Boris Johnson believes the West should be given a “climate change pass” to help wean the EU off Russian gas supplies as he faces mounting pressure over the Government’s 2050 Net Zero target. The Times has the story.
The Times has been told that Johnson wants the West, particularly the U.S. and Canada, to ramp up its own production of gas to help remove the “massive leverage” Russia has over EU countries.
While retaining the Government’s target, Johnson is understood to believe that Western countries should be able to increase gas production during the transition to nuclear and renewables. It came as Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader, announced that he is launching a political movement to campaign for a referendum on the Net Zero policy.
A Government source said: “The Prime Minister has been very clear that one of the massive problems is the leverage that Putin has over a number of European countries over gas and oil.
“We have to address this over the short term, mid term and long term. The Prime Minister is interested in giving the gas industry a climate pass in the transition to nuclear and renewables.” Johnson hinted at the approach during an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and the German publication Die Welt last week.
“We need a collective European strategy and a Western strategy to diversify away from this dependence,” he said. “There are other sources… in North America, in Canada, in the Gulf.”
Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, suggested at the G7 meeting in Brussels on Friday that a ceiling be imposed on imports of Russian coal, oil and gas which comes down over time. She believes that the “long-term defence of freedom is worth short-term economic pain”.
Germany gets two thirds of its gas from Russia. It recently announced that it is shelving the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. …
Thirty-four Tory MPs urged the Prime Minister to reverse plans to seal two shale gas wells, insisting that Britain must secure its energy independence. Cuadrilla is due to concrete over its wells in Lancashire on March 15th.
In their letter to Johnson, the MPs state: “We urge you to pause and conduct a review. At a time of such geopolitical strife, we cannot refrain from actions that would improve the position of the U.K. and its allies. We have seen how a reliance on imported gas affects the responses of other countries during the initial stages of Russian aggression.” The intervention was organised by Craig Mackinlay and Steve Baker of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.
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I thought net zero referred to the use and consumption of fossil fuels leading to CO2 emission, not the production.
What does it matter whether the gas is extracted in the UK or in Russia or in the Middle East? Surely their goal – insane as it is – refers to the amount USED.
Thine own lips hath said it – why would you expect sanity from the insane?
If they increase production, they add more jobs, energy prices go down, everyone realizes that life is so much better, so when they try to shut down production the entire country will be up in arms. They have worked too hard for too long to reduce the quality of life slowly enough so that the average person doesn’t pick up on it. They can’t go from hell to good and back to hell in the span of one year without shattering the illusion.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Yes, its almost as if they have suddenly realised that for every GW of unreliables you need a GW of backup from fossil-fueled generation for when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine. Its backup for days maybe weeks; not batteries that have a problem after 2 hours. And nukes don’t do hot start back-up.
So I treat Johnson’s remarks with utter contempt. He still is fixated on net zero, he’s just worried about the back-up. It might cost another £1tn but who cares its going on customers bills anyway.
Yes indeed – the fact that they pathetically pretend it does is at the heart of this particular fraud – while we will shiver China builds new Coal fired power stations. – what more do we need to know?
With Russia now pushed into the arms of China by Nato and the EU busy protecting and separating itself from the West ( new Chinese Credit Card adopted – massive increase in trade with China!) in response to the ridiculous self-harm’ sanctions launched against it, the total ‘Take Down’ of the west is surely now well underway! Banking system next on the Globalist destroyers’ list?
Biden will be known as the “Senile Destroyer”! The US presidency is now a joke for all the world to see.
Russia now moving to the Gold Standard – India looking to trade Rupees into Roubles – so where does that leave the dollar? Vital wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine looking to fall.
Is there anyone in charge of this new disaster in Downing Street, or are they all at the “Save Ukraine Party” in their blue and yellow outfits?
But what will Greta say?
I care not
“How very dare you! I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the cold every day.” Or something equally dumb, perhaps?
Same angry screeching sounds as always.
Because you can never appease a zealot.
Every surrender just further enrages and emboldens them.
She’s gone quiet lately. She must have discovered cock
Also she’s just found out that sex is pretty much the only enjoyable thing that’s carbon neutral, and being active under the duvet is a great way to keep warm during those long cold Swedish winter nights without turning the heating on.
