The UK parliament is being recalled for an emergency debate tomorrow as ministers fight to save Britain’s only surviving steel-making plant from imminent closure.
If the current geopolitical and economic uncertainties do not provide a sufficient case for greater resource independence and therefore the abandonment of an essentially performative but highly damaging set of “net zero” policies, the consequences of which have been studiously ignored, then nothing will.
Why does “British Steel” have to pay its’ current rate for energy? How is that set, is it inevitable?
Is it too fanciful a vision to consider a direct “supply cable” from the Yorkshire Coastal Wind farm up the Humber to the steelworks at Scunthorpe?
Imagination is the mother of creation.
In this case the creation of solutions.
also Brexit was a disaster for the UK steel industry.
If the current geopolitical and economic uncertainties do not provide a sufficient case for greater resource independence and therefore the abandonment of an essentially performative but highly damaging set of “net zero” policies, the consequences of which have been studiously ignored, then nothing will.