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Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets (UK)
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 9:00PM BST 27 Oct 2012 | By Claire Duffin

Posted on 10/28/2012 10:23:32 AM PDT by dennisw

Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets Huge swathes of Britain are being plunged into darkness as more and more streetlights are switched off by councils and roads authorities.

Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emission targets. The switch-off begins as early as 9pm.

They are making the move despite concerns from safety campaigners and the police that it would lead to an increase in road accidents and crime.

3,080 miles of motorways and trunk roads in England are now completely unlit;

a further 47 miles of motorway now have no lights between midnight and 5am, including one of Britain’s busiest stretches of the M1, between Luton and Milton Keynes;

out of 134 councils which responded to a survey, 73% said they had switched off or dimmed some lights or were planning to;

Some councils expect to save hundreds of thousands of pounds by turning off lights at night or converting them to dimmer switches.

However some councils admit they may not see savings for another four or five years because of the cost of installing new lights, dimmer switches and complex control systems.

And some councils - as well as the Highways Agency, responsible for motorways and major A roads - say that the lights are being turned off to meet “green” targets to cut carbon emissions, by reducing electricity use.

The increasing black-out was criticised last night by safety and motoring organisations, who said the economic and environmental benefits were being over-stated and warned that less street lighting would lead to more accidents and more crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ungland

1 posted on 10/28/2012 10:23:36 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

A worthy project for the retard’s (Anne Coulter called him) second term. Shut off Federal Highway funds to states who don’t put out light to meet some green emissions bullcrap


2 posted on 10/28/2012 10:25:56 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: dennisw

So what if a bunch of Humans die, we are saving the planet and besides humans are the enemy of the planet earth, all they do is consume the vital resources for their own self interest without regard to the long term effects on Planet Earth. We will Destroy humanity in an effort to save the planet, get over it, find a cave to hide in.


3 posted on 10/28/2012 10:29:32 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: dennisw
"The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time"
-- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
4 posted on 10/28/2012 10:30:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

...should be a good opportunity to sell more solar-powered flashlights...


5 posted on 10/28/2012 10:33:01 AM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: dennisw

Welcome the the neo-darkages!


6 posted on 10/28/2012 10:33:33 AM PDT by trapped_in_LA
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To: dennisw

Me thinks the UK has too many former telephone sanitizers in management positions...


7 posted on 10/28/2012 10:38:07 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: dennisw
From near the end of Atlas Shrugged. (And if you were worried about a spoiler you should have read the book by now anyway.)

The plane was above the peaks of the skyscrapers when suddenly, with the abruptness of a shudder, as if the ground had parted to engulf it, the city disappeared from the face of the earth. It took them a moment to realize that the panic had reached the power stations—and that the lights of New York had gone out.

Dagny gasped. "Don't look down!" Galt ordered sharply.

...snip...

He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."

Well, it's not New York yet, but it's getting there.
8 posted on 10/28/2012 10:38:32 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: dennisw
From near the end of Atlas Shrugged. (And if you were worried about a spoiler you should have read the book by now anyway.)

The plane was above the peaks of the skyscrapers when suddenly, with the abruptness of a shudder, as if the ground had parted to engulf it, the city disappeared from the face of the earth. It took them a moment to realize that the panic had reached the power stations—and that the lights of New York had gone out.

Dagny gasped. "Don't look down!" Galt ordered sharply.

...snip...

He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."

Well, it's not New York yet, but it's getting there.
9 posted on 10/28/2012 10:38:50 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: trapped_in_LA

“Humanity” needs a nuclear reflash.


10 posted on 10/28/2012 10:45:33 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: dennisw

England returns to the Dark Ages.


11 posted on 10/28/2012 10:45:39 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: dennisw

What stupidity.


12 posted on 10/28/2012 10:58:20 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: dennisw

this is stupid


13 posted on 10/28/2012 11:00:04 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: eyeamok

***...all they do is consume the vital resources for their own self interest without regard to the long term effects on Planet Earth.****

Reminds me of a scene in the movie BECKET.
King Henry and Becket are caught in a rainstorm and Henry goes into a peasant hovel demanding fire and warmth.

Becket: “You will find no fire here sire.”
Henry: “And why is that!”
Becket: “Each hovel is allowed two measures of firewood a year. One stick more and they are hanged.”

Henry: “My edict?”
Becket: “Your edict sire.”

Yessire, in the future each family will only be allowed so two KW of electricity a year! One watt more and they will be hanged.


14 posted on 10/28/2012 11:08:30 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dennisw
Ungland...
15 posted on 10/28/2012 11:10:10 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Timber Rattler

***England returns to the Dark Ages.***

That is because Mohammed never had electricity. Therefore electricity is un-Islamic and must be destroyed.


16 posted on 10/28/2012 11:11:07 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dennisw

Think of all the money we’d save if 90% of us committed suicide and the elite remainder moved into caves. That would be the ultimate in “sustainability.”

The world I grew up in a few short decades ago celebrated true industrial progress and the worldly benefits we all received from progress. Now the leftists are celebrating backwardness and darkness. The whole world is insane.


17 posted on 10/28/2012 11:16:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dennisw

“A worthy project for the retard’s (Anne Coulter called him) second term.”

Coulter was wrong to use that label — it does our side more harm than good.


18 posted on 10/28/2012 11:17:54 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Calvin Locke

Along with hairdressers, tv producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards...


19 posted on 10/28/2012 11:15:44 PM PDT by SargeK
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