look at what it is like to take over a long running family business. time now to get down to business. we begin with energy. it will be clean and safe and power 1.8 million homes in the north of england and the midlands. that is the plan presented by the uk government and the netherlands who have announced the world s largest multiuse electricity powerline built under the north sea. the will connect the uk in the netherlands with offshore wind farms providing energy to britain aiming to reduce household bills. this announcement comes at the start of the second north sea summit which kicks off today in belgium, the founding countries are belgium, denmark and the netherlands will be joined by france, uk ireland norway and luxembourg and the largest ever coalition around energy in the northeast off let s talk to jess ralston head of energy at the energy and climate intelligence unit. first of all, uk government is saying it s the s largest of its kind, powerline is delivering c
languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
construction here manufacture and you go back and ask all the people who grew up in this beautiful place what they d rather have. do they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have? i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying, i would rather have a coal plant. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad was a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer. but my dad was in sales. and there was no work, so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home, when you take the trolly in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenues, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town, where the scrantons and other good decent people live there was a you would go buy a wall that my recollection
Offshore wind turbines in the North Sea will power around 12,000 Vodafone cellular network towers across Germany under a new deal that the mobile provider struck with German energy firm RWE. Vodafone operates a total of about 26,000 towers in the country. The offshore wind farm, named Kaskasi, is to supply a total of 250 gigawatt hours per year beginning in 2026, the two companies announced in Dusseldorf on Friday. The electricity supply contract has a term of 10 years. In return, Vodafone has i