The fairy tale of Labour’s Brothers Grim – NetZeroWatch

Exaggerating for effect is normal in election campaigning. It’s the likely result of trying to achieve what is being proposed for the UK electricity network, in the name of woolly climate theories, that’s the problem here.
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Labour’s energy plans are best described as ‘utterly puerile’, says Andrew Montford @ NZW.

Their very own Brothers Grim – Mr Starmer and Mr Miliband – have come out with a set of ideas that would be quite at home in the pages of a fairy story.

This is clear from the off, the party’s manifesto discussing what it calls ‘the climate and nature crisis’ and the ‘opportunity for growth’ represented by ‘clean energy’, which it says will help tackle the cost of living crisis.

It’s hard to know how to respond to such delusions.

As NZW readers know, the ‘climate emergency’ is a superstition. And growth in renewables has, of course, been accompanied by a steady rise in electricity prices; the two moved in lockstep from 2002 to 2020, the eve of the Ukraine war.

If insanity is doing the same thing again and again, and expecting different results, then the Brothers Grim need straitjackets as soon as humanly possible.

The manifesto as a whole is entirely lacking in any meaningful detail. We learn that it will create 650,000 skilled jobs. So that is an extra £25 billion or so that we need to find. And where are these people coming from? The North Sea oil and gas industry doesn’t employ anything like that many.

We are also told that Labour will “double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030”. The idea that this much capacity could be delivered in the space of six years is utterly absurd.
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As with the other energy manifestos so far, Labour’s effort is a fairy tale, entirely devoid of any connection to engineering or economic realities. It is best handled with ridicule.

Full article here.
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