EU Regulations, LabCon Neglect, Will Cause Power Crisis after 2010, warns Private Eye Founder
Britain faces a severe energy crisis within the next seven years when it stands to lose 40 per cent of its electricity-generating capacity thanks to decades of neglect by successive governments and a “devastating impact of a directive from Brussels”, Private Eye founder Christopher Booker has warned.
Writing in his column in the Daily Mail, Booker says Britain is about to see 17 of its major power stations forced to close, leaving a massive shortfall.
“Even after 2010, the experts say our power stations cannot be guaranteed to provide us with a continuous supply, meaning that we face the possibility of power cuts far worse than those which recently - largely unreported - blacking out half-a-million homes,” he wrote.
“By 2015, when the power stations which meet two-fifths of our current electricity needs have gone out of business, we could be facing the most serious disruption to our power supplies since the ‘three-day week’ of the 1970s. But the impact of such power cuts on the Britain of today would be far more damaging than they were in the time of Edward Heath 35 years ago.”
“Compared with then, our dependence on continuous electricity supplies is infinitely greater - thanks, above all, to our reliance on computers. We are no longer talking just about factories shutting down or lighting our homes with candles. Without computers, our entire economy would grind to a halt.”
“Scarcely an office, shop, bank or hospital in the land would be able to function. Our railway system would be immobilised. Road traffic would be in chaos as traffic lights ceased to operate and petrol stations closed down. “
“Yet this is the scale of the catastrophe which may be facing us, thanks to the failure of government to give Britain a proper energy policy. Scaremongering? Just look at the hard facts. At the moment, to meet Britain’s peak electricity demand, our power stations need to provide a minimum 56 gigawatts (GW) of capacity.”
“Ten gigawatts, nearly a fifth, comes from our ageing nuclear power stations, all but one of which are so old that over the next few years they will have reached the end of their useful working life.”
“On top of that, however, we shall also have to shut down nine more major power stations - six coal-fired, three oil-fired - forced to close by the crippling cost of complying with an EU anti-pollution law, the so- called Large Combustion Plants directive.”
“This will take out another 13GW of capacity, bringing the total shortfall to 22GW - a staggering 40 per cent of the 56GW we have today.”
“Part of the cause of this crisis was that, for more than two decades, we went for gas-fired power stations, in the days when we still had abundant supplies of cheap gas from the North Sea. But that is fast running out. Within 12 years, we shall have to import 80 per cent of our gas, at a time when world prices are soaring - and it would be folly to become over-dependent for our energy on countries as politically unreliable as Mr Putin’s Russia, where gas is produced.”
“Building new coal-fired stations might have made more sense if we hadn’t closed down most of our own coal industry, and if this didn’t now involve the colossal extra costs imposed by the new EU rules.”
“As we saw from the recent response to a proposed new coal-fired plant in Kent, any mention of coal-burning has the green lobby screaming up the wall.”
“By far the most sensible way to try to fill the gap would be to build a new generation of nuclear power stations. There are only a handful of companies equipped to build these nuclear power plants, and countries all over the world are queuing up to place their own orders.
“Until October 2006, the British Government itself owned one such firm, Westinghouse, but in an act of supreme folly we sold it to Toshiba in Japan for a knockdown £2.8 billion - and it has 19 new orders on its books already. “
“Our best hope, it seems, is the state-owned French company EDF, which has recently been bidding to buy British Energy, owner of almost all our existing nuclear power stations. “
“Yet another reason why we have allowed this mindbogglingly serious crisis to creep up on us has been the obsession of those who rule us - both in London and in Brussels - with ‘renewable’ energy.”
“Incredibly, we are ‘obliged’ by the EU, within 12 years, to generate no less than 38 per cent of our electricity from renewable sources - such as tens of thousands of wind turbines - when currently only 4 per cent comes from renewables, with wind farms providing barely 1 per cent.”
“As our Government privately recognises, we have no hope of achieving even a fraction of that target (we would anyway need to build a mass of new conventional power stations simply to supply back-up when the wind is not blowing).”
“Whichever way it is looked at, Britain is threatened by what, thanks to years of dereliction and misjudgment, has become arguably our most serious potential crisis of modern times.”
“Politically, the blame for this astounding mess lies in all directions - with the Tories, with Labour, with Brussels, with those smugly shortsighted ‘environmentalists’,” Brooker writes.
