Greta said world leaders weren’t doing enough. Trump in US dialled back on earlier commitments, the Glasgow Climate Conference was a half-hearted shambles. Now when supplies are threatened, by Mr Putin, we should grab the opportunity to start making more wind farms and solar panels, not digging for alternative sources of oil and gas.
Promising an energy strategy now is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Part of national governance is the creation and maintenance of strategies – especially as power stations take decades to plan and complete.
We’ve already got a long-standing national issue with existing plants nearing the end of their working lives. So why didn’t “the natural Party of government” create an energy strategy when they came to power in 2010?
Bit fucking late you blonde haired clown. Every government should have an energy strategy not something thrown together because of a foreign action. It seems our strategy was to appear to meet our carbon goals by winding down UK oilfields but then just importing more oil and gas from (mainly) Norway and some from Russia. Jesus wept
> Boris Johnson promises
Saw this on Twitter, no idea of the original source but it seems very relevant here:
> A Boris promise is just a lie that hasn’t happened yet.
Invest in the grid to allow more wind power and solar
Almost guarantee they’re just going to use this as an excuse to flog off fracking contracts to their mates and restart that whole stupid debate.
This is what we should have been doing instead of wasting most of a decade on fucking Brexit.
Should have had a proper energy security strategy all along. Too much listening to Green fanatics and no investment in nuclear fusion. End the modish green taxes now!! What the h3ll do our ministers do anyway?
No bread with this circus.
Always wondered how the British empire would end. Turns out it’s cannabilism.
For once (can’t believe I’m fucking saying this) to place this on all Boris is somewhat unfair.
You tell me the last Government that has done anything of notelomg term when it comes to decreasing our dependance on outside energy production?
This wasn’t a few years the making but decades.
The trigger for action to reduce our need on outside energy production should of been the first Gulf War but zilch.
A plan for a plan. What a shower of incompetent shite.
There are 5 ways the conservatively have catastrophically fucked up / and fucked us:
1. removing all grants for loft/cavity wall insulation – the number of these has plummeted from 1.3 million (2012) a year to 50k/year (2020). Companies like the Mark Group that fitted it went bust as a result. Imagine 10million homes now all super-insulated – and the effect on gas usage? People’s bills. Loft insulation pays for itself in ONE year.
2. Gordon Brown said all new homes by 2017 (gave them 10 years) should be net zero. Conservatives got rid of this even though house builders were starting to move that way and could have done. Some solar panels built into the roof would have been enough, or a ground-source heat-pump. Replacing tiles with solar panels would have meant less tiles. A lot of the cost of solar is days of scaffolding… but if you’re already building the house and it’s scaffolded then the net cost of solar at build is actually very low. ie. a £250 inverter and x number of 380w panels that cost <£100 each from China.
3. ROUGH – Shell’s giant undersea gas storage facility that could hold 2 months of gas was allowed to be closed. Not kept open as a strategic gas reservce. UK has 6 days of gas storage, Germany has 70 days, similar for Denmark. Last year gas prices crashed to an all time low (30p/therm). They’re now 19x higher. The literal gas in the storage would have more than paid for the billions of pounds to have maintained this for a decade. Also – this country is heavily reliant on gas – and seasonally – so buy low (summer, not a war, Covid), sell/use high.
4. onshore wind turbines – effectively banned.
5. Solar FIT totally removed to the point where payback went to 12+ years. A payment for generation that’s currently about 4p/kWh despite people paying 20,30,40p for the same kWh when they want to buy it.
Deploy Small Module Nuclear Reactors (speed up the audit and approval of them).
Allow wind farms on-land once again
Invest heavily in renewables to bring down price.
Promote WFH subsidies so you have less people needing cars, saving fuel.
Improve electrification of trains/public transport
Invest in insulation for UK.
>Boris Johnson promises energy strategy as Russia gas concerns grow
A Tory energy strategy (use that term loosely) has been in place for a decade or more… look where it has got us. We’d just get more of the same bullshit except more profits siphoned off to the private sector. Absolutely no fucking trust in anything they say and with good reason.
General information – we import less than 3% of all our gas from Russia.
There really is only one solution. Publicly owned energy companies.
Energy shouldn’t be a commodity sold to the highest bidder, it should be a service provided by the government to everyone at cost (with a little tagged on for investing in new generation technology).
“Boris Johnson promises……”
I nearly pissed myself laughing!
So does this mean he is going to make everything even more expensive and fuck things even more up?
Spoilers, the “strategy” is the same as every other Conservative strategy, rape the working class.
Johnson promises lots of things. It isn’t going to happen. Some of his mates will get a backhander for assessing this, then they will say they have ran out of cash. That is if Johnson is still around.
