- Britain currently supports the fossil fuel industry through tax breaks and subsidies for exploration and research and development to the tune of £10 billion a year, according to latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Jim Ratcliffe, richest person in UK in 2018, who’s enormous wealth has been built on a combination of aggressive lobbying, high risk investments, highly polluting industries, tax dodging and union-busting. an outspoken supporter of Brexit, who’s company INEOS currently faces legal challenge over plans for plastics plant in Antwerp Project that does not meet EU’s requirement for environmental impact assessment.
- Technologies being subsidised to deal with food waste, like anaerobic digestion, require the growth of extra bioenergy crops to work. Bioenergy crops, such as maize, require high fertiliser use and are some of the most damaging to our soils. If beans, pulses and peas were grown for human consumption on the land area the biogas industry aspires to use for AD crops, this would produce enough food for over 1 million people – including roughly 30% of their recommended protein for a year.
Energy subsidies in the UK mean that edible food is being turned into biogas rather than family meals.