Posted on 07/06/2009 7:33:47 AM PDT by Scythian
The boys in green are coming as the Environment Agency sets up a squad to police companies generating excessive CO2 emissions.
The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.
Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.”
(Excerpt) Read more at business.timesonline.co.uk ...
The Green Police, they come inspecting my lamps
The Green Police, they’ll have me living in camps
The Green Police, they’re coming to arrest me
Oh, no!
You know cap-and-trade ain’t cheap, and nucl’ear ain’t nice
And the e-con-o-my, I don’t think it’ll survive the night,
THE NIGHT...
Cause they’re waiting for me,
They’re coming for me
Every single day
They’re driving me insane
Those cops inside my drain...
(with apologies to Cheap Trick)
Don’t turn around, oh oh
Der Kommissar’s in town, oh oh
You’re in his eye
And you’ll know why
The more you live
The faster you will die
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
Hear the children
Don’t turn around, oh oh
Der Kommissar’s in town, oh oh
He’s got the power
And you’re so weak
And your frustration will not let you speak
-Falco
Falco, gone but not forgotten!
(otherwise he likely would be the next Austrian
celebrity to get himself elected Governor of Caleefohrrniah)
the last time I was in Michigan, the local six-o-clock news was covering some grad students who were busting open trash bags on the curb, auditing them for recyclables. A beaming young woman whom they interviewed excitedly told the reporter that she could not wait until the day she had actual enforcement powers, and could write the homeowner a ticket for having the wrong materials in their trash.
All es klar, herr Kommisar?
S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/MN09183NV8.DTL&tsp=1
Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine.
Wonder how many of the 6,000 will remain ?
Imagine drive by green Nazis using IR cameras looking for homes “wasting energy” and slapping the owners with fines or laws mandating that home owners selling their homes install energy efficient appliance. Coming soon to the People’s Republic of Obamastan.
they’ve already had that experience in the UK, when Her Majesty’s Government would send trucks around to scan the aether for unlicensed TV sets
I’m turning you in ...
The Snoopscolds strike agin.
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