Credit: mygridgb.co.uk
H/T The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
Relying on interconnectors to get out of trouble when the wind isn't blowing won't be a good plan long-term, when most of Europe is pushing its own wind-dependent electricity plans forward. Nuclear and coal are largely fading out of the UK scene, so for industrial-scale reliable power it has to be gas or bust in the end, whether UK-sourced or not.
The chairman of Britain's biggest private company has accused the government of using "slippery back door manoeuvres" to kill off fracking in the UK, reports City A.M.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire founder of Ineos, said the government is sticking to a plan which is "unworkable, unhelpful and playing politics with the country's future".
Ratcliffe hit out at a system which forces fracking to halt the moment minor seismic activity is detected around the site, saying it would prevent the UK from following the US's booming shale market.
Britain's limit of 0.5 points on the Richter scale is over 3,000 times lower than the 4.0 level in the US where just one well is producing more gas than the entire British North Sea.
"The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy seems to lack a basic understanding of the Richter Scale. It is a logarithmic scale. The limit within the United States is typically set at 4.0 – a level that the US Environmental Protection Agency feels is safe and will not lead to any damage to land, property or people," Ratcliffe said.
"To put that into perspective, magnitude 4.0 is 3,162 times higher than 0.5 and 177,827 times stronger in terms of energy release."
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