John Powell, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, also welcomed the return to production in Teeside, saying it provides \u201ca little more security should things change.\u201d <\/p>\n
It would be \u201cpreferable to have that domestic supply\u201d for long-term food security, he said, while also stressing there is \u201cno immediate concern about food supplies,\u201d and \u201cour CO2 supply is still fully functional.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lessons learned<\/p>\n
Chris Elliott, a professor of food policy at Queen\u2019s University Belfast, said the current strain on CO2 supplies reflects a pattern of repeated vulnerability in the U.K.\u2019s manufacturing base, particularly in sectors such as fertilizer production, which also generates CO2 as a key byproduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe severity of the current situation has been compounded by earlier decisions taken during the Ukraine war and subsequent energy crisis, when key U.K. fertilizer plants closed and the government failed to provide sustained support to maintain this strategically vital domestic capacity,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that the U.K. now finds itself facing renewed shortages suggests that few, if any, meaningful lessons were learned by the government from the CO2 crisis triggered by the Ukraine war.\u201d<\/p>\n
A government spokesperson said: \u201cWe took decisive action last month to shore up the UK\u2019s critical supplies of CO2 by temporarily restarting the Ensus bioethanol plant in Teesside and are continuing to work closely with business groups to tackle the impacts of events in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Powell, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, also welcomed the return to production in Teeside,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[582,7384,2095,630,516,517,361,234,2737,588,589,7385,7386,5678,1921,502,7387,5963,591,42,2965,7388,6372,460,167,168,5,523,6,461,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-15601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-animal-welfare","9":"tag-beverages","10":"tag-carbon","11":"tag-co2","12":"tag-conflict","13":"tag-crisis","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-energy-crisis","17":"tag-farmers","18":"tag-farms","19":"tag-feed","20":"tag-fertilizers","21":"tag-food-security","22":"tag-healthcare","23":"tag-industry","24":"tag-livestock","25":"tag-manufacturing","26":"tag-meat","27":"tag-middle-east","28":"tag-peter-kyle","29":"tag-produce","30":"tag-resilience","31":"tag-security","32":"tag-supply-chains","33":"tag-trade","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-ukraine","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116418088955860627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}