Former chairman of Northern Rock and Conservative peer Viscount Matt Ridley has been accused of lobbying the UK government on behalf of the coal industry despite denials to the contrary. Skyonics’s technology turns CO2 emissions from power, cement and industrial plants into chemicals including baking soda and hydrochloric acid and has received a $25m US government grant. The Daily Telegraph reported that Lord Ridley, who is a former chair of the House of Lords committee investigating climate change, was paid £25,000 by British American Tobacco (BAT) in 2009 for his work as an The peer, who is on the advisory council of climate-sceptic think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation, also expressed hostility to wind power in the email.
Former chairman of Northern Rock and Conservative peer Viscount Matt Ridley has been accused of lobbying the UK government on behalf of the coal industry despite denials to the contrary. The Daily Telegraph reported that Lord Ridley, who is a former chair of the House of Lords committee investigating climate change, was paid £25,000 by British American Tobacco (BAT) in 2009 for his work as an The peer, who is on the advisory council of climate-sceptic think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation, also expressed hostility to wind power in the email.