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Time to get out of the EU and stand on our own feet, and build these power stations we need.Also we want our own farmers back into full production again, and sod the rest of the world with all they idiotic idea’s.Let the BNP show how it’s done properly.
All too true - these are worrying statistics.
My Identity magazine article did point all of this out four years ago, but nothing whatsoever has been done about it since that time. The smoke-and-mirrors Labour party dictated that the people had to be kept fat, dumb and happy with consumer trinkets (so that immigration could continue apace), and so all infrastructure projects were shelved. The result is no new national projects for ten years while other nations, even in Europe, have forged ahead.
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One thing that this report does not say, is that even if we did achieve 38% of power supply from renewable sources (mainly wind), we would still be in the same mess. If we have no wind for a week, as often happens, then the nation would still grind to a halt. The Danish wind-carpet did not supply power for 52 days in 2002, and was below 10% of power supply for 18 weeks in 2003. You cannot run a technological nation on such unreliable power supplies.
Ralph
The third-rate sociology graduates who comprise the LibLabCon policy makers have been so obsessed with social engineering that they’ve forgotten about real engineering, with disastrous results for our power and transport infrastructures.
Presumably the likes of Harriet Harm-men believe that electricity comes out of a meter.
If we can’t produce enough power for the population we’ve got, why are we still importing millions of immigrants?
I was listening to an expert on energy supply the other day.He said if we were to rely on wind farms to provide our energy needs we would need an area twice the size of Wales.
The only way to become self sufficient is to commission new nuclear power stations immediately and then re-open the coalfields and by using clean coal technology we can provide energy, oil,gas etc from it.
We have about 400 years of coal underground so, by the time we have used this, new technologies ( such as nuclear fusion ) will surely have been sorted.
It is stupidity in the extreme to have such a resource and not to use it.
After the LibLabCon nation-wrecking spree is brought to a halt, it will need concerted national determination on the scale of the World War II war effort to rebuild the country.
Nuclear reactors (pressurised water reactors) have persistently shown themselves to be the cheapest and most reliable way of generating bulk electricity.
Studies conducted in the US have shown that molten salt breeder reactors will have costs comparable or lower than PWR’s. These reactors will actualy breed their own fuel from thorium. A reactor large enough to power a city the size of Birmingham will consume 500-800Kg of thorium per year, a volume small enough to fit in the back of a car. The reactors will be inherently safe and will burn all of their own long-lived radioisotopes, producing only short-lived fission products as waste. They are also easy to build, just a thin reinforced concrete shell clad with a thin layer of nickel alloy.
The nuclear vending companies (GE, Westinghouse, Areva, etc) don’t like them and have persistantly blocked their development as they gain much of their income selling manufactured nuclear fuel. As soon as we have a BNP government we can set to work rapidly building MSRs.
@Artorius.
It will be a huge effort but one in which the British Bulldogs can succeed.
I work from home as an agent for companies on the continent.I would gladly give this up and work for a decent wage in the UK to help in the rebuilding.
If we are once again a manufacturing nation we can also rebuild our wealth which has been squandered by the LibLabCon party.
“Until October 2006, the British Government itself owned one such firm, Westinghouse, but in an act of supreme folly we sold it to Toshiba in Japan for a knockdown £2.8 billion - and it has 19 new orders on its books already. “
This was treason, it is also a dead giveaway in terms of how desperate Zanu were for money, at a time when they were telling us how very economically vibrant it all was.
Antius - “As soon as we have a BNP government we can set to work rapidly building MSRs.”
My concern here is that we are going to come into power and try to set straight an economically ruined, hollowed out, country.
In these circumstances will we have the expertise and the foreign exchange available to go down this nuclear road?
It seems to me that the most obvious energy resource we will have is coal, augmented by renewables.
Traitors will work in the mines to dig us some coal and somewhat expiate their foul crimes against our people
Christopher Booker - one of the founder members of Private Eye magazine.
Private Eye magazine. Now then, Private Eye is no friend of the BNP. But it is no friend to anyone else either. Private Eye will gleefully dump on ANYONE that leaves themselves open to that. Media, politicians, government, local government, individual councillors, opposition, big business, judiciary, police, health service, transport companies …. absolutely anyone (including us note). Private Eye has no favourites.
I recommend every party member and supporter reads every issue of Private Eye. It comes out fortnightly. On many topics it’ll take you several issues to start understanding them properly - but it’s very rewarding to take the trouble.
