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ENERGY POLICY SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PURELY SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF ENERGY PRODUCTION — NOT ROLLING OUT FUNDAMENTALLY INEFFICIENT AND UNDER-DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES IN PURSUIT OF POLITICAL GLOBAL WARMING MYTHS.

OUR POLICIES — AT A GLANCE

SHORT TERM

  • SHORT-TERM : A POLICY BASED ON FACTS NOT MYTHS.
  • Abolition of UN Kyoto and Paris Commitments To Implement Bogus 'Global Warming' Measures.
  • Reduction In The UK's Dependence On Imported Energy Sources.
  • A Reversal of The Large-Scale, Premature Roll-Out of Inefficient Under-Developed Renewable Technologies.
  • All Bio-Fuel Crops Abolished.
  • Fracking — Existing Licences Terminated and No New Licences Granted.
  • A Drive For Energy Efficiency.
  • All Credible Heath-Robinson Ideas Investigated.

MEDIUM TERM

  • MEDIUM-TERM : NECESSARY CONTINUED DEPENDENCE ON OIL, GAS and NUCLEAR POWER.
  • Gas Transmission Network Phased Out.
  • OIL, GAS and COAL : Continuing To Provide The Bulk Of UK Energy Needs With Domestic Oil, Gas and Coal Resources Exploited To The Last Economic Drop and Nugget.
  • NUCLEAR : No More Nuclear Power Stations Built and Existing Stations Not Replaced.
  • ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES : Large Investment In Researching New Technologies and Meeting An Increasing Percentage of UK Energy Needs

LONG TERM

  • LONG-TERM GOAL : 90% NATIONAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FROM 100% RENEWABLE SOURCES.
  • Await The Arrival of The Next-Generation Means of Efficient Large-Scale Energy Production Before Committing Taxpayers Money To the Huge Infrastructure Costs Associated With A New Technology.
  • Micro-Generation : Favour Energy Technologies Operating At The Level Of Individual Homes and Businesses — Largely Removing The Need For Unsightly and Expensive Transmission Networks.
  • Public Ownership Of All Energy Production and Transmission Infrastructure.

An Energy Policy Based On Realities Not Myths

Many leading environmental scientists from across the globe do not accept the claims of the ideologically-motivated environmentalist lobby, that recent increases in industrial activity has