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More Natural Gas?

By Eric McErlain
British pundit George Monbiot has reevaluated his stance on the U.K. energy situation, and he's concluded that the solution is more natural gas:
This winter, we nearly had to do without it altogether. First Russia's state-controlled producer Gazprom cut the supplies to Europe to show Ukraine where real power still lay; then the private monopolists in the European Union appeared to restrict the flow through the "interconnector" that supplies the United Kingdom. At just the wrong moment - February 16 - the UK's main gas storage facility (on the Rough Field in the North Sea) blew up. Centrica, the company which runs it, predicted then that it would remain closed for a month. A month later, the company said it would be shut until May. Now its spokesman tells me that it will be back in business "from June 1". The "from" does not inspire confidence.
Remember, this is from an article that supports the expanded use of natural gas, and blocking the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain.

Some people never learn.

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Anonymous said…
Sounds about right for the moonbats: advocate using something that is unreliable and you deplete by burning it up, and oppose something that you can get and is reliable and depletes very slowly, if at all. Oh, well, no one said you had to have a brain to be a moonbat.
April 25, 2006 at 12:17 PM
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