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Brit Bureaucrats to Switch Off Street Lights to “Reduce CO2 Emissions”
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UK Telegraph
February 11, 2008
Street lights in suburban areas are to be switched off after midnight as part of council plans to save energy.
A series of trial blackouts will be carried out over the next few weeks by local authorities in the Home Counties, Hampshire and Essex among others.
Buckinghamshire council is reported to be switching off more than 1,700 lights along 25 miles of road in an attempt to meet energy targets.
It says the scheme will save £100,000 and reduce CO2 emissions by nearly 600 tons a year.
If the trials are successful, all street lamps across the country could be turned off between midnight and 5am.
Other areas taking part in the scheme include Maldon and Uttlesford in Essex, while parts of Hampshire have already carried out pilots.
Residents’ groups, police organisations and motoring groups have expressed fear that the darkness could cause increases in crime and road traffic accidents.
A spokesman for the Local Government Association said: “The councils are considering these schemes to both reduce their energy budget and cut down on emissions.
“Areas where street lights will be turned off will be on routes there is little need for them.”
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February 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
well then, this obviously means a reduction in lighting costs, which means a reduction in council tax and rebates all round for every household, right? …… I won´t hold my breath.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Good thing less lights, more stars to see, let them shine for the glory of mankind.
PEACE
February 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Please Repost this Article as “Queen to send British Middle Class back to 1700s Serfdom in Two Weeks – Fatal Consequences to Come!” and send it to your friends and family.
I did!
Brian
February 11th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
The British government is so full of crap! (its is a knowledgeable statement not an emotional one)
Every day the media (in London papers) says “veganism and vegetarianism saves the planet” and people buy that!
Now they turn the lights off for a city after 12.00 (when only the criminals are out).
If that’s not enough, the price of fuel is set to rise by another 2p due to extra taxes (not the supposed fuel shortages which dominates the media)… and again the comment is “more taxes means less people will drive and that will save the environment”
As far as I’m concerned, the government is appealing to the uneducated masses (which have been brainwashed by the media into believing that the world is going to end tomorrow)
Samo
February 11th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I think it’s important to target the general public, first. It’s because of the common folk and their wanton sexual lust and lack of sex education that has allowed for uncontrolled growth in the population. We wouldn’t need all this energy if the population was curbed. Stalin saved so much more than 600 tons of CO2 emissions with population control.
The math is simple. The more people you have the more it costs to provide public utilities for a better life than their forefathers.
Initiate a moratorium on immigration and create rolling blackouts. Who knows the increase in crime and fear may have a positive effect on global warming more than originally intended.
созиализм для всегда
February 11th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Co hysteria bullshit!
February 11th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
not buying this. something is amiss. keeping people in the dark?
February 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
GREAT
FOR THE ROBBERS AND THIEVES
ISNT THAT WHY THEY PUT THE LIGHTS UP IN THE FIRST PLACE.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
i agree with the Lights out program MAN CREATED LIGHT i mean fake lights that destroy the Beauty of the NIGHT SKY
Fake Light is UnNatral and Contributes to Criminal activity in what i call Ambient Light crimes
A thief needs to be able to see befor he or she can steal if darkness there the thif will be hard pressed to evan see where they GO
Ambient Light aka Light pollution provides criminals enuf light to go around Killing stealing and dealing
a Thief must covet and to covet he must see what he is going to take and Light is needed take away tha Light and that thif will not know where they go and could evan step off a clif and not know it intill the sudden stop at the bottom
Take the test Go to a really dark place like Big bend national park when there is NO moon and wait intill 2 hours after sunset or 2 hours befor sunrise and with no lights try to navigate the Hiking trails i garentee you will fail and will fall
as i did evan with my eyes Fully adjusted to the Milky ways Light
bum hum
I would like to think of it as Save the NIGHT SKY let Night be night and let day be day
I ejoy being able to see the Fullness of the milky way
Ambient Light is a Criminals Best friend
February 11th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Truth
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKEING ?
February 12th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Well gosh, I hope thieves never hear about those things, what are they called?? Oh, yes! FLASHLIGHTS!
