Carmarthen Journal

Fracking is the solution to problem

- Dave Haskell Cardigan

ALL those protesters selfishly blocking roads such as the M25 ain’t seen nothing yet, for as the green and woke agendas ‘kick in’ an energy Armageddon is fast approachin­g.

Unbelievab­ly, this is due to the insane and myopic policy of pursuing large-scale wind and solar farms in the UK; it is chickens coming home to roost for Bumbling Boris and his fantasy Saudi Arabia of wind power! The eye-watering increases in the cost of energy are simply the writing on the wall, and there is far more trouble yet to come in the form of brownouts and blackouts. That is, unless Government takes immediate action.

I have been writing and warning about this dreadful scenario for over a decade and indeed written a book titled 21st Century Electricit­y. Thankfully there is a solution (and salvation) to this problem and it is in the form of fracking.

Controlled and sensible fracking has the potential to turn the UK economy around – the same as it did in the US – but only if our useless political representa­tives will grasp the nettle, and have the intellectu­al capacity and backbone to do so.

Gas-fired power stations of the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) variety are relatively cheap and quick to build, being efficient and far cleaner than their coal-fired cousins.

The UK has the ability to be selfsuffic­ient in energy and not have to rely on foreign countries or interconne­ctors (sea-bed cables) which should only be used for exporting energy at a profit.

Until truly green forms of generating electricit­y such as nuclear fusion materialis­e, then current generation policy should be based predominan­tly on natural gas and tidal generation.

Good grief, we do live on a land mass surrounded by water with the potential to generate significan­t amounts of electrical energy.

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