Tim Yeo, MP, Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee in the British Parliament, in reacting to the government’s pro-gas stance:
“Lumbering the UK economy with a centralized power system largely reliant on gas, would be like running an office using a fax machine in the age of the iPad,” he said.
Mr. Yeo went on:
“Shale gas seems to have seduced some in government into premature confidence that it is an energy panacea,” he argued. “A golden calf that can meet all of our energy needs cheaply and even revive lost manufacturing industries.
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“History will not look kindly on those who would have us fossilize our energy system by relying too heavily on gas.”
Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 