UP and DOWN

The oil price is up - and down; the £ is down. Temperatures are up in Canada to record levels for May and wildfires have broken out in Alberta, leading to the evacuation of some 80,000 residents from the town of Fort MacMurray.  In Nevada the train goes up, the train goes down. It's called advanced rail energy storage. Solar Impulse 2, the electric aeroplane, flew up from Mountain View, California, at dawn last Monday and came down 16 hours later to land in Goodyear, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, exactly as planned. Smart meters for all by 2020, but not if Stop Smart Meters can help it. They think they know what the energy companies are up to. And they won't bring bills down.  Also in this episode, Would Brexit damage the environment? Britain Stronger in Europe, the body leading the Remain campaign presents 10 green reasons for staying in. Sir David Mackay, author of SEWTHA, died last month aged only 48. The energy debate continues. But first, Hinkley C, the planned nuclear power station which is the cornerstone of the UK government's energy policy, is in the news again. And it's not good news.