We have enough coal so let’s just use it
AS the energy crisis deepens the ordinary people of Britain are now paying the price of successive administrations paying attention to the adolescents and obsessives of the green movement, in preference to ensuring that we have enough power to meet all our requirements.
This country pioneered atomic energy, yet we now supposedly must rely on foreign expertise in order to revive the sector, fracking has liberated the USA from dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but we allow extremists to prevent the exploitation of our own similar resources, while the North Sea can still supply enough gas if we continue to develop the fields available.
In addition, we have reserves of coal which would last for decades, if not centuries.
We have neglected to store sufficient reserves of gas to meet emergency demands, leaving vast facilities totally unused.
Sensible people know that in the long term we must switch to solutions which do not rely on finite sources, and that nuclear fusion, sun and indeed tidal power, can provide these, but instead we pretend that unreliable windmills can substitute for the fossil fuels upon which we must rely.
The greens are on the retreat worldwide, as nations turn nuclear fission stations back on, seek new means of obtaining gas and oil, and even begin to restore coal mines, yet still our elites, in hock to ludicrous theories about climate change, refuse to do the same.
As the chickens come home to roost it is becoming ever clearer that to give support to those who would
rather we retreated to the caves than use the resources available has been a disaster, and the new Prime Minister would be well advised to take immediate steps to place the needs of the public above the desires of a small, vociferous group of those determined to have their own way, whatever the cost.
Colin Bullen
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