It won’t be long before she wants to encourage us all to do the same, and starts promoting Greta’s Gangbang against Global Warming with the slogan “cum and combat the climate crisis”.
Surely not.
Somebody needs to go to Specsavers then.
What has she said about billions of Made in China LFT kits ending up in landfill? Nothing.
Whatever her handlers tell her to say.
Well, that’s at least a small benefit of the hysteria over the war in the Ukraine.
Might well be a drop in the ocean of the self-destructive impact of the US sphere’s panic sanctions response, though. Again, just as with covid, our society is like a driver panicking at the sight of a wasp in the car and frantically waving both his hands at it, paying no attention to the road.
And in this case the cause of the presence of the wasp was our own leaders’ stupid and criminal policies over decades.
Yet more equivocation and tinkering around the edges from yet another government. This doesn’t need a moratorium or temporary expedients, but a proper, costed plan, with full appreciation of timetables and the effect on life in this country for all people, in every possible aspect.
It also needs a long, hard look at the alarmist baloney and fraudulent statistics, being pumped out by the people who need an alarmist replacement “narrative” for Covid, and that then being followed by reasoned actions, if such are warranted.
Sorry comrade, but I disagree. We don’t need more central government planning. We need free exchange based on unadulterated market forces that can, like an invisible hand, guide production and prices.
Central planning doesn’t work except to create unnecessary shortages, high prices and misery.
Unadulterated market forces never have existed and never will because plenty of people are corrupt and they will lie, cheat and steal in order to manipulate the market to their advantage.
Market forces are: voluntary exchange wherein parties to,the exchange exclusively decide the terms and conditions of the exchange aka free market. They also include reputation – trick me once, etc, competition, market disruptive invention and innovation which destroy old jobs and old capital and create new.
You are part right, they did exist in the second part of the 18th Century and well into the 19th Century, but as Government stuck it’s nose in more and more they have been replaced by corporate capture of Government, corporate welfare, protectionism and cronyism.
Manipulation of the market can only succeed in cahoots with Government via regulation/protectionism, subsidy, taxation.
I disagree, free markets are as much a fantasy as a communist economic utopia.
The time period you reference was dominated by Monarchs, Empires and corporatist constructs, there was no free market and free exchange for the vast majority there was only abject poverty and doing as you were told by those above you.
It is always easier for the wealthy to fix the game in their favour than to compete in a free market, the wealthy always have and always will do this, it is a feature of human nature.
I’m not really making an academic argument.
The free market exists. Perhaps more imperfectly in some sectors and industries than in others, but it exists. If you don’t believe me, ask the owner of a sandwich shop, a builder or a gardener whether they are exposed to market forces.
Put a different way just try to imagine what the airline industry would look like if was centrally planned and run by the state. Or if you are of a certain age, remember what it was like in the 1970s and early 80s before deregulation.
Yes they will but if the companies are unprotected by the government the abuses will not last. In the same way that a restaurant that offers terrible food and or terrible service goes out of business.
Are there businesses that cheat, do a terrible job and generally suck? Yes. Do they endure and prosper? No, unless….
Think of any corporate abuse or monopoly that endures and I guarantee you will see the government in some way standing in the way protecting the company in some way from its customers.
I like “big government” and all that goes with it as little as you do. However, it looks to me as if a lot of this stuff is going to be inevitable i.e. rammed down our throats, whether we like it or not. If that’s so, then I’d prefer it to be done with the bureaucrats’ and politicians’ blinkers removed, as candid as it must be, and with some effort at working out what’s feasible, affordable and what isn’t.
There are many causes for the dire state we’re in, and I’m not convinced that governments, having once tasted the delights of dictatorship for two years, will ever permit market forces to act as you suggest. Nor am I especially persuaded by the activities and performance of those entities supposedly operating “in the market”, which in many cases have resulted in cartels, monopolies, expensive and poor services, and many other ills (a bit like Government and most of its subsidiaries e.g. NHS).
I do hope you’re wrong, some still say they’re terrified of the masses, if that’s true then there is still hope.
