Energy From Renewables Balls

It is I guess no surprise that the Government is talking out of both sides of its mouth about shale gas. Lately it seems to have been saying that it will allow exploitation of the cheap, environmentally friendly stuff (it emits less CO2) but it also seems to be doing nothing to encourage that exploitation. You would think the Government would be mad keen to reduce the cost of energy as low energy costs must be a help in kick starting the economy. But no, because we are snared in the EU 'energy from renewables' net we have to spend taxpayers' money on subsidising wind farms. Christopher Booker had an excellent piece about this in the Telegraph yesterday. It is the second item in the article which you can read here. Incidentally his first piece in that article is worth reading too. It is the first time I have read about Article 50 and I would like to hear whether others of a eurosceptic nature agree with the Booker's analysis. However even if Booker is correct I take the view that as Parliament is sovereign that if it passes an Act repealing the European Communities Act 1972 that automatically means we cease to be a member of the EU. This means that we do not need to be concerned with things like Article 50 but simply announce to the EU that we want to change the terms of our membership or we are out. More and more German commentators are talking about the splitting up of the EU. It also seems the Americans are now beginning to see that this might happen as you can see from Charles Crawford's blog of yesterday here. Either our departure from the EU or the change in the terms of our membership should mean our exit from the EU 'energy from renewables' nonsense.