DerivedEnvironment, Land and Settlement
Energy Policy: General Doctrine
Energy policy should be judged by reliability, strategic resilience, affordability, environmental stewardship and long-term human welfare rather than loyalty to one technology.
Policy catalogueEnvironment, Land and Settlement
DerivedRenewable Energy
Renewable energy should be supported where technically sound, economically reasonable and compatible with landscapes, communities and grid reliability.
Position
Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and other sources are tools rather than moral ends and should be assessed according to local conditions.
Policy
- Permit and support renewable generation where it makes economic and environmental sense.
- Protect historic landscapes and ecologically sensitive areas from poorly planned industrial development.
- Avoid unnecessary destruction of productive farmland for low-density energy projects.
- Account honestly for storage, transmission and backup requirements.
- Support local and community energy ownership where viable.
- Do not mandate deployment merely to meet numerical targets without regard to reliability and local cost.
Implementation note
Implementation note
This follows the manifesto's stewardship and human-scale principles but is not explicitly specified there.
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Related positions
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Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power may be permitted and supported where it is safe, reliable, strategically useful and environmentally responsible.
- DerivedEnvironment, Land and Settlement
Fossil Fuels
Fossil fuels should not be prohibited ideologically irrespective of their strategic or economic function, but unnecessary pollution and avoidable dependency should be reduced.
- Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life
Architecture and Historic Preservation
Public architecture should respect human scale, local materials and regional tradition, and historic fabric should be preserved wherever reasonably possible.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.