Wednesday 28 July 2021

The Queen's Gambit

The UK Queen is one of the biggest landowners in Scotland. Her lawyers used the obscure Queen's Consent device, to get early sight of a proposed change to Scottish law. They consequently lobbied ministers to have the Queen excluded from legislation, designed to cut carbon emissions from properties (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption ). As a result, the Queen is the only person in the country not required to facilitate the construction of pipelines on her property to heat buildings using renewable energy. It's not as if she couldn't afford to have the work done! The decision seems short-sighted and wrong.

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