{"id":5904,"date":"2018-06-09T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:37:27","slug":"its-been-a-week-of-white-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strettonclimatecare.org.uk\/2018\/06\/its-been-a-week-of-white-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been a Week of White Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Leggett, former CEO of Solar Century and now Chair of the charity Solar Aid, has put together an <a href=\"https:\/\/jeremyleggett.net\/2018\/06\/05\/the-week-of-the-white-elephants-the-uk-us-and-canadian-governments-all-tried-to-bail-out-uneconomic-and-or-stranded-fossil-fuel-and-nuclear-projects\/\">intriguing slideshow <\/a>of the first few days of June, showing we&#8217;re still collectively a bit bonkers. He describes it as &#8216;A short true-story-of-the-day, in pictures and charts, relaying almost incomprehensible political gymnastics by three governments in one week: two of which profess to be champions of climate-change action&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We particularly like slide 11&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeremyleggett.net\/2018\/06\/05\/the-week-of-the-white-elephants-the-uk-us-and-canadian-governments-all-tried-to-bail-out-uneconomic-and-or-stranded-fossil-fuel-and-nuclear-projects\/\">Click here to view<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jeremy Leggett, former CEO of Solar Century and now Chair of the charity Solar Aid, has put together an intriguing slideshow of the first few days of June, showing we&#8217;re still collectively a bit bonkers. 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