If you’ve already read yesterday’s post (Never Mind The Waves) about switching offshore wind farm funding to oil and natgas, then read on. If you haven’t, read that first, then this one.
Here’s what happens when you elect a government which supports rabid eco-freaks by giving them control of the rudder. Here’s the background:
North Sea Giant Ready To Exploit UK’s Biggest Oil Field This Year
Sounds good, dunnit? And then the sting:
Britain’s largest oil field could be producing thousands of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband approves the North Sea project.
Well, that didn’t take long did it? Because Miliband is the all-time believer in the “Wind Is Going To Save Us” school of thought — in fact, he’s the fucking headmaster.
So, to sum up: Britishland is sitting close to a gigantic oil and gas field — bigger than anything they’ve ever had before, and larger than anything in the North Sea — and all that has to happen is for Rubber Band to wave the starter’s flag.
Which he isn’t going to do, even if pressure is applied to him by a core Socialist Labour Party constituency:
The powerful Unite union added its voice to the clarion calls demanding the Energy Secretary change tack in the wake of a price spiral triggered by Donald Trump‘s war on Iran.
General Secretary Sharon Graham, who has cut funding for Labour in a row over party policy, said he should not ‘let go of one rope before having hold of another’.
‘We all know that whatever happens the UK will still need for oil and gas for decades to come and the war in Iran is just the latest reminder that when we rely on overseas production our energy security is at the mercy of global events,’ she said. This comes as the Conservatives are set to force a vote in the Commons demanding an end to the ‘sheer lunacy’ of a ban to reduce prices at the pump.
And here it is:
But facing MPs today, Mr Miliband suggested it was unimportant where the UK got its gas.
‘Gas is bought and sold on the international market so whether it comes from the North Sea or imported it is charged at the same price,’ he said.
He went on to praise the amount of money raised by a renewable energy action earlier this year, saying technology like wind turbines and solar panels were ‘homegrown power that we can rely on’.
You have to marvel at the idiocy of a man who sticks to this insane policy, even when time and time again all his guff is proven to be demonstrably false — when the winds drop and the sun doesn’t shine, and areas of the country go dark and people shiver because there’s no power to provide them warmth, as happened just this past winter.
Miliband is quite literally going to bring the UK to its knees.
And at some point you have to ask yourself whether he’s doing it out of the ignorance of policy, or just out of spite. Either way, the result is going to be the same.
He doesn’t just need to be kicked out of government; he needs to be given a free ticket on Air Pinochet.
…and all the more ironic if he were to be ejected right over the Rosebank field.
