Not passing on record profits of energy companies was the disaster. With that and the govt taking less tax of fuel we wouldnt have noticed the “crisis” on those two things.
At some point in the next century the planet will just say no. Its just reckless to carry on burning coal.
No, closing them was **not** “a disaster”, it was a necessity.
Failing to create a diversity of generation, failing to ensure sufficient generation capacity, failing to ensure adequate storage, and effectively creating a single point of failure in fuel supply *was* a disaster.
Terrible one sided, non nuanced article written in ignorance.
I work at a coal station
Closing down coal fired power stations was not a disaster. The failure to carry out the planned transition to renewables and trusting to pretended market forces was a disaster.
The more nuanced version:
Closing them *too early and with no better option in place* was a disaster.
Closing so many of them *completely* and demolishing them, rather than keeping a handful available for those rare but inescapable occasions when we’re desperately short of generation, was a disaster.
The bloody Dash for Gas, now *that* was a real disaster.
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No it wasnt.
Not passing on record profits of energy companies was the disaster. With that and the govt taking less tax of fuel we wouldnt have noticed the “crisis” on those two things.
At some point in the next century the planet will just say no. Its just reckless to carry on burning coal.
No, closing them was **not** “a disaster”, it was a necessity.
Failing to create a diversity of generation, failing to ensure sufficient generation capacity, failing to ensure adequate storage, and effectively creating a single point of failure in fuel supply *was* a disaster.
Terrible one sided, non nuanced article written in ignorance.
I work at a coal station
Closing down coal fired power stations was not a disaster. The failure to carry out the planned transition to renewables and trusting to pretended market forces was a disaster.
The more nuanced version:
Closing them *too early and with no better option in place* was a disaster.
Closing so many of them *completely* and demolishing them, rather than keeping a handful available for those rare but inescapable occasions when we’re desperately short of generation, was a disaster.
The bloody Dash for Gas, now *that* was a real disaster.