The UK shale gas fiasco. A disgraceful dereliction of duty.

This week we have had to listen to the government promising that at last, the UK will start taking the issue of extracting the vast reserves of tight gas from the known reserves we have here.  I will believe this when I see it.

This useless government is in thrall to the lunatic Ed Davey who is foisting windmills by the hundred and higher bills on the country, at the same time as allowing perfectly workable coal fired power stations to be closed to placate the EU. He is very anti shale gas, and can be expected to obstruct this with all his might. He MUST be removed from office, but the coward in No.10 will prevaricate and prefer instead to just settle for a few headlines.

This week we have also had the first clear signs of what some of us have been saying for a few years now. That "brown outs" or controlled power cuts are inevitable. Because- although they do not say this in public- we are closing down too much capacity to satisfy fanatics in Brussells.

So a common sense approach to shale gas exploration is very unlikely given the hopeless and disconnected thinking by this government, not to mention the disgraceful neglect of the issue by the last one.

Really. Trust me. Buy a generator!