I haven’t missed an issue since the early seventies. Even when I was abroad my wife used to buy it and post it to me. Always a good read, and better late than never.
For the last 20 years I have been saying that we should be building new nuclear plants and developing alternative fuels technologies (such as coal to oil/LPG).
Not because we needed them at the time, but because we *would* need them in the future and that if we waited until we actually needed them before acting we would likely find ourselves up a certain river without any means of propulsion!.
Added to which (as I have said elsewhere) we also needed a steady supply of orders in order to maintain the skills and industrial infrastructure to pursue these sort of projects.
We now face a situation where we simply don’t have that many people of working age with the experience and knowledge to actually build new nuclear power stations!
As a consequence we now find ourselves in an international queue for these sort of industrial resources, and some way back from the front at that!
I was listening to an expert on energy supply the other day.
He said:
“If we were to rely on wind farms to provide our energy needs we would need an area twice the size of Wales”
So they keep saying. But it would not make one iota of difference how big our wind farms were - when the wind does not blow, it does not blow, and we all go back to the Stone Age.
It has also been said that the wind always blows somewhere in the UK, but this is also nonsense. The wind data from the Met Office shows a remarkable unison in wind trends across the whole of the UK. So when the wind stops blowing, every wind farm will be effected.
Ralph
The EU insisted Bulgaria close down 2 nuclear power stations as the price for entering the EU.
It used to export electricity to the Balkans, now it can bearly cope with its own needs.
However:
Against massive EU objections Bulgaria has done a deal with the Russians and is building 4 new reactors on the Danube, whereupon it will be able to supply electricity to all its neighbours, but not Britain. Sorry!!!
Also 2 gas pipelines are being built through the country, one Russian, the other American, supplying southern Europe, but not to Britain . Sorry!!!
As regards Wheat production and the cost of bread and biscuits because of the world shortage of grain … Bulgaria had a record production of basic food stuffs this year and is exporting millions of tons to Egypt, Libya and the Far East, but none to Britain … Sorry !!!
Seems to me this tiny poverty struck Mafia currupt country of Bulgaria knows how to look after itself far better than this povety struck New Labour currupt country of Little Britain ever could.
Vote BNP.
It really is the only way.
It’s clear we need an emergency programme to renew our energy infrastructure, and it’s also obvious that energy provision needs to be in the public sector and not subject to being flogged off every five minutes to help balance the government’s books whilst providing fat profits for foreign owners. As things stand, we are getting very close to being held to ransom by private companies and foreign governments. It’s the same situation with food: there’s no reason we can’t be self-sufficient, but that’s not what the EU and international conglomerates want.
We need a government that puts the interests of its citizens above those of foreign speculators and EU ‘directives’. Such a (BNP)government needs to be in power without delay. Otherwise, the lights will be going out, and much sooner than we think.
apendragon- “it’s also obvious that energy provision needs to be in the public sector and not subject to being flogged off every five minutes to help balance the government’s books whilst providing fat profits for foreign owners.”
Very true, and then there’s petrol as well
“The UK’s financial industry watchdog has been blamed for soaring oil prices by failing to clamp down on speculation in the market.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) had “let the British people down”, said Professor Michael Greenberger, a former official at US regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
He said if the FSA stepped in to stop speculation, the price of petrol at UK pumps would fall.”
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/uk-world-news/tm_headline=fsa-blamed-for-oil-price-rise&method=full&objectid=21533146&siteid=50081-name_page.html
This is no suprise because the FSA have already let the British people down. Supposedly the lead body in Brown’s cracked “regulatory” framework(along with the BOE and Treasury) their supine neglect made the Northern Wreck debacle inevitable. How much of the remaining £17.5 billion outstanding loans made to the Wreck the tax-payer will see again is anybody’s guess - it will certainly be well short of the full amount.
But this is all of a piece with the swinish City of London spiv culture which sold our vital national power assets offl. JM Keynes once said that “when the capital development of a country depends upon a gambling casino the job was likely to be ill-done”. Even truer now than when Keynes said it because the despicable parasites have gone up a few gears in the scale and complexity of their scams.
The FSA put out a statement this morning denying what Greenberger says, well they would, wouldn’t they? The plush, feather-bedded toadies!
For me it is a case of “I’m alright jack”. I still have an open fire you see. So, regardless of oil, gas, coal, or wood supplies, I will still have plenty of fuel to burn.
