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Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 29, 2024, 6:42 pm

Fury as SNP spend £3.5m installing heat pumps in building valued at just £275k in 'lunatic' scheme

The SNP's own Fergus Ewing branded the spend 'utterly ludicrous' as he demanded the First Minister halt the heat pump scheme

ByJohn Ferguson Mark Connor
15:41, 28 APR 2024

The Scottish Government has spent £3.5million “decarbonising” a property valued at just £275,000. The tax-funded upgrade electric saw heat pumps fitted and insulation improved at Elgin’s small procurator fiscal’s office where gas bills are an average of £2500 a year.

The refurbishment, which will take 1,000 years to recoup in energy savings, was ordered by the Crown Office despite the cost engulfing the value of the premises. SNP MSP Fergus Ewing said he was horrified and demanded the First Minister call a halt to similar plans for public buildings.

He said: “It beggars belief anyone would spend £3.5million doing up an old tenement worth only £275,000. That’s 13 times the value of the property. This shows Scotland cannot afford to decarbonise its public buildings and private flat owners can’t afford it either...

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/fury-snp-spend-35m-installing-32689351?int_source=nba

Re: Eco Heat Pump classic...

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 29, 2024, 6:46 pm, in reply to "Eco Heat Pump classic..."

Will its value go up now that the pump is in, just in time for it to be sold to a private buyer...?

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Re: Eco Heat Pump classic...

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 29, 2024, 7:03 pm, in reply to "Re: Eco Heat Pump classic..."

"Will its value go up now that the pump is in, just in time for it to be sold to a private buyer...?"

Dunno... it looks like that kind of scam but it's a "Crown Office/Procurator Fiscal" cosy toes production...

I really have no idea who passed this bullshit... but it does highlight the wishful thinking lunacy of the whole program which the SNP/Greens have been mooting for everyone in Scotland: where a huge percentage of the housing stock is quite clearly simply too old or otherwise unsuitable for heat pumps.

It underlined the lack of any kind of "Green" realism about what can & should be done... But it doesn't stop the politicians legislating bans and prohibitions on everything else for the sake of our imaginary future...

Re: Eco Heat Pump classic...

I forgot the corollary, who hose to spend the money with that supplier...?

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Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: Eco Heat Pump classic...

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 29, 2024, 10:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Eco Heat Pump classic..."

I forgot the corollary, who hose to spend the money with that supplier...?

It doesn't really matter. Details. Just clear corruption by our elite using the green ticket in this case, or identity politics in other cases, or .. fill in the blanks. I've seen this on a larger scale regarding the 'energy transition'. It's all bollox. Nevertheless, this is a very nice, in your face, example of how the money is being wasted on climate change by our elite. Never mind the effing forever wars. Grrr

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