Treasury kills off study into resource depletion

[clv101]

Treasury kills off study into resource depletion. Refusal to even study something is worst kind of dumb:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bc37804-8298 ... abdc0.html
It's behind pay wall - but can be accessed with free account.

[Blue Peter]

The major problem for the Treasury seemed to be that it shouldn't say anything about UK growth prospects. I take the implication that the Treasury are worried that it would imply less growth in the UK, and thus might be bad. Can it be read another way?

Grasping at straws, one might say that this worry implies that the Treasury already know that it will be bad for the UK i.e. that some such study has already been done. Not that one can see much concomitant policy action, other than trying to strengthen the feudal nature of our state.


Peter.

[clv101]

I think you're right. Prof. David MacKay had the same issue with the Carbon Pathways calculator. The Treasury didn't let him include no/negative growth scenarios. He wasn't allowed to meet the carbon targets by simply shrinking the economy.

[Pepperman]

It's behind pay wall - but can be accessed with free account.

For future reference with the FT you just need to Google the article headline and FT and it'll let you through without an account.

[biffvernon]

Ooops, so it does. But I had to open the Google preview and click on that.

Seems the leaked e-mails came via Friends of the Earth but they don't seem to have a story of their own on the FoE website.

Jeremy Leggett has picked it up http://www.jeremyleggett.net/2013/03/tr ... ion-study/