This is one of the big, big misconceptions. The monopolies and cartels you mention are precisely possible because of government interference by means of special permits and licences to operate. These abuses by companies would be rarer and much more short lived if the government just got out the way and let people get on with it.
Yes. Repeal the climate change act and net zero legislation and the market place WILL produce the answer pdq. Gone will be unreliables, in will be reliables paid a fair market price.
Unreliables will go bust because they won’t be able to afford the system costs that at the moment are paid by other users of the system.
The reason no-one is building CCGTs is not because of gas supply or costs its because no-one can risk the exposure to government interference.
it’s been costed and over £3Tn pounds by 2050 is the very conservative estimate, it’s just not been costed by the government.
That £3Tn equates to more than £150,000 per household but could be up to three times that (£450,000) if Europe and North America are to underwrite the rest of the world’s net-zero activities.
The fact is, even that’s impossible to achieve as the UK has less than half the labour required to undertake the physical work required. And we can forget importing skilled immigrant labour as they’ll be fully employed helping their own countries achieving these ridiculous objectives.
Professor Michael Kelly’s analysis explains it. Nor is this the first time he’s published these figures, just the first time people are actually taking note of them.
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/03/Kelly-Net-Zero-Progress-Report.pdf?mc_cid=3de10e3d7a&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
Bingo. The target of 600,000 reverse-fridge installations a year is a complete fantasy. The easy and cheap ones are being done just now. Once enough mugs have been fooled into installing them at a bargain price of only £10-15K, the time and costs will start to rise sharply.
You can swap a combi boiler out like-for-like in a few hours.
Doing a reverse-fridge can mean fully insulating a home, including underfloor, ripping it up to replace pipework, changing all the radiators, and finding somewhere to install, plumb and wire in a new storage tank. That gets you into multiple days to weeks of work, needing a complete house clearance in some cases.
I’ve renovated a few houses in my time. For the vast majority of UK properties the reverse fridge idea is a complete and utter non-starter.
Indeed, I’ve been casually helping the bloke across the street renovate a small flat, built using the same techniques as my house, which is what’s given me pause for thought.
His estimate of 6 weeks is now running at over 6 months once he started lifting the floor and realising that all the microbore pipework and half the joists would have to be replaced. Prices for materials are doubling between quote and delivery at the moment, if you get get them at all, and tradesmen show up or not pretty much as they please, even more than usual.
We can barely maintain the stock that we have, let alone rebuilding and replumbing it.
Bozo doesn’t do indepth planning, he doesn’t see further than his next lunch. We were warned about this before he became PM. He has an abysmal record for loyalty, deep thought, or strategy, relying on playing the clown because he wants to be liked.
The Wall Street Journal article concluded that: “Beijing has its own payment system, too, with more take-up by international banks than Russia’s. Some critics have worried that banning Russian banks from SWIFT could drive Russia and China together, eroding the supremacy of the dollar-denominated global financial system.”
Only days later on March 6, it was announced that Russian banks planned to issue cards using China’s UnionPay system, with Sberbank and Alfa-Bank saying they are working on a rollout of UnionPay cards. Only the day before, Visa and Mastercard announced that they would suspend operations in Russia. Rosbank, Tinkoff Bank, and the Credit Bank of Moscow (MKB) are also working on releasing UnionPay cards, effectively meaning that Russia is being pushed into the financial arms of China by being banned from using SWIFT, Mastercard and Visa, in addition to a plethora of other sanctions.
Although Russians are undoubtedly facing a period of financial uncertainty and stress, the repercussions of such an economic war will only see Russia more independent from Western financial systems as it seeks to diversify – whether it be through its own system, China and/or even other emerging systems like India’s RuPay.
In fact, despite the short term hurt Russia will face, ultimately the highest price of sanctions could be paid by the European Union, which has seemingly in an incomprehensible way underestimated the problems it would be exposed to, and how Russia would be able to link itself to Eastern systems in a relatively quick manner.
