God forbid they invest in modern nuke reactors that can drop the price of electricity substantially. Or at least maintain proven energy production until *after* pie-in-the-sky wind and solar projects start actually showing positive return. No, instead they’ll burn all their energy “bridges” and not look back, and if folks die due to lack of planning, well that’s just the price of progress, right?
At least here in India, they have a (feeble) excuse that energy production has never been that reliable, so it’s expected (though unfortunate) that cold(ish) weather does mean exposure deaths. And this year there are already rumors that this winter will be particularly chilly (unusually long monsoon plus lingering effects of the cyclone).
A pretty ironic comment, given that the British government, having made a decision six years ago to invest in 10 new reactors, failed until last week to persuade any energy company to build the things without huge subsidy. Now, finally, a deal has been signed with a French, Chinese-backed company to build the first post-Fukushima reactor: but only with a huge bribe, an inflation-linked 50-year guarantee of a unit consumer price more than twice the current level.