February 12th, 2008 at 2:04 am
As a British citizen, I find this ridiculous. When will everyone wake and realize they are being taken for a ride. Looking at it another way. It could be a way of bring martial law a step closer. Lets face it. Many law abiding people will be held indoors by this. Global Warming, the scam of the century
February 12th, 2008 at 2:34 am
All part of the plan to introduce martial law! The blackout will cause a huge increase in burglaries and violent crime, which will give THEM the excuse to introduce martial law.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:09 am
I agree with the fact that the results of this turning in to an excuse for martial laws. how ever they can always find a way to introduce martial law, just this way they will straight scare s into it…what ever happened to ower goverment takeing care of its people….?
we pay them taxs to protect us but yet were dose it go their big house, pressed suites, the big flash car…the celebritie life style…?
peace and respect
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February 12th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Look at the CIA factbook as of 2007 for the UK.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uk.html#Econ
.and these items in particular.
“Current account balance:
$-111 billion (2007 est.)”
“Debt – external:
$10.45 trillion (30 June 2007)”
“revenues: $1.155 trillion
expenditures: $1.237 trillion (2007 est.)”
I hope this gives you a clear enough message about the trouble we’re really in,
February 12th, 2008 at 7:38 am
This goofy plan will obviously cause an increase in crime, which under no circumstance will be associated with the lights being off. The rise in crime will in turn be used as an excuse for more police power and control.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:59 am
its also a way of getting people used to a curfue routine. there WILL be an increase in crime rate, done mainly by people who are hired to do so, and as a result there will be night vision/heat sensing cameras placed everywhere to “protect” people, and if you leave your house during the hours when the street lights are off, you will be arrested as a “suspected criminal”. MAKE NO MISTAKE – they will eventually turn off the street lights EVERYWHERE
February 12th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Who came up with this idea anyway..
February 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
We (British people) are a beaten people, The apathy that i witness every time I try to talk to people about global warming and the scam that is being foisted upon the western world is to be quite honest scary. People just seem to have lost the capacity to question anything they see on the news, makes no difference what news channel you watch. We all know that although this is only a trial as with most of these trials it will be adopted nationwide, all the local councils will be falling over themselves to tell us that it’s a necessity to save the planet all the while increasing the amount we pay in taxes again using global warming as the reason we have to pay more for a worsening service which will result in a rise in crime and anti social behaviour, funny that considering the government are forever coming up with ideas to combat these problems (maybe I’m just cynical)
February 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Well, I have to admit, as dismal as this new ‘potential’ legislature sounds, I had to laugh when I read the headline. I mean c’mon, its just straight up ridiculous. Even if global warming wasnt disorted with the pseudo facts of the reeking elite, im sure there would be a much better and more efficient way of conserving energy. Susee Squeegee is right, crime will rise, and the ‘po’ will justify heat cameras and night time arrests of anyone who happens to be straggling outdoors during these blackout hours. So the amount of money britain thinks its saving will end up being re-directed into law enforcement and the justice system (whats left of it.) What does the power companies or the government care of cost? The citizenry pay for their power, and they appearently pay for public power with taxes. The government runs off of the sweat dripping from the back of the plebian, so if the Brits want to save cash, it would then be equally justifiable to lower the tax that pays for public power. Then they’d really be saving. As I see it, the saved money will get diverted to something that has absolutely no benefit for the british people.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I would find this so entirely hillarious if I didn’t know it to be true and coming to the United States. Something that should be considered here that I haven’t read yet. Isn’t Britain one of the most surveyed populations, with video cameras on every corner? Is that not supposedly “for the security and safety of the English people”? If that were true, why in the hell would they want to make the streets darkened so that criminals and politicians can run out of control and victimize the people? Do they not push for more police and more powers to the state for the safety of the defensless people? At the same time they want to take away the first defense of being able to see danger? The entire world has gone nuts!
February 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
So!! Will all tax paying citizens recieve a rebate from the councils who save money….uuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm
February 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
All Brit Bureaucrats have had their lights turned off for a long time!
March 12th, 2008 at 11:45 am
If they turn the lights off in my street not only will I demand a reduction of our over priced council tax, I will also buy some flood lights and set them up. Sorry for the emissions lol.
What good is no street lighting doing, really?
Muggings up
Vandalism up
Street deals up
Theft up