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Greta said world leaders weren’t doing enough. Trump in US dialled back on earlier commitments, the Glasgow Climate Conference was a half-hearted shambles. Now when supplies are threatened, by Mr Putin, we should grab the opportunity to start making more wind farms and solar panels, not digging for alternative sources of oil and gas.
Promising an energy strategy now is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Part of national governance is the creation and maintenance of strategies – especially as power stations take decades to plan and complete.
We’ve already got a long-standing national issue with existing plants nearing the end of their working lives. So why didn’t “the natural Party of government” create an energy strategy when they came to power in 2010?
Bit fucking late you blonde haired clown. Every government should have an energy strategy not something thrown together because of a foreign action. It seems our strategy was to appear to meet our carbon goals by winding down UK oilfields but then just importing more oil and gas from (mainly) Norway and some from Russia. Jesus wept
> Boris Johnson promises
Saw this on Twitter, no idea of the original source but it seems very relevant here:
> A Boris promise is just a lie that hasn’t happened yet.
Invest in the grid to allow more wind power and solar
Almost guarantee they’re just going to use this as an excuse to flog off fracking contracts to their mates and restart that whole stupid debate.
This is what we should have been doing instead of wasting most of a decade on fucking Brexit.
Should have had a proper energy security strategy all along. Too much listening to Green fanatics and no investment in nuclear fusion. End the modish green taxes now!! What the h3ll do our ministers do anyway?
No bread with this circus.
Always wondered how the British empire would end. Turns out it’s cannabilism.
For once (can’t believe I’m fucking saying this) to place this on all Boris is somewhat unfair.
You tell me the last Government that has done anything of notelomg term when it comes to decreasing our dependance on outside energy production?
This wasn’t a few years the making but decades.
The trigger for action to reduce our need on outside energy production should of been the first Gulf War but zilch.
A plan for a plan. What a shower of incompetent shite.
There are 5 ways the conservatively have catastrophically fucked up / and fucked us:
1. removing all grants for loft/cavity wall insulation – the number of these has plummeted from 1.3 million (2012) a year to 50k/year (2020). Companies like the Mark Group that fitted it went bust as a result. Imagine 10million homes now all super-insulated – and the effect on gas usage? People’s bills. Loft insulation pays for itself in ONE year.
2. Gordon Brown said all new homes by 2017 (gave them 10 years) should be net zero. Conservatives got rid of this even though house builders were starting to move that way and could have done. Some solar panels built into the roof would have been enough, or a ground-source heat-pump. Replacing tiles with solar panels would have meant less tiles. A lot of the cost of solar is days of scaffolding… but if you’re already building the house and it’s scaffolded then the net cost of solar at build is actually very low. ie. a £250 inverter and x number of 380w panels that cost <£100 each from China.
3. ROUGH – Shell’s giant undersea gas storage facility that could hold 2 months of gas was allowed to be closed. Not kept open as a strategic gas reservce. UK has 6 days of gas storage, Germany has 70 days, similar for Denmark. Last year gas prices crashed to an all time low (30p/therm). They’re now 19x higher. The literal gas in the storage would have more than paid for the billions of pounds to have maintained this for a decade. Also – this country is heavily reliant on gas – and seasonally – so buy low (summer, not a war, Covid), sell/use high.
4. onshore wind turbines – effectively banned.
5. Solar FIT totally removed to the point where payback went to 12+ years. A payment for generation that’s currently about 4p/kWh despite people paying 20,30,40p for the same kWh when they want to buy it.
Deploy Small Module Nuclear Reactors (speed up the audit and approval of them).
Allow wind farms on-land once again
Invest heavily in renewables to bring down price.
Promote WFH subsidies so you have less people needing cars, saving fuel.
Improve electrification of trains/public transport
Invest in insulation for UK.
>Boris Johnson promises energy strategy as Russia gas concerns grow
A Tory energy strategy (use that term loosely) has been in place for a decade or more… look where it has got us. We’d just get more of the same bullshit except more profits siphoned off to the private sector. Absolutely no fucking trust in anything they say and with good reason.
General information – we import less than 3% of all our gas from Russia.
There really is only one solution. Publicly owned energy companies.
Energy shouldn’t be a commodity sold to the highest bidder, it should be a service provided by the government to everyone at cost (with a little tagged on for investing in new generation technology).
“Boris Johnson promises……”
I nearly pissed myself laughing!
So does this mean he is going to make everything even more expensive and fuck things even more up?
Spoilers, the “strategy” is the same as every other Conservative strategy, rape the working class.
Johnson promises lots of things. It isn’t going to happen. Some of his mates will get a backhander for assessing this, then they will say they have ran out of cash. That is if Johnson is still around.