Posted on 09/18/2022 10:02:56 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Or open British coal mines. The UK has large coal.fields unused
That's a pretty high bar, but hey she might do it.
Boris spent all his time as PM trying to find a hair stylist and failed.
This is a good step forward.
I thought he was just looking for a comb!
Too little too late. The Brits are in for a hard winter and lots of pensioners may likely succumb to the effects of cold temperatures due to the lack of home heating. Will King Charles continue with his climate change blithering in the face of his subjects freezing to death remains to be seen.
You filthy sexist! Actually, I was thinking the same thing.
Same here!
Unfortunately most of the geologically suitable sites in the UK are either in densely populated areas or in national parks etc. The ban happened because of the vehement local opposition to the pilot exploratory schemes (not from the usual rentacrowd).
Although some schemes will probably now get through, it’s unlikely they’ll make a game-changing contribution
Nope.
The UK used to be one of the top producers o oil in the world.
Source of most of the oil?
The North Sea, where Norway continues to produce and export huge amounts of oil and natural for domestic use and exports.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/energy/oil-and-gas/norways-oil-history-in-5-minutes/id440538/
I am sure Liz Truss ( a very smart lady) knows a heck of a lot more about whee Britain's oil/gas reserves probably are at than some raving “green” leftist like you in America does.
Nope. You gotta start at some time. And Britain probably has some pretty big reserves.
They will be in a much better, stronger position on their local supply of energy than Germany in another couple of years.
The Brits are in for a hard winter and lots of pensioners may likely succumb to the effects of cold temperatures due to the lack of home heating
Nope.
Did you even read the article?
From the article and I quote:
“Truss announced a cap on consumer energy bills for two years in a package that could cost around 150 billion pounds ($173 billion, €173 billion).”
The government will subsidizer energy bills for the needy for the next 2 years, until new local productions comes online.
And they still have huge reserves:
Sorry, I should have made it clear that I was commenting only and specifically about fracking (which is, after all, the headline of the article!), not other methods of fossil fuel extraction. Of course you’re right that there are still unexploited reserves of undersea oil and gas. It’s specifically the terrestrial sites suitable for fracking which are sparse and locally politically contentious. And there are still, incidentally, massive reserves of coal, which may yet have its day again.
(And thank you, incidentally also, for calling me a leftist and assuming I’m American - both of which are unfamiliar experiences!)
"He said that when Cuadrilla had operated here, it had discovered that the geology of the UK was unsuited to widespread fracking operations. “No sensible investors” would take the risk of embarking on large projects here, he said. “It’s very challenging geology, compared with North America [where fracking is a major industry].
"Unlike the gas-bearing shale deposits in the US, the shale resource in the UK is 'heavily faulted and compartmentalised', making it far harder to exploit at any scale."
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