Green anger as ministers promise new gas power plants ‘to avoid blackouts’

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• Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t this the moment to make a proper break from fossil fuel?

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, we passed that 25 years ago without even acknowledging it

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    • Officer_Pickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sadly I hadn’t considered that. 😔. Still, isn’t now an opportunity as well?

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• YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ‘The Government did not give any details about when or where the power stations would be built.’

  This is the important bit. As frustrating as these ‘commitments’ are there’s no guarantee they’ll even happen.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …because it’s courting the anti-green vote. Since the Ruislip result they think being anti-green will save them. Thing is, most people support being able to breathe clean air.

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  • Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or it’s an announcement: Fuck you, we are doing it anyway and we don’t care about telling you where, when, how, much it cost, or who is profiting.

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    • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe. Given this governments track record I only believe something is going to happen when it actually does, not when it’s revealed, committed, unveiled pledged or otherwise. We’ll see I guess.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are they still announcing plans? The ship is sinking and they’re announcing plans to have a committee to discuss the rearranging of deck chairs.

  The about five steps back from too late to implement anything.

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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Money into soon to be stranded assets? Guess they pissed lots of other money up the wall…

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