Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer made a big pitch today for ‘energy security’, promising to rip up planning rules for onshore wind power and create a state-owned green energy giant that will provide all the power the U.K. needs, as well as hitting all our targets on climate change, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator. But on closer inspection, “it seems that Sir Keir knows barely anything about energy security”. Lynn continues:
In fairness, Sir Keir has got one thing right. Our energy supplies remain very fragile. Over the past couple of weeks the price of natural gas in Europe has risen by 50% as traders bet on huge shortages over the coming winter. We got lucky last winter, with relatively mild weather, and with plenty of LNG from the United States shipped across the Atlantic, but it may not be so easy once the cold weather is back. The blunt fact remains that we don’t have enough energy, and we can’t rely on current supplies, and that is as true of the U.K. as any other country.
The trouble is, Sir Keir clearly has no idea how to fix that. As it happens, it could be relatively easy for the U.K. to move towards self-sufficient in energy. There is still plenty of oil and gas left underneath the North Sea, and we could be drilling for that, but Sir Keir has committed himself to a complete ban on new licences. Even President Biden, hardly a Right wing climate change denier, has allowed new fields in Alaska, figuring you might as well drill for your own oil rather than importing it, but that is too much for the Labour party. Or we could start fracking, developing a huge new industry as they have in Canada, hardly a far-Right country. But instead, Labour supports a total ban on the industry.
An ‘energy security’ plan that replaces North Sea oil with windmills? Orwell would be proud.
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Please start asking if the employees at these state funded “charities” are enrolled in the civil service pansion schemes.
The whole point of the “green revolution” is to decrease land efficiency this enriching the like of Charles Windsor. If you splatter farmland in low yielding energy, two things happen. Energy prices and food prices both increase. Land owners despise the industrial revolution as it abruptly ended serfdom and resulted in lower prices. Fundamentally these ppl are disciples of the brain dead Malthus and hate humanity succeeding.
Exactly. Wealth and power is still in the hands of the Crown, Landowners and the Church plus ca change …..
If they are disciples of Malthus, that explains why a push for relaxed controls on euthanasia accompanies these policies.
I think they have been doing that on the quiet for a while now before the Lockdowns. They seem to be pushing DNR orders on anyone that is trusting enough to agree. Then we have PATHWAYS in 2020. I suggest looking on UK Column website for the video. Playing God.
Yes but Charles only owns land in this country. ——-What is the rest of the western worlds excuse?
Here’s a repeat of a note I posted earlier in News Roundup:
National Food Strategy commentary on “Harry’s Farm”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCrfujVZIk&list=WL&index=6&t=11s
Here is the strategy bumf: https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
Fits the bill with this article.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-rejoices-as-britain-commits-economic-suicide-in-pursuit-of-net-zero/
Fishy doing a fabulous job of destroying the country. Once Kneel gets on the scene the job will be almost finished.
Also a Labour government taking orders from the WHO with sweeping new powers should worry us all.
Not that people should worry themselves sick, that helps nobody. Reminds me of one of those dodgy criminals in the comedy Bread, one always says, “I’m only doing this so I can make enough to retire to that little cottage”…..I’m dubious about any future these days.
We are given the feeble excuse by the feeble minded planet savers that if you question any of the so called “science” of climate change then you are simply making excuses for or work for “Big Oil” or “Big Coal”. —-These feeble minded easily manipulated dreamers and all the not so feeble minded, who are either part of the political class of pretend to save the planet con artists or the business people that profit from farming all the taxpayer subsidies will tell you that the Fossil Fuel Industry “denies” climate change because they are trying to protect the profits they make from their evil industry, even though the evil industry has lifted two thirds of the world’s population out of abject poverty and given them better health and longer lifespans, a high standard of living that previous generations could only dream of and lots of leisure time. So this evil fossil fuel industry has an “agenda” ——-Incredibly though, so convinced of their own moral superiority are these people that they never even suspect for one second that the GREEN Industry has an agenda. They most certainly do. That agenda is Sustainable Development and its main means of achieving this eco socialist world—–NET ZERO. Where a multi Trillion dollar Industry can only exist if there is a climate emergency, and it matters not a jot if there is not a shred of evidence for one. So who are the con artists then? The fossil fuel Industry that has given us everything we now have so we can sit on our comfy couches in our centrally heated houses with a laptop on our knee or the Green Industry that seeks to take all of that away and have us spending huge chunks of our income on heat pumps and all manner of niche technologies that don’t do what it says on the tin and lowers our standard of living because the UN, WEF and our own complaint lackey politicians want to control the worlds wealth and resources with climate as the excuse?
Also the middle classes who are the most ardent supporters of this have the most to lose.
At the heart of the Man Made Climate Change narrative is the notion of scarcity; we are told that oil is “running out”.
Quite why the Nut Zero Brigade think that BigOil would disrupt this narrative is beyond me.
Scarcity yes, and fear if too many people and not enough resources, but also the other main aspect which is WEALTH. ——-The western world has become prosperous by using fossil fuels, which lifted us from serfdom and misery into having the Industrial Revolution, employment, electricity, freedom from back breaking labour, elimination of preventable diseases, a standard of living previous generations could never have dreamt of and longer lifespans etc etc. ——-At UN level it is deemed the “lifestyles of the affluent middle classes is too high”.
“commentators such as yours truly are merely the PR front for Big Oil…” so says Ben “B.P.” Pile…hmmm