My fuel will be all those government multi-lingual forms and all that crap spewed out by the EU e.g. common purpose propaganda.
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You’ll have plentiful supplies, then, ciobar. -Ed
Another chance to plug this post by some anonymous nationalist blogger:
http://britishnationalist.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-shall-we-do-when-oil-runs-out.html
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Very interesting, Mark, thanks, and welcome aboard - Ed
All of this can be easily blamed on that illicit and corrupt Marxist Liberal organisation called ‘Common Purpose’ which is controlled by Brussels and of which, it is strongly suspected all the mainstream political parties and both civil and commercial institutions of the United Kingdom and European Union, are actually affiliated to and in collusion with.
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/browns-britain-eu-5th-columnists-now-run-government/
Afternoon Ed. Just recieved a link to the following page …
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16518
… regarding the ePetition to abondon the Lisbon Treaty.
“We believe the treaty would be good for the UK and good for the EU. This treaty adjusts existing treaties, in the same way as previous EU amending treaties.”
So in other words they are admitting that the Lisbon reaty is nothing more than a re-worded version of the original treaty which we were prommissed a refrendum on!
Maybe we should declare war on Russia and surrender before a shot is fired. We seem to be told what to do from small ethnic groups to the EU and USA, the whole thing is a shambles.
Ralph 12.22
You can always be guaranteed lots of wind in one part of this country and copious amounts of it. This place is called Westminster. But unfortunately it’s been proven you can’t run a country on it.
So nuclear and coal it has to be.
If we had the right level of sustainable population in this country of about thirty million( according to various pundits), peak power of 60 gigawatts would only be 30 gigawatts. Great savings on usage could be saved by millions of office blocks and superstores up and down the country being made to ’switch off’ after hours. There is an office block near me built several years ago and never occupied, yet all of its lights are on all night every night.
This country properly controlled and invested in for the long term, with only British interests catered for, could easily be self-sufficient with home produced energy.
Only a Nationalist government can provide this option. The BNP.
Our new power system could be called ‘British National Power’. Or BNP for short!
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That’ll be 2/6d., ta. - Ed.
Why don’t we install treadmills along the length of the Channel Tunnel. The hordes of asylum seekers flocking here from the continent could actually do something useful and drive generators attached to the treadmills. If we loop the tunnel back to France, there’s no end to the power that could be generated!
As for building more nuclear power stations, I don’t see why we have to rely on EDF or Toshiba for that. We produce plenty of nuclear physics and engineering graduates, and the Royal Navy has an excellent training programme for nuclear technicians, engineers and physicists. There’s no reason why we couldn’t build up a nuclear manufacturing industry from scratch once again, it just takes time and investment from central government.
The LabConspiracy of totally ignoring the power needs of Britain is at last coming home to roost. The Labour and Conservative Governments have been as neglectful as each other by “Burying their Heads in the Sand”.
We now as a country are in deep trouble and this has been obvious to anyone who can count in Gigawatts. It just involves counting up to under 100. This is obviously far beyond the vision of anyone in the Labour or Conservative Parties.
It is simple Lab and Con Merchants, go on internet and ask UK Power consumption and then details of Power Stations.
Count Gigawatts Used- QUESTION Is Power Generating Capacity bigger than Gigawatts Used. If it is not “You are in the S_ _T”. We are heading for “Being in the S_ _T”
Thank you Conservative and Labour, sorry but the best must be BNP.
We’re saved! Just assemble some Ikea solar panels on the roof of your house and make your own electricity!
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/08/08/ikea-to-sell-solar-panels/
Connect George Monbiot up to the National Grid, that will do the trick!! Seriously,being a Nationalist organisation, when we come to power, the first thing to do is leave the EU.The second should be to make the streets safe at nights, this will in return enable us to turn half the street lights off, all the office and shop lights off, and we have saved so much that we will not have to worry about importing gas from Russia etc.S ome of these new nuclear designs can be built in Britain(Rolls-Royce for example). All we need is a change of Government,committed to the British people, I wonder which one that will be!!
I seem to recall a cable being laid for electricity to be imported from France. Could this whole energy deficit problem caused by the LibLabCons dithering over energy production, just be another means of making us totally dependent on our EU masters? Here is the news today Thursday 14th August 2012. ‘In a show of European Solidarity with our fellow Eurocitizens in Albion West, a further 10 megawats of energy will be supplied to this energy poor area. Those Eurocitizens of Albion West who have shown perverted inclinations of B ritish N ational Proclivities will have their meters switched over to their own depleted sources from Albion West. All hail President Mandelson of Europa!’.