A poll conducted at the end of 2021 by the Federation of German Industries found that close to one-quarter of the 400 companies surveyed insist that their survival is under threat due to rising energy costs. That number would surely be even higher in the next poll as gas prices has risen to historic highs in Europe since then. However, it could be even worse for other EU members as Germany at least has access to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
The US is not immune to the effects of sanctions against Russia either though.
Patrick De Haan, an expert on oil and gasoline prices, highlighted on March 4 that although the national average for a gallon of gas was $3.781, he tweeted on February 28 that the average gas price in some US cities will reach $5 a gallon “in the next couple of weeks.” San Francisco on March 3 became the first American city with an average gas price of more than $5 per gallon, an increase of over 30% in one year.
The current political and ideological divisions in the US will now be further exacerbated by the economic shock that will follow, and it is likely that the American public will quickly lose interest in Ukraine. This economic war will prove only to weaken the Western liberal capitalist system as hundreds of billions of dollars will be disconnected from Western financial institutions and moved to the East – especially when traditionally neutral countries like Switzerland have actually sanctioned Russia, thus increasing the importance of Dubai for Russian investors, according to one expert. Surely other financial centres to the East will also benefit from Switzerland’s move away from neutrality, as well as from Russia’s disconnect from SWIFT, Mastercard and Visa.
DISCONNECTING RUSSIA FROM SWIFT WILL CAUSE SHORT-TERM PAIN BUT LONG-TERM GAIN
[Emphasis added]
The last two years have demonstrated that we are governed by vandals.
You credit them with too much intelligence and competence. Superannuated toddlers they are, without the innocence.
That’s more like it.
Far too polite.
Oh I think it goes back a LOT further than the last two years!
It mostly seems inevitable. If Russia can get what it wants and where it wants with the help of those it considers to be its friends, there is no good reason why it should dally with countries and systems that have treated it badly. If they get their new arrangements up and working quite quickly, then why would they revert? Even if the leadership there changes, it took a long time for the Iron Curtain to be drawn, and once established, a Russia with strong alliances away from the West won’t be in a hurry to give up advantages; especially if the West is as weak as it now is, intellectually, morally, politically and economically.
The real danger to the US is the end of the petro-dollar, and dollar as the reserve currency. Without that its debts will not be met. It could be signing its own death sentence.
Boris worried he’ll be Neck Zero?
He’s certainly spine zero.
It should not be relaxed, it should be launched into the Atlantic with a trebuchet and Michael Gove attached to it.
And BoJo’s harpy wife.
Harpy Antoinette?
Let them eat tofu.
The Eton Mafia exist to steal as much money from the taxpayer as they possibly can, the last two years have been boom years for them.
The eco rip off is their long term scam whereas the pandemic was a more short term affair.
Anyone that believes there is so much as an ounce of truth in anything that this Eton mafia Don says is a complete mug.
£35,000 to have lunch with Boris.
‘Climate change pass’
Is that like a Vaccine Pass… it won’t stop climate change, but make it less serious?
Da da da dum: Reality knocking.
i think we owe Vladimir Putin a big, big thank you. Next can you put UK on your invasion list for denazification please – anything to get rid of the odious, noxious shower of merde aka the incompetent, British political class.
‘The Times has been told that Johnson wants the West, particularly the U.S. and Canada, to ramp up its own production of gas …’
Hasn’t the arse-end of a Pantomime horse in No 10 not read Brandon’s Green Deal or listened to what baby Justin has been saying?
They are committed to ramping it down you idiot!
National Socialist: Nazi
International Socialist: Commie
Globalist Socialist: WEFzi?
Not quite. Hitler’s plan was to create, more or less, the EU. So I would argue that the nazis were international socialists, the communists were national socialists (I realize the conflict with the meaning of “Nazi”) and the globalist socialists are neo-comms.
The aim of Hitler was, and that of the EU is, to abolish independent nations and have one big, happy, Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer, made up of regions ruled from Berlin. So international? Not so much.
As far as I know, Hitler didn’t want to unite everything under one nation. His idea was that nations would all be equal and they would be under Germany’s rule (that old socialist chestnut: some are more equal than others).
Either way, that’s what he was saying. No telling what he was actually going to do.
They ignored him as some rambling nutter just like they do with Klaus Schwab.
That works.
