Well there we have it, Net Stupid..
Over the years, successive governments have closed coal mines, mostly because production was not needed and some because of fears of pollution, which is fair enough. There were 26 opencast sites in 2014, mainly in Scotland.
Back then, most coal was used for generating electricity and making steel. Less was being used for heating our homes because of pollution concerns. It was also used for fertilisers, chemicals, plastics, medicines and road surfaces.
Unfortunately since then, a madness has taken over and it’s called net zero. The notion that we can make our carbon emissions zero.
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In the pursuit of this ludicrous aim we’ve got rid of the last coal mines.
Instead we offset out emissions to China who are building coal mines at a rate of knots.
The Chinese make a billion or 1000 million tones of coal a year, we make just four million tons.
We’ve deindustrialised ourselves.
We’ve decided on no new oil and gas wells. Didn’t Ed Milliband order the sealing of Britain's final shale gas wells the one in Lancashire?
No fracking way.
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So instead we import it, which has a huge carbon footprint.
There was the closure of the UK's oldest oil refinery, Grangemouth, expected to result in the loss of approximately 400 jobs out of the 2,000 based at the site. But don’t worry, there’ll be green jobs in the future, whenever that is and whatever that means.
And we’ve sold off the bastion of our steel industry British Steel to Chinese operator, Jingye, who guessed? They aren’t that interested in keeping our industry alive as they have plants in China.
They warned the government that they are running out of the coking coal needed to keep the furnaces on, and as we don’t have any facilities to make it ourselves anymore and even though the operator is a private business, we would have to bail them out in some way.
Apparently, Jingye said the furnaces are no longer financially viable.
They’ve probably worked out that once the blast furnaces are switched off, then we’ll have to buy from them anyway in China.
Instead of being able to produce our own coking coal, we have created a situation which we have inflicted on ourselves.
We would now have to import coking coal from somewhere like Japan which takes approximately 45 days, by that time the blast furnaces would have gone out and from what I understand, once that happens, they cannot be switched back on..
The government are now sitting today to, Saturday, to create new laws to give them the power to take ownership of British Steel.
We’ve even strangled our car industry by punishing it. If EV targets are not met then a charge of £15K a car is levied, although this week the government generously announced they’ll reduce that to £13k. How good of them.
It is time to end this Net Zero nonsense. We are one planet, so wherever the emissions occurs, it contributes to global CO2 levels.. So there is no point trying to look good by destroying industry in this country for a frankly pointless, grandstanding target. Nothing short of nationalising our steel industry is acceptable.
