1/6/13, “Future grandchild for Prince Charles sparks new green plea,” BBC
“The Prince of Wales has said he does not want to hand on an “increasingly dysfunctional” environmental situation to his grandchild, due in the summer.
Princes Charles told ITV1′s This Morning programme he did not want the child to wonder why past generations
did not act
to protect the environment.
He said he did not want to leave a “total poisoned chalice” to future children. The prince has long been an outspoken campaigner on environmental issues.
In a recording from Clarence House, the prince said he remains concerned about climate change and possible long-term environmental damage.
He told the programme: “We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren, to leave them with the real problem.
“I don’t want to be confronted by my future grandchild and [have] them say: ‘Why didn’t you do something?’
“So clearly now that we will have a grandchild, it makes it even more obvious to try and make sure we leave them something that isn’t a total poisoned chalice.”
In December the prince told reporters he was “thrilled” at the prospect of becoming a grandfather for the first time….
Prince Charles has long been a high-profile environmental advocate and in 2007 set up The Prince’s Rainforest Group to find a solution to save the world’s threatened forests.
Last June he addressed the Rio+20 UN sustainability conference, and in February 2011
he warned MEPs in Brussels that ignoring environmental concerns
- could damage economic growth….
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Prince Charles is harming Communist Chinese grandchildren by promoting and profiting from the UK’s present and future use of wind turbines:
“The lake of toxic waste at Baotou, China, which as been dumped by the rare earth processing plants in the background.”
1/29/11, “In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale,” UK Daily Mail, by Simon Parry in China and Ed Douglas in Scotland
“Dalahai villagers say their teeth began to fall out, their hair turned white at unusually young ages, and they suffered from severe skin and respiratory diseases. Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed.
Official studies carried out five years ago in Dalahai village confirmed there were unusually high rates of cancer along with high rates of osteoporosis and skin and respiratory diseases.
The lake’s radiation levels are ten times higher than in the surrounding countryside, the studies found.
Since then, maybe because of pressure from the companies
operating around the lake, which pump out waste 24 hours a day, the results of ongoing radiation and toxicity tests carried out on the lake have been kept secret and officials have refused to publicly acknowledge health risks to nearby villages….
Already, RO (Renewable Obligation) adds £1.4 billion to our bills each year to provide a pot of money to pay power companies for their ‘green’ electricity. By 2020, the figure will have risen to somewhere between £5 billion and £10 billion.
When he was Chancellor, Gordon Brown added another decade to these price guarantees, extending the RO scheme to 2037, guaranteeing the subsidy for more than a quarter of a century….By 2020, environmental regulation will be adding 31 per cent to our bills….
Our current obsession with wind power, according to John Constable of energy think-tank the Renewable Energy Foundation, stems from the decision of the European Union on how to tackle climate change. Instead of just setting targets for reducing emissions, the EU told governments that by 2020, 15 per cent of all the energy we use must come from renewable sources. …
But there’s a structural flaw in the plan, which this winter has brutally exposed….On December 20, because winds were light or non-existent, wind energy contributed a paltry 140 megawatts.
Despite billions of pounds in investment and subsidies, Britain’s wind-turbine fleet was producing a feeble 2.43 per cent of its own capacity – and little more than 0.2 per cent of the nation’s electricity in the coldest month since records began.
The problems with the intermittency of wind energy are well known….The government has also realised that when wind nears its target of 30 per cent,
power companies will need more back-up to fill the gap
when the wind doesn’t blow.”…
“Villagers Su Bairen, 69, and Yan Man Jia Hong, 74, stand on the edge of the six-mile-wide toxic lake in Baotou, China that has devastated their farmland and ruined the health of the people in their community,” UK Daily Mail
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12/31/10, “One’s in the money! Why Prince Charles’s secret 20-year campaign could make him the richest king in history,” UK Daily Mail, G. Levy
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10/24/10, “Queen’s £38m a year windfarm windfall,” This is money, by Martin Delgado and Christopher Leake
“Experts predict the growth in offshore windfarms could be worth up to £250m a year to the Crown Estate….’It is wholly inappropriate that the Palace should have such a direct interest in a subject like windfarms, given Prince Charles’s obsession with renewable energy. It raises the question as to
- whether he is seeking to increase his own
each time he makes a favourable reference to wind power.’”
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Arab Sheikh friend of UK Prince Andrew put millions into wind farm from which UK Royals will profit
“”Mutual benefit: Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahayan has been friends with Prince Andrew since childhood.”
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10/31/2010, “Andrew’s friend the Abu Dhabi prince – and the £3billion windfarm off Britain that could earn the Queen millions,” UK Daily Mail, Ian Gallagher and George Arbuthnott
“An Arab royal who frequently entertains Prince Andrew has secured a multi million-pound stake in the world’s biggest windfarm in a deal that could earn a fortune for the Queen.
Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – the brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi – has been friends with Andrew since their days at Gordonstoun School in Scotland.
His energy company, Masdar, owns 20 per cent of the planned £3 billion London Array windfarm in the Thames Estuary. And last night questions were raised about the Duke of York’s possible role in facilitating the deal.
It is understood that Andrew was consulted when Shell, an original member of the consortium running the scheme, withdrew its backing….
The Mail on Sunday revealed last week that with the Government scrapping the Civil List and instead giving the Queen 15 per cent of Crown Estate profits, experts estimate that offshore windfarms could net the Royals up to £37.5 million a year on top of earnings from the rest of the Estate’s £6 billion property portfolio.
The Duke is a regular visitor to Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates. In April he was given free run of a luxury villa inside the Gulf royals’ personal compound – hospitality that some felt was at odds with his role as an ambassador for British business. Andrew is also a regular visitor to Sheikh Mohammed’s house in Morocco, where the pair go hunting.
Last night, critics said the Masdar deal represented a potential conflict of interest, although Buckingham Palace insisted Andrew played no part in it.
‘This raises very serious questions about how appropriate it is to fund the Royals from a state-owned property empire, which is basically what the Crown Estate is,’ said Graham Smith, campaign manager of anti-monarchist group Republic.
‘How can we know that when Andrew is lobbying business and when Prince Charles is lobbying on green energy that they’re not pursuing
their own interests above those of the country?’…
Prince Charles, who takes a close personal interest in Crown Estate matters, also has close links to Masdar. He is the patron of the Masdar Institute, a ‘green’ think-tank.…
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said yesterday: ‘The Duke played no role – formal or informal – in Masdar’s involvement in the London Array deal. He was invited, as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, to the celebratory meal held by Masdar on winning the contract.
‘This is entirely appropriate since the Duke is a strong supporter of the Masdar City initiative and has lobbied hard for British firms to win some of the £12.5 billion of contracts on offer there. There was never any conflict of interest on the part of His Royal Highness.’”
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Ed. note: UK royals are free to pursue and profit from personal business interests with Saudi Sheikhs. Those business interests include permanent transformation of the minds and bodies of Americans and the land for which they fought and died. Unfortunately, Ruling Class US elected representatives think this is a fine idea too.
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