So why is Britain - the world's fourth largest economy, a nuclear pioneer, blessed with wind, wave and tidal potential beyond the normal lot of nations, a once mighty coal producer, provider of innovators to the world, and with a generation's worth of North Sea booty to invest - facing an enormous shortfall in electricity provision while others are not?Three years ago the government commissioned a report on the impending energy crisis, and the report recommended heavily investing in renewable sources... and now we find ourselves on the cusp of constructing a few more will-end-up-as-radioactive-concrete-monoliths.
Of course, when a report you commissioned says something, the first thing one must do is the exact opposite of everything it found. Free ourselves from wobbly oil markets in the Middle-East? Yes! Canada has Uranium! Australia has Uranium! They're far from unstable, they're our allies! It's not like they need the uranium, it's only us that have a nuclear weapons programme of the three.
I thought that recent stormy weather had taught us something - namely, that the air is windy and the sea is choppy. Do we build wind turbines and wave power generators? No, we take lead of the French example. When did the Untied Kingdom start emulating France?
What's all that white water moving everywhere?... Nevermind, let's build a reactor hereObviously North Sea oil won't last forever (though after its discovery it was infinite if you believed the hype), so did we take lead of the Norwegian example and establish a Petroleum Fund (as the SNP have proposed in Scotland)? No, Tony and Jack McConnell stick two fingers up at my generation and future generations because they do not give a fuck about the situation beyond their political and biological time spans.
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