Net zero delusion has broken Britain’s energy system, says Reform UK

A clear warning to UK energy bosses that the current costly net zero pathway with all its subsidies could become a dead end in a few years’ time. A long overdue return to economically credible energy policies, leaving largely speculative climate ideology behind, is on the horizon if enough voters want it.
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Britain is today less energy secure than ever before, says Richard Tice @ The Daily Telegraph (via Absolutely Not the Daily Troll-o-graph).

UK energy production has declined by 67pc over the past two decades. That means we have gone from a position of being a net exporter of energy, creating jobs and tax in this country to importing around half of our energy.

British bill-payers are creating jobs and tax revenue in other countries instead.

Last year marked a record low for UK energy production – despite there being decades worth of oil and gas left in the country and the Government dishing out billions in subsidies to wind and solar developers.

How has this been allowed to happen?

The answer is simple: policies from Labour and Conservative governments have been driven by the ideological pursuit of net zero to the detriment of energy security and ordinary taxpayers.

Policies like the Energy Profits Levy, also known as the windfall tax, have driven investors away from Britain and towards friendlier environments in the US, Brazil and Norway.

Government policy over several decades has deterred the industry from investing in this country and so has widened the gap between our energy demand and production.

Our natural gas import dependency is 50pc and by 2030 it is forecast to be 70pc or more. UK oil production has declined by 42pc and our gas production is down by 21pc since 2019.

Things are getting far worse.

The bureaucrats in Whitehall have decided that it is preferable to shut down domestic production and rely on foreign imports, assuming that this will inspire other countries to take stronger action on climate.
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Reform UK has already met with British oil and gas firms to tell them to get applications ready for a Reform UK victory at the next general election.

We will grant these applications on an urgent basis.
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Richard Tice is a Reform MP for Boston and Skegness and the party’s energy spokesman

Full article here.