However, that largesse is an area the new PM could address. If they end up in general taxation instead, households still have to foot the bill for the largesse that we hand out to windfarm operators. It’s the same story with removing green levies from electricity bills. Removing VAT from energy bills might bring relief of a kind, but without commensurate cuts in spending, it’s really just hiding the problem – dealing with symptoms rather than causes. Is there anything that can be done in the short term? The answer is not much. Emergency legislation will probably be required. Nevertheless, the new PM is going to have to get to grips with the issues, and soon. Shale gas is the only extractive industry which has to deal with such foolishness, and it was clear from its inception that it was a measure put in place by cowardly politicians as a means to kill off the industry.ĭomestic shale gas is not going to help us this winter, and probably not the winter after that either. Once they do, there is the absurd ‘traffic light’ system, which forces them stop work if there is even the slightest trembling in the ground. Once that is behind them, developers will once again need to deal with the protesters who prevent them going about their business and the disinformation campaigns: taps on fire, earthquakes, poisoned water, the whole mendacious kit and caboodle, all faithfully retransmitted by the corrupt mainstream media. Planning permissions for most of the projects have lapsed, so years of bureaucratic wrangling are in prospect. Who would put money into an industry that has already been condemned to death? Changing that perception is a major task for the incoming Prime Minister.Įven if financial backers can be found, it could still take years before we see any gas flow from UK shale beds. Successive governments have made it plain that they expect fossil fuels to disappear from our energy mix in the near future. For a start, any investor thinking of backing a shale gas project in the UK is bound to be very cautious. The shake-up that is needed if the energy crisis is not to become a permanent feature of life in this country is profound. Are they just telling party members what they want to hear? Or is there now a recognition that things are going to have to change? It remains unclear whether the Tory leadership candidates’ volte face is genuine. Fingers are going to be pointed at a lot of environmentalists, politicians, academics and journalists this winter. Surprisingly, criticism has been rather muted, and one can’t help but wonder if members of the Green Blob have belatedly started to come to terms with the scale of the disaster they have unleashed upon the country. RISHI Sunak and Liz Truss have both suddenly decided that fracking for gas could restart if communities support it.
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