I find it hard to reconcile these two stories:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/60259/Blackout-Britain-warningBritain is “quite simply running out of power” and blackouts are almost inevitable within the next few years.
But, when we try to build them we get this:
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/09/ecoterrorism-vi.html (This is a via link - I couldn't stomach posting the Greenpeace link)
In the first link you'll read that Mr Dunsford [Campbell Dunford of the respected Renewable Energy Foundation ] says: "worse was to come: “Certainly we’re going to be heading to eight or nine million in fuel poverty.
“The people who are vulnerable are old people and the single mums. They rely on power."
Meanwhile, in the second link, you'll read the Greenpeace quote: "To recap on how important this verdict is: the
defendants campaigners were accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth smokestack from painting. The defence was that they had 'lawful excuse' - because they were acting to protect property around the world "in immediate need of protection" from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal. "
I feel we are living in a Monty Python sketch, not the real world anymore.