chemical-dependent system of industrial agriculture. Rural communities, ecological systems, the environment, human health and indigenous systems of food cultivation have been devastated in the process.
Now, the likes of Bayer, Corteva and Syngenta are working with Microsoft, Google and the big-tech giants to facilitate farmerless farms driven by cloud and AI technology. A cartel of data owners and proprietary input suppliers are reinforcing their grip on the global food system while expanding their industrial model of crop cultivation.
One way they are doing this is by driving the ‘climate emergency’ narrative, a contested commentary that has been carefully promoted (see the work of investigative journalist Cory Morningstar), and net-zero ideology and tying this to carbon offsetting and carbon credits.
Many companies from various sectors are securing large areas of land in the Global South to establish tree plantations and claim carbon credits that they can sell on international carbon markets. In the meantime, by supposedly ‘offsetting’ their emissions, they can carry on polluting.
In countries where industrial agriculture dominates, ‘carbon farming’ involves modifying existing practices to claim that carbon is being sequestered in the soil and to then sell carbon credits.
This is explained in a recent presentation by Devlin Kuyek of the non-profit GRAIN who sets out the corporate agenda behind carbon farming.
One of the first major digital agriculture platforms is called Climate FieldView, an app owned by Bayer. It collects data from satellites and sensors in fields and on tractors and then uses algorithms to advise farmers on their farming practices: when and what to plant, how much pesticide to spray, how much fertiliser to apply, etc. FieldView is already being used on farms in the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Europe.
To be part of Bayer’s Carbon Program, farmers have to be enrolled in Bayer’s FieldView digital agriculture platform. Bayer then uses the FieldView app to instruct farmers on the implementation of just two practices that are said to sequester carbon in the soils: reduced tillage or no-till farming and the planting of cover crops.
Through the app, the company monitors these two practices and estimates the amount of carbon that the participating farmers have sequestered. Farmers are then supposed to be paid according to Bayer’s calculations, and Bayer uses that information to claim carbon credits and sell these in carbon markets.
In August 2022, Bayer launched a new programme in the US called ForGround. Upstream companies can use the platform to advertise and offer discounts for tilling equipment, forage seeds and other inputs. But Bayer’s big target is the downstream food companies which can use the platform to claim emissions reductions in their supply chains.
Places like India are also laying the groundwork for these types of platforms. In April 2021, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers.
Microsoft will ‘help’ farmers with post-harvest management solutions by building a collaborative platform and capturing agriculture datasets such as crop yields, weather data, market demand and prices. In turn, this would create a farmer interface for ‘smart’ agriculture, including post-harvest management and distribution.
CropData will be granted access to a government database of 50 million farmers and their land records. As the database is developed, it will include farmers’ personal details –
Profile of land held – cadastral maps, farm size, land titles, local climatic and geographical conditions.
Production details – crops grown, production history, input history, quality of output, machinery in possession.
Financial details – input costs, average return, credit history.


Read More: From Net Zero To Glyphosate: Agritech’s Greenwashed Power Grab



RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - awakened53 - 06-19-2023

Ten Labour MPs, including five frontbenchers, vowed to promote policies for Extinction Rebellion eco-fanatics



Ten Labour MPs – including five frontbenchers – have vowed to promote the policies of Extinction Rebellion, it emerged last night.
They signed a pledge of allegiance with the eco-activist group, including promising to support and vote for legislation to make the UK net zero by 2025.
It is feared this would destroy swathes of British industry, cost millions of jobs and even cause the lights to go out.
The pact was signed ahead of the 2019 election, a year after Extinction Rebellion launched its campaign of direct action by blocking bridges and roads.
Remarks that year from Labour’s climate change chief, Ed Miliband, have also emerged in which he praised XR for its ‘exciting’ activism and called for it to be ‘sustained’ and ‘deepened’.


Read more: Ten Labour MPs, including five frontbenchers, vowed to promote policies for Extinction Rebellion eco-fanatics



RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - Steve - 06-27-2023

Cult-Owned Rishi Sunak to Hit Households With £170 Net Zero Levy Within Days


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Households will pay a £170-a-year Net Zero levy on energy bills in the coming days, with Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt accused of “slyly” shifting costs back to consumers. The Telegraph has the story.

Quote:The Telegraph has learned that the two-year suspension of green levies announced last autumn is to end from the beginning of July, after just nine months.
The cost of the levies was shifted from consumer bills to be funded instead by the Government, following a year-long campaign by energy firms and MPs amid spiralling gas, electricity and food prices last year.
It will again be imposed on consumers, although there has been no formal announcement. Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was Business and Energy Secretary when the costs were taken away from consumers last year, said: “Green levies are part of the problem behind the U.K.’s particularly high electricity prices. They ought to be abolished but should fall on general taxation until that can happen. The ambition for Net Zero must not make us cold and poor. Any new or re-imposed charge ought to be announced to Parliament first and not slipped through slyly.”
The decision to fund the green levies via general taxation, as opposed to consumer bill payments, was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng, the then Chancellor, when he unveiled the energy bailout used by the Government to subsidise consumer bills since its creation in October.
At the time, the Government said: “Schemes previously funded by green levies will also continue to be funded by the Government during this two-year period to ensure the U.K.’s investment in home-grown, secure renewable technologies continues.”
But the Treasury will stop funding the cost – which has risen from £150 last year to £170 now – from July, meaning that it will be borne by consumers once again.
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Cult-Owned Rishi Sunak to Hit Households With £170 Net Zero Levy Within Days



https://davidicke.com/2023/06/26/cult-owned-rishi-sunak-to-hit-households-with-170-net-zero-levy-within-days/


RE: The Net Zero Carbon Scam - Steve - 07-04-2023

That woman does it again!

Remember Sandy Adams, that woman who challenged the Glastonbury Town Council about Agenda 2030. She is back challenging the council about NetZero.


https://youtu.be/dolCH1tKGnk