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| WHO TURNED THE LIGHTS OUT? |
This is because five of the country's 14 coal-fired stations
must close in 2015 to hit previously agreed environmental targets.
And why are we in this position? Well two basic reasons. One
the EU, which has driven a policy of dear energy and has now required us to
close some of our power stations prematurely as the EU is against their
emissions of CO2.
And two, a series of spineless politicians who must now face
the consequences of their irrational policies. Top of the list is the Muppet,
Ed Miliband, the ex-Energy and Climate Change secretary, who signed us up to
this EU directive in the first place without considering how to keep the lights
on.
Now this announcement may come as a shock to many, but this
warning of an imminent ‘Power Crisis’ has certainly not come out of the blue!
It's has been expected and foreseen for the last 15 years at the very least.
But we haven't had any politicians with the guts to tackle it.
No matter which political party, they are all the same,
dodge the responsibility.
They only react when they are absolutely forced to face the
facts.
It makes one wonder whether it’s time to consider
re-nationalise electricity, gas, water and rail.
They are all essential (one might add strategic) services
which require an integrated network. They should be held in common ownership
and managed for the common good, not for private profit.
It's to be hoped you won't get what we have been subjected to in Ontario.NIMBY being the operative word.
ReplyDeletePolitico's buying much needed parliamentary seats?
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/09/26/ontarios-power-trip-hiding-the-gas-fiasco/
Believe me, Mr Anonymous in Canada, you are not alone experiencing NIMBY's!
ReplyDeleteNationlisation never achieved anything and never will. No government can run any business effectively. What is needed is a government which enables and regulates, without strangling innovation. Alas, this is also beyond the competence of our elected representatives.
ReplyDeleteAs for the power companies, the mistake was not so much in privatising, more about the government keeping a golden share to ensure they did not fall into foreign control........ or avoid UK taxes.
Our electric supplier is a Crown Corporation.
DeleteWe have too much capacity and at times "HAVE" to "pay" New york State to take our excess.
DUMB and DUMBER?
"It makes one wonder whether it’s time to consider re-nationalise electricity, gas, water and rail." - We disagree a lot, but you're spot on there.
ReplyDeleteEngland: 1054 people per square mile.
ReplyDeleteCanada: 8.3 people per square mile and vast resources.
Just for comparison: England's (official) population is 54 million. For England to have the same popualtion density as Canada our population would have to be 417,000. (less than two Tamesides), illustrating the massive and exponentially growing overpopulation crisis confronting us.
Canada's flexibility and room for manoeuvre on energy doesn't compare with 'sardine can' England, especially when the coalition government's non-existent immigration 'controls' allowed the immigrantion/immigrant led population explosion to increase by ANOTHER 400,000 between June 2011 and June 2012.
Not to mention the millions of unskilled economic migrants allowed in by the previous Labour government, to do the jobs not good enough for British "workers", and who now help swell the Labour vote.
DeleteNearer to home someone needs to turn the lights off on the M67 between Denton and Hyde.It must be more than two years they have been remained on burning vital funds of the Taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteWhy are they still on,don`t the HA staff on the M67 report it,don`t the Police report it ,and what about TMBC oh sorry
they are immune to anything other than their own bunch of racketeers.
But hey, they work cheap and don't moan about 'trivia' like fair pay and decent conditions. It's almost as if that's one of the reasons they were allowed to flood in in the first place isn't it.
ReplyDeleteQuite so. Why work when you can sit at home whilst the rest of us pay taxes to keep you and your offspring.
DeleteWelcome to our socialist utopia. We voted for it......now we have it.
We have enough homegrown deadlegs without importing millions fropm abroad. All they're doing is taking jobs from the British unemployed, especially the young.
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