Date: 18/09/21
GWPF & The Times
As energy prices in Europe go through the roof, factories are beginning to shut down and food is disappearing from the shelves. Welcome to green Britain, offering a foretaste of what life will be like under Net Zero conditions – poorer, colder, hungrier – unless Government changes course.
Acute food shortages were feared last night after high gas prices forced most of Britain’s commercial production of carbon dioxide to shut down.
Emergency talks were being held between government officials and food producers, retailers and the energy industry with warnings of a “black swan event”, an extremely rare blow with unpredictable consequences.
The closure of two fertiliser plants in northern England and others in Europe has left the food and drink industry facing a shortage of carbon dioxide, which is a byproduct of fertiliser manufacturing. The gas is critical to the production and transport of a range of products, from meat to bread, beer and fizzy drinks.
The meat industry estimates that businesses can carry on for less than two weeks before carbon dioxide stocks run out….
This article is nonsense. The problem is that the government has failed to encourage enough renewable energy to be generated (tidal stream – woefully under-invested, Cardiff Tidal Lagoon – not backed, Solar Power – not enough building regs to require it on new builds and public buildings, Wind Turnbines – nimbyism. And the carbon dioxide shortage is absolutely nothing to do with renewables. In fact, if we had fewer renewables, the problem would be far worse.
Israel has discovered plenty of gas and is willing to sell it, go and talk to them, there are lots of countries willing to sell energy.
Why is England not doing their own air scrubbing? It would leave more jobs for everyone there would be carbon dioxide for the food industry and the air would be cleaner there is no downside I can see.