Not the will of the people

[fatJock]

Coal and gas supplies are finite, the UK should go nuclear.

Building a new reactor at Hinkley Point and another one potentially in the mix at Sizewell. I’m working for a firm on the supply chain perimeter of Hinkley Point C.

[vetran]

Once they've done with Lancash1te, any chance they move on to Yorksh1te. Hopefully we can get rid of the North in the next few years at this rate.

Maybe if we frack in a straight line across the region the top half will shear off and we solve the west Lothian question?

[scooterscot]

The Zohr gas field discovered in the last couple of years off Egypt's coast is amongst the largest ever recorded. Exported gas will be plenty cheap and easy since it's only a matter of sailing out of the med and round the corner. It'll be far cheaper than can be achieved with the fracking process. Why or why is the government not negotiating for plenty cheap energy supply from Egypt instead of tearing up the countryside? When you don't have an engineer or scientist in the government there'll never be any educated decisions made.

[Mordac]

The Zohr gas field discovered in the last couple of years off Egypt's coast is amongst the largest ever recorded. Exported gas will be plenty cheap and easy since it's only a matter of sailing out of the med and round the corner. It'll be far cheaper than can be achieved with the fracking process. Why or why is the government not negotiating for plenty cheap energy supply from Egypt instead of tearing up the countryside? When you don't have an engineer or scientist in the government there'll never be any educated decisions made.

It may be cheaper on paper, but is it not economically more sensible to produce energy rather than import it? The jobs boost to local economies alone would be far more beneficial. Then there's all that lovely tax. I'm willing to bet the Treasury can't wait for fracking to start in earnest...

[Paddy]

It may be cheaper on paper, but is it not economically more sensible to produce energy rather than import it? The jobs boost to local economies alone would be far more beneficial. Then there's all that lovely tax. I'm willing to bet the Treasury can't wait for fracking to start in earnest...

Go to Egypt and look around, 99.9999% desert.
Anywhere in the UK, highly populated and agricultural

[Mordac]

Go to Egypt and look around, 99.9999% desert.
Anywhere in the UK, highly populated and agricultural

Well done for clearly not reading either Scooty's post or mine. The gas is offshore, for starters, and what does Egypt being largely desert have to do with the economic argument for producing, rather than importing energy?