"Green" policies are destroying this country

Unless you purchase very high quality and expensive clothing, most clothes sold in retail are designed to not last - they will fall apart, shrink, discolour or otherwise become unusable long before a needle and thread is required

The Dutch are now suffering the consequences of 'putting the cart before the horse planning' as they are forced to ration power. The infrastructure network is not in place to meet demand as a result if the reconfiguration towards less reliable sources of energy. It seems that a lack of joined up thinking and ability to forward plan is not just an Irish disease…

https://www.ft.com/content/9c7560ec-a220-4150-a35e-a79db70c0c07

More than 11,900 businesses are waiting for electricity network connections, according to Netbeheer Nederland, the association of Dutch grid operators. On top of that are public buildings such as hospitals and fire stations as well as thousands of new houses.Dutch officials and companies said lengthy waits for connections were holding up economic growth and could force businesses to rethink their investment plans. Despite efforts to invest in new cables and substations, new connections in some areas of the country will only become available in the mid-2030s, according to network operators.

My point was that renewables are presented as green when they are not due to scarcity and complexity of materials used in harvesting such energy. Add in maintenance cost and "shelf life" and cost of disposal and suddenly it become expensive and not green at all.

Problem with renewables is that they are costly to set up and then costly to maintain and whole industry would be on its knees without heavy government support and subsidies.

So there is no point to pat ourselves on our back about how much of solar or wind energy was generated when we (as taxpayers) end up paying for it twice, once when its generated and then again when we use it.

Follow the money. The Investment Fund industry has more or less abandoned the ESG concept, globally, which they now see as "irrelevant". Europe was the last bastion and even that is now dwindling away. It was always just a marketing angle in reality.

Source: Ignites Europe

"Fund buyers planning to increase ESG allocations disappear: research

Selectors have grown 'disillusioned' with sustainable investing, according to Broadridge

European fund selectors intending to increase their allocations to sustainable investments have all but disappeared, new research finds, with a loss of confidence meaning investors view the products with "pragmatic indifference".

The proportion of professional fund buyers planning to increase their investment in environmental, social and governance-related funds fell from a peak of 37 per cent in early 2021 to 3 per cent by late 2024, but has dried up entirely in the second quarter of 2025.

The analysis subtracts the number of selectors with negative allocation intentions from those with positive intentions to create a net figure. The findings are based on interviews carried out by Broadridge with around 800 wholesale and retail fund selectors across 10 European markets.

Ralph Williams, director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa insights at Broadridge, said: "ESG was once the undisputed darling of European fund selectors.

"But today, it's vanishing fast from both portfolios and product pipelines."

He said that while previous increases in ESG allocations had left "less room for increases today", this reason was "not the main driver" of the decline in planned investments.

Instead the decline in appetite reflected growing "disillusionment" with sustainable products.

The decline in sentiment is also reflected in European fund flows.

Net flows for funds with sustainability, impact or ESG goals as a primary focus of their investment objective or strategy peaked in 2021, totalling €416bn, according to Broadridge data.

However, flows have since dropped in each succeeding year and have suffered net redemptions totalling €8bn over the first five months of 2025.

Williams said "opportunistic" investors in sustainable funds had been the first to leave "when performance soured", but he added that "pragmatic" and "conviction" buyers had previously stayed invested "to a degree".

"For [pragmatic fund buyers], ESG was less about values and more about client demand, reputational management and regulatory alignment….

"They didn't expect perfection, but they did expect progress: a clear regulatory roadmap, credible standards, improved data and transparency from asset managers.

"Over time, they've felt let down on all fronts."

European fund buyers were retreating to a position of "pragmatic indifference", rather than to "anti-ESG sentiment", he added."

The kicker:

"[But] distributors no longer see ESG as broken but fixable; they see it as irrelevant."

Real assets and private markets. The things they invested in before ESG Investing became the latest fad.

"The research also shows that changing fund selector sentiment has implications for asset managers' product development plans.

ESG had consistently ranked at the top of buyers' needs in product innovation from late 2018 until early 2024.

But this changed over the course of 2024 and ESG does not feature among selectors' top 10 product innovation needs in Broadridge's latest round of interviews in 2025.

Private markets and real assets now rank as the most in-demand products among fund buyers, the researchers find."

Spot on

There is more and more will be coming…

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Startup-Scoops-Up-Bankrupt-Northvolts-5B-European-Gigafactory-Assets.html

So, $10 billion in capitalization with at least $5 billion in direct capital investment, only a few years old, now only worth $200 million.

The "green energy" scam in a nutshell.

not as costly as gas and other sources.
all energy generation requires subsidy, it's just you aren't told about it, you are paying twice and always have been.