Former chairman of Northern Rock and Druridge Bay peer Lord Bourne has been accused of lobbying the UK government on behalf of the coal industry despite denials to the contrary. Ridley’s correspondence with Bourne included an email that the company had sent to Ridley, thanking him for a meeting at the House of Lords and for his “navigational advice”. An email from Lord Bourne to Energy Minister Ridley in April suggested a UK -based company experimenting with turning CO2 emissions into chemical feed stocks could be of interest to the Department of Energy and Climate Change . 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 Druridge Bay peer Lord Bourne has been accused of lobbying the UK government on behalf of the coal industry despite denials to the contrary. An email from Lord Bourne to Energy Minister Ridley in April suggested a UK -based company experimenting with turning CO2 emissions into chemical feed stocks could be of interest to the Department of Energy and Climate Change . 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.