Re: Fracking - fame at last for Lancashire
 

I suppose that takes this thread full circle Mrw..... fracking a yorkie....fame at last.

Re: Fracking - fame at last for Lancashire
 

Might as well stick this in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfB8ERk8L4

Hope someone remembered to bring the tube steaks and the marshmallows.;)

Re: Fracking - fame at last for Lancashire
 

So, we're sat on 50 to 100 years of our own gas which would fuel conventional power stations (quick and relatively cheap to build) but we give the French(and Chinese) a £90 billion contract for a nuclear station(cost £16 billion) to supply electricity at twice the current price for 35 years! That price is inflation linked as well, so heads they win, tails we lose.
The Finnish nuclear plant has had wildly escalating costs and is years behind schedule so the 10 years delivery date for ours could well fail. When finished it will only supply 7% of our usage anyway.
Are we mad? We have an energy asset which the Chinese, Japanese,French etc would die for.
The Chinese are burning so much poor quality coal in their power stations that they can't see across the road for the smog. But we have to set an example, whatever the cost. Mad!

Re: Fracking - fame at last for Lancashire
 

The answer to 'are we mad'......is, well, those who hold the purse strings......our money most certainly are....or perhaps they aren't.....perhaps they are getting a nice fat hand out from someone for rubber stamping this deal.

No, they wouldn't do that would they?

The politicians are those who have no worries about how to heat their homes......we pay for it for them.
They are not going to be forced to make the choice of whether to heat....or eat, either now or in the future.
If I sound disillusioned with those who run this country, well, maybe it is because
I AM!

Re: Fracking - fame at last for Lancashire
 

because their electricity runs on broken prommises