Desperate U.K. Turns to Shale Gas

[Nihil]

9. That is a blatant lie.

> To meet emissions goals, the U.K. is reluctantly turning to fracking of shale gas.

1) Shale gas is not necessary to meet our emissions goals.

2) There is no "reluctance" when the policies are being driven by the fossil fuel industry itself
and ably supported by the bought-out politicians & their handlers, oops, "advisors".


> But the government had been planning to slash emissions with low-carbon power
> strategies—new nuclear reactors and carbon capture and storage systems on existing
> power plants—that remain too expensive to build.

Not just "too expensive" but, in the case of CCS, completely fictional fabrications of
a "strategy". New nuclear could only happen by means of expansion on existing sites
(e.g., new or replacement reactors at existing nuclear power stations) and there have
been no surprises about either the space available for this option or the degree of pushback
from the people who oppose it.

> it might have to restart mothballed coal-fired power plants

Again, that is not another "Oh dear, we're being *forced* to do this" but is another explicit
goal of the entire UK government (driven by the greed of the Conservatives, supported by
the pandering of the Lib Dems and not opposed by the sycophants of Labour in case they
are seen as upsetting the coal mining unions).

And anyone who is taken in by "a partnership between industrial firms and the U.K. government"
needs their gullibilty meter recalibrating.