I am intrigued at the choice of the Three Mile Island power plant as an illustration in the main article.
Are you perhaps making the point that a properly designed nuclear plant can survive a serious accident/operator error without presenting a significant hazard to the wider public?
I have always said that the industry reacted awkwardly to TMI and failed to make the point that, despite the seriousness of the accident, the safety features and biological shielding did what they were designed to do and that in fact the accident demonstrated the SAFETY of nuclear power plants rather than the danger of them.
On Private Eye - I have a far less rosy view than ‘Sir Henry Morgan’. Since its foundation in the early 1960s there have been of course innumerable scandals; Private Eye, though occasionally taking an honourable lead, has rarely come up with any serious goods at all. I rememeber the Vietnam War era, which the Eye said nothing valuable about. It had nothing useful on (for example) Biafra, the coal situation when the miner’s strike was on; and has had little on Iraq. It has pieces about, but never anything seriously helpful on, the BBC, publishing, newspapers. It drew attention to a boys home, Kincora, but again never realy pushed this story. They had a special piece on Information Technology in the NHS, but this was if I remember written by non-techies and failed to get any proper grasp beyond of course stating vast sums were wasted. Despite their connection there’s little of any value on ‘intelligence’ (including ‘Searchlight’); where is their information on 7/7/ or 9/11? They have some competent anonymous correspondents, notably on farm scandals, and the EU, and all credit to them, although the writing style is nearly always tailored to the literary convention of ending with some sort of punchline. Their material on financial scandals unfortunately is usually incomprehensible, mainly I think because it appears to be rewritten in house style. Their idea of a story worth including is some newspapaer editor not knowing that Peking is Beijing. When the chips are down, it’s pro-establishment; they’re still running pieces on Steven Lawrence for example. I’m afraid it’s just a haunt of public schoolboys who fancy themselves as authors and essentially follow the LibLabConline. Even their jokes, which can be very funny indeed, are generaly a predictable pastiche of current ‘news’ headlines combined with long running in-jokes of their own. I don’t want to be unfair; of course the legal system and libel laws make serious work difficult. But the Eye compared to serious commentary is just a little boy using rude words, unfortunately.
What’s relevant here of course is that Booker is simply quoting other people - taking the credit for others’ work. I’d be surprised if he has any technical grasp of the issues.
Dear Ed - please leave my quote chevrons in place, it makes more sense that way…
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>>if we had the right level of sustainable population
>>in this country of about thirty million( according to
>>various pundits), peak power of 60 gigawatts
>>would only be 30 gigawatts.
Agreed, but everyone wants us to have electric and hydrogen transport systems, and since transport consumes 25% of all energy supplies (against electricity’s 10%), we would need to increase electrical production in the UK by 250% to cope with all these new electrical demands. - And don’t even think about electrical heating!
People don’t realise the scale of the problem sometimes.
Ralph
I have two questions:- (1) will we then be buying ultra-expensive power from Europe after 2010? (2) would we be able to get the decommissioned power stations up and running again, if needs must? I suspect I know the answer to (1), and as for (2), I imagine that it is far easier to turn the switch off than to turn it back on again.
@Askari
1) Even that one is not that easy. The cross-channel interconnector was originally built so that The French and the UK grid could share their peak capacity. (Our peaks occur about 1 hour apart, we supply them during their peak they supply us during ours) It was a good idea. However, in recent years the flow has almost exclusively been from France to the UK representing about 5% of our total consumption.
Increasing this further faces two huge problems. The first is that more cross channel links would have to be built (About 2Gw per route) Not only that but the entire grid in the SE would need to be reinforced in order to transmit this power to the rest of the country (the same problem would be faced if we were to build, say, half a dozen big new power stations in Kent)
The second is that France has her own electricity supply problems. They are extremely unlikely to have the spare power available to supply it to us in the quantities needed, even if the links were in place and whatever the price.
This is a problem we either solve on our own or face the consequences. And make no mistake; the consequences of failing to do so will be devastating! The power cuts of the early 70’s were an inconvenience but, for the most part, life could continue. Similar “Cyclic” power cuts today would have a catastrophic effect on the economy and on individual lives owing to our reliance on electronics and computers in almost every aspect of life.
