That’s the night the lights went out in Georgia Britain:
Official papers show that consumers will be hit by an ‘energy gap’ when a number of existing power stations are shut down.
Nine oil and coal-fired power plants are to close by 2015 because of an EU directive designed to limit pollution and associated acid rain. At the same time, four ageing nuclear power plants will be shut.
In all, experts say, the decommissioning of power stations will see 37 per cent of the UK’s generation capacity disappear by 2015.
Ministers have recently embraced new nuclear power plants as a way of closing the gap, but replacements will not be ready in time.
They are talking about being short anywhere between 3,000 and 7,000 megawatt hours a year. That, my friends, is a big shortfall. They will have to roll blackouts in order to hold the grid. Britain is about to go third world.
Can’t happen here, right? Oh wait, crap and tax legislation is pending here.
Dear EU,
It is with great regret that we must announce that we can not meet your pollution standard requirements in the time allotted for compliance. We shall be delighted to fully comply with these requirements just as soon as replacement production capacity is available for use. In the mean time, bugger off.
Delightfully Yours,
The Citizens of The United Kingdom
Why should we be the only ones who suffer from this Crap & Tax stuff? And, of course, the idiot Dem,ocrats are still so paranoid about nuclear power (thank you, Jane Fonda – something else to be pissed at her about, and you Russian idiots that couldn’t manage to do anything right) we won’t be getting any more of that any time soon, either.
It will be a race to see whether the UK or California has blackouts first.