BRITISH POWER!14 Apr 2025 18:27
Some parliamentarians and FAR RIGHT media commentators placed the blame for Britain’s declining steel industry on the energy secretary, FALSLEY claiming that his net zero policies and lack of support for a proposed coalmine in Cumbria had made the energy and coking coal used to make steel more expensive.
But EXPERTS have said this characterisation is COMPLETELY FALSE (no surprise there then eh!) . Prof Rob Gross, the director of the UK Energy Research Centre said:''THE CLEAN POWER MISSION WILL ACTUALLY HELP SAVE THE STEEL INDUSTRY!''
“High energy prices in the UK undoubtedly play a role in the problems faced by steelmakers. But high energy prices are absolutely not created by net zero policies. Britain is acutely exposed to fluctuations in gas prices, and the gas price also drives UK electricity prices more than in other countries.
“BRITAIN'S AMAZING WIND RESOURCES offer CHEAP, STABLE energy prices. We NEED to build the infrastructure of clean power so we can have cheap power for decades. The drive for CLEAN ENERGY ALSO CREATS A LARGE DEMAND, FOR STEEL, for wind farms, nuclear power stations and pylons.”
FAR RIGHT LOONS claimed the cancellation of a coalmine in Cumbria had led to the decline of British steel. The Tory MP Graham Stuart said: “We have a government which is shipping coking coal from Japan when it was perfectly possible to have the greenest production of coking coal in the world in Cumbria with thousands of jobs.” Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform and Russian puppet said the government had “declined” the “opportunity to use British coal from Cumbria”.
BUT (and it's a BIG BUT!) THE COKING COAL FROM THAT WAS TO BE PRODUCED FROM THIS MINE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OF HIGH ENOUGH QUALITY TO BE USED IN THE STEEL WORKS, WITH AT LEAST 85% EARMARKED FOR EXPORT. This is because of its HIGH SULPHUR CONTENT.
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