Power to people
Despite Europe facing its worst energy crisis since the Second World War, climate activists such as Greta Thunberg are trying to prevent the EU from easing and encouraging the investment in desperately needed new nuclear power plants and infrastructure and natural gas. Our energy prices are rocketing because our natural gas prices are now ten times more expensive than in the US, where cheap and abundant shale gas is keeping prices low.
It’s clear the EU and the UK – to say nothing of Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland – backed losers by prioritising and subsidising unreliable renewables over physically superior low-carbon energy from natural gas and nuclear power. We must give consumers relief by unwinding the extreme costs of our failing renewables fleets and start a programme of Combined Cycle Gas Turbine construction as well as a new generation of Small Modular Reactors.
(Dr) John Cameron, St Andrews, Fife
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