It's a gas10 Mar 2022 09:53
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10584485/How-orgy-green-virtue-signalling-lined-Vladimir-Putins-pocket.html
How an orgy of green virtue-signalling lined Vladimir Putin's pocket: Energy security was sacrificed on the altar of 'decarbonisation', writes STEVE HILTON
By Steve Hilton Former Director Of Strategy For David Cameron For The Daily Mail
01:19, 07 Mar 2022 , updated 01:24, 07 Mar 2022
Europe's dependence on Russia for around 40 per cent of the continent's gas supplies isn't some kind of natural phenomenon; it's a conscious political choice.
As recently as 2010, EU countries actually produced more gas than Russia exported.
But, by 2020, the positions had completely reversed, with Russia exporting nearly three times more gas than Europe produced. Why? Because, being in thrall to the green dogma that has captured the Establishment the world over, European countries cut back on fossil-fuel production.
Energy security was sacrificed on the altar of 'decarbonisation' – even if that meant reducing production and the storage of reliable lower-carbon energy sources such as natural gas, or most preposterously, a policy towards zero-carbon nuclear power, which meant it was completely shut down in Germany and left to atrophy in the UK.