The Times has been told that Johnson wants the West, particularly the U.S. and Canada, to ramp up its own production of gas …’
In other words our reliance will switch to the North American continent.
Why don’t we do something really unique and dig out all the energy we need from under our bloody feet. And, just to provide for the time in a few hundred years when it runs out, sort out a viable nuclear power industry.
It’s not complicated is it?
Thatcher closed the coal mines in the UK and built shopping centres over some of them in an attempt to make it hard to re-open them.
Such an utterance is predicated on the idea that net zero might well be one day something to strive for. They don’t even believe this themselves, even the WEF. Look at major investment in beachside properties in areas vulnerable to sea level rise. It is all bullshit. In 1992 governments gave the most predatory entities on the planet the stewardship of the natural world. We are now reaping the bitter harvest. For them it is simply a matter of keeping the charade going on long enough so that they can get away with all the spoils.
Crikey, Farage only opened his mouth yesterday…
Just to put the record straight, Farage is doing this under his honorary presidency of Reform UK. Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK is looking to get a cross party group going to get the people a say….
“We are demanding a referendum on the life-changing Net Zero plans forced upon us by Westminster politicians. We want the British people to have a say, both on our energy future and on Britain’s energy security.”
Just like we had with Brexit.
“Crikey, Farage only opened his mouth yesterday…”
I was going to make the same point.
My thoughts exactly. Very effective very quickly.
So, Nigel, while you are telling truth to power and getting such traction can you quickly cover a LOT more subjects, like the covid fraud, CBDC, the discriminatory purposes of the vax pass, the Great Reset….
Yes please. Pile the pressure on.
If we use the fat from Boris as fuel will the energy crisis be resolved?
Several decades worth I feel
Lie detectors are always set off when I hear the UK Government telling us they’ve been ‘really clear’ about something.
It always means the exact opposite.
Johnson and his Reset Gang must go.
At the start of the Ukraine thing I was certain of very little other than Putin will run rings around the gender bender politicians we have in the West and that the propaganda from our lot would be tiresome.
Putin is mad, Putin is Hitler blah blah blah
And China? Oh that’s right…..
‘Government source said: “The Prime Minister has been very clear that one of the massive problems is the leverage that Putin has over a number of European countries over gas and oil’
Talk us through the wisdom of moving all our industry to China whilst simultaneously selling off our infrastructure to them you big fat Etonian bell end.
If the Chinese cut off their exports to us we are screwed are we not.
Should we start exporting our clean air….
We already are, in empty shipping crates being sent back to Chyna.
Flip-flopping according to which way the winds of political opinion are blowing. As he usually does!
Re: reCHAPTCHA. This pointless step is annoying enough without having to read “if there are none…”. It’s “is none”.
I could not care fewer.
But as the Saudi Arabia of wind to be,we surely do not need to do this as the magic windmills will solve all our problems, said Pig Dictator not 5 monthes ago.
Stuff the lot Nigel we are right behind you..
Trouble is it takes about 20 years to force the Tories to do the right thing.
You are right but at the moment there is no real Public debate .I think Farage has the skills to at least get the ball rolling.
“The Prime Minister has been very clear that one of the massive problems is the leverage that Putin has over a number of European countries over gas and oil.”
He’s only just worked that out?
Most of his life has been very busying greasing his weasel, and the last two years he has been busy defrauding the public with the lockdown scam.
He’s a bit slow isn’t he – must have been dropped on his head as a baby.
Oh Boris FFS just scrap the lot. Please.
But we left the EU didn’t we?
You really want these clowns to micro-manage your life. Why is this even a discussion. You should just tell them to fuck right off.
Getting tired of this ‘zero‘ nonsense – its everywhere now whether its zero covid, zero carbon, zero emissions, zero this, zero that – it sounds like fanaticism – sounds too much like Pol Pot’s crazy ‘Year Zero’.
Zero this you lunatics …
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incredibly artistic
All peddled by the Zero brains brigade.
Release the reverse-ferret!
Well, a Government Source has floated the balloon, anonymously, and deniably.
Let’s see what the narrative develops into once Premiere Johnson’s husband has had a few days sleeping on the sofa, and WuGov has told us how horrified by are by this betrayal of Saint Greta.