Just consider, Shops in the 70’s could still operate during a power cut (In fact, it was almost an adventure, with all the candles and so on)
Think about what would happen today. Without the electronic till and barcode reader, even your local corner shop would be virtually unable to sell you a loaf of bread, even if you had the cash in your hand! And that is without going anywhere near the problems associated with our reliance on credit/debit cards!
(Note to self: If it looks like the You_Know_What is going to hit the fan, make sure I have a good wedge of cash under the mattress, it wont solve the problem, but it is a whole world better than being stuck with nothing more than a useless piece of plastic)
As for 2)
A power plant that has simply been “Shut down” can probably be re-commissioned relatively easily (though there would be a significant amount of work involved, depending on how it was shut down and long it had been shut down for). The real risk is that of the PTB wilfully vandalising them to make them difficult (or even impossible) to restart. If this sounds a bit paranoid. Consider that when the TSR2 project was cancelled it wasn’t just “Cancelled” it was “Destroyed” so that a future change of government would be unable to reinstate it.
If any business was run like this country it would be bankrupt in months. The mess we are in will take decades to correct! I suspect one day in the near future when food gets short and too expensive and the lights go out. We will see riots in the streets. It needs a sharp shock to jolt people out of their lethargy.
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If this country was a business, its directors would be in jail! -Ed
Took a wander round the science museum the other week and it appals me to think of what we, as a nation, have lost. Mind you, with these corrupt self serving labour clowns in power, seems we still lead the world in bulls**t and smarmy ideology. Vote BNP
China builds an estimated 2 new coal power plants each week.
We buy an infinite amount of product from China.
So, if the EU was serious about carbon emissions it would put huge environmental tariffs on Chinese imports.
If the EU lacks the b*lls to do this, then Britain should build its coal powered stations as whatever savings we make will easily be wiped out by the growth in China and India.
The West is definitely going to lose out to countries that are more centrally planned over the next few decades, simply because they are collectively thinking longer term and securing energy resources. China spends its billions improving its “commercial war capability” while Britain is in la la land giving aid to third world nations that are as bad as they were 100 years ago.
Britain lacks coherent strategy to face the challenges of the next 100 years.
So, we are to destroy ourselves for the sake of tackling climate change and global warming which, in all probability, are a fiction and do not exist or, if they do, are beyond mortal endeavour to do anything about. Another example of the stealth attacks perpetrated on us by the NWO, represented in this neck of the wood by the EU with their unattainable anti-pollution laws and further down the hierarchy by the servile Liblabcons in Britain (or Greater Lampedusa, as I like to call it), in order to reduce us to the status of zombie slaves under the guard of Voodoo-Moongod-Worshipping-Paedophile fanatics.
And all the while that this dire scenario is playing itself out, Nero fiddles. Remember the junket costing 25,000 pounds spent by British Gas on entertainment starring Jimmy Carr before the start of a training course in Birmingham to help staff explain the extortionate price rises of 35% (part of the way forward to the anticipated overall rise of 66% over 2 years) to fearful consumers? Private Eye? - no, this is for real, folks. You couldn’t make it up.
They don’t actually want us to reduce consumption, just pay more for it, and to use it as a tool of harrassment, as in the case of the 84-year old war veteran Walter Bargate who was driven to attempt suicide when German-owned EON broke into his home to instal a prepayment meter he couldn’t use owing to his disabilities and impaired sight. He was hounded for a bill of nearly 7,000 pounds, but in fact had overpaid by thousands of pounds as his meter had been wrongly wired in the first place. His daughter was right when she said that the Germans didn’t get him the first time round, but nearly succeeded this time!
As if selling out our energy to foreigners isn’t bad enough, there’s the solar panel farm the size of Wales Brown and Sarkozy want to build in the Sahara - who would own it, would it become a trouble-spot like Suez, Panama or even Iraq and Iran and could it be used by the North Africans in the Mediterranean Union to hold Europe to ransom and force their entry into a joint Eurabian ubercontinent are questions that spring to mind.
However, there is still enterprise and innovative brain-power left in Britain. Take the SeaGen turbine fuelled by tidal power at Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland which entered the National Grid in July this year, working 20 hours a day. I think variety is the key, with fewer of the dangers of monopoly and less chance of huge environmental disasters. But it has to be British variety, before they put another nail in its coffin.