Fracking is answer to our energy problems

ALL those protesters selfishly blocking roads such as the M25 ain’t seen nothing yet, for as the green and woke agendas ‘kickin’, 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 brown-outs and black-outs.

That is, unless government takes immediate action. I have been writing and warning about this dreadful scenario for over a decade, and indeed have written a book entitled 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 USA – 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 are far cleaner than their coalfired cousins.

The UK has the ability to be self-sufficient 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.

Dave Haskell Brithdir, Cardigan