People have got to stop tolerating Western prostitutes saying that ‘Putin uses gas as a weapon’. The USA is the one using gas a weapon and has caused Europe to commit industrial suicide by cutting off NS2. The only way to explain that is that the USA truly hates Europe and wants it destroyed. There’s no discussion possible about that. That NS2 warmongering of the USA was going on for years before Putin went into Ukraine.
Europe needs to grow 60 testicles and punish the USA for trying to destroy their economies.
There needs to be a declaration required of all US citizens living in Europe, including every single diplomat, that they have no right to reside in Europe if they advocate policies destroying European prosperity to benefit the USA. They have to state that the USA trying to shut down NS2 was pure mafioso gangsterism, behaviour incompatible with any friend of European nation states. If they refuse to state that, they should be given 96 hrs to leave the country of face the consequences….
If that means that the USA has no diplomatic presence in any European nation, too bad….
Vote Reclaim!
Honestly, Ron, I can’t even remember which novelty ego project that is. I don’t think it’s UKIP 3.0 Ltd, so it’s either Luvvie Lawrence, or the decent but Quixotic David Kurten, unless I missed yet another novelty launch.
And either way, no I don’t vote for parties, because I’m not a flag-waving simpleton. We cast our votes for, and get represented by, the individuals who are actually standing in our constituencies. So that’s what I do. Vote for the person who best represents my views, regardless of rosette, or writing “None of these cads” (or words to that effect) on the ballot.
Party politics are the cause of our woes, not the solution.
Or even Reform
This is the problem with net zero. It’s based on such an imminent calamity, that you can’t blink on the policy. As soon as you do, people will begin to question the emergency underpinning it.
Every time he opens his fekin mouth he contributes to “Anthropomorphic global warming”!
I wonder what he had to do to get around Carrie so that she’d allow him to do that?
She gets to redecorate the flat and pick the wallpaper again.
He now sleeps with the dog .Poor dog .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7isMkGxOrXs&ab_channel=TheDuran
System collapse. Biden turns to Iran & Venezuela for help
Mercouris discusses energy crisis caused by US actions against Ukraine.
From about 40 mins in.
Cost of gas up 20 times in the past year?
I was reading earlier today of someone having been quoted £4000 to fill up their 2000 litre oil tank. Heating oil has gone through the roof this last week and a lot of rural properties have no alternate source of heat. Big trouble ahead for gas, electric, oil. How long will the lights stay on at this rate?
My retired in-laws gave up on heating oil for their rural property (on cost, and when it froze in the pipe) and went for electric storage heaters.
They’re not desperately trying to move house before the price hikes hit, and hoping that potential buyers don’t ask how much the heating bill is likely to be.
Johnson just gets more off-the wall surreal every day – what can be done?
What is he on? Who can help us?
No-one in the sold out Tory Party.
Every war-torn cloud…
Net Zero is an impossible target … unless you really do want a stone age society and stone age life expectancy again.
Plenty of irony-impaired eco-loons are tweeting support for that from their iPhones.
So it has taken Putingate and a kicking from his own MPs to make this “leader” see the bleedin’ obvious.
It’s a small step, very small, in the right direction. However, it’s going take quite a while to reach any result.
More urgent action is needed to stop the insane plan to stop production of petrol and deisel cars by 2030. It’s too much and far to quick, especially in favour of expensive EV’s. Battery issues, short journey lengths, frequent charging stops, very few charging points etc.
And manufacture of them producing at least as much if not more CO2. Theres no point.
Leave things alone and let the public decide if they want them.
Call who for relaxation of target? Just scrap it, we don’t owe it to anyone to ruin ourselves
If France can make yoghurt a protected industry, maybe we should bring back fracking in the interest of energy self-sufficiency.
Perhaps he could just decide himself due to covid restrictions before the law runs out later this month? Would save him for going back to parliament, and the green lunatics.
Maybe he doesnt fancy a fight with Nigel Farage. Interesting that his new policy appeared just as Mr F launched his new campaign….
“There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”.
a moratorium on nut zero is half-way to an abandonment.