and the environment, with glaciers rapidly melting. but opponents had argued the measures would push up energy prices. under the plans, more than 3.5 billion dollars will be invested to help households and businesses switch away from oil and gas to renewable sources. scotland s former first minister, nicola sturgeon, says she s certain she s done nothing wrong , after being questioned by police investigating her party s finances. speaking publicly for the first time since she was arrested and released without charge last weekend, ms sturgeon said she would return to the scottish parliament on monday. here she is speaking outside her house. you know i can t say very much just now. what i will say is. reiterate the statement i issued last sunday. i am certain that i have done nothing wrong. i intend to be back in parliament in the early part of the week. i ll make myself available for questions then. 0bviously, within the constraints that i m referring to right now. for now, i intend to
she omits things like reset with russia and ben ghazi. no mention of benghazi. well, if you are in columbia, send us those tips. south carolina top accountant went pictures within the accounting for dummies book quits after committing a massive 3.5 billion dollars accounting error, i think this guy should be celebrated, basically what you expect from government officials these days, i wish he would send a copy of accounting for idiots to everybody in washington, that might be the first step in fixing the problem acknowledging the problem and the problem is not a tax problem, it s a spending problem and idiot problem or you have people who keep printing money and spending money they don t have. to keep take a picture with the book before or after?
evolution. if you thought matt would be acceptable, think again. the florida department of education recently rejected 54 math textbooks because they allude to topics like climate change uncritical race theory. it goes without saying that sex education won t make the gray because of the don t say gay law. prohibits discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity and the lower grades. just about the only schooling the does is vocational education. the governor has invested more than 3.5 billion dollars in workforce training initiatives since 2019. don t got me, wrong technical education is extremely important. but on its own, it is incomplete. wvbt boynton one-sided education must not simply teach work, it must teach life.
let s return to the results, and take a closer look at the figures shell released this morning. it said its adjusted earnings had more than doubled to $39.9 billion. this the company said it expected to pay an additional $2.3 billion in tax on its 2022 earnings as a result of the eu s windfall tax, and the uk s energy profits levy. it returned $26 billion to shareholders in 2022, through share buy backs and dividends. it plans to spend a further $4 billion buying back its own stock in the next three months. buying back shares is a way of increasing their value in the market. but the company invested only 3.5 billion dollars on renewables and low carbon technologies in the last year. we re joined now by tessa khan, and environmental lawyer and director of uplift. thank you for your time today. we have in the uk government one of the reasons for not taxing the oil and
bp has posted bumper profits for the second quarter of the year it is the second highest quarterly profit in bps history: 8.45 billion dollars three times what they posted lastjuly. on top of 6.3 billion dollars in profit in the first quarter of the year. the argument goes that aside from paying more in tax, the company is going to invest that profit in british jobs and low carbon energy. but emily gosden. energy editor for the times says so far they have spent 3.5 billion dollars this quarter on a share buy back scheme. a billion dollars more than it plans to spend this entire year on renewable alternatives. in fact so far it s only spent 361 million dollars on those cleaner solutions. and all of this on the back of new forecasts out today on what the cost of heating your home will be this winter. the average price cap will rise from £1138 in april last year to £3358 in october, and £3730 by the summer of 2023. which, miles, is going to leave millions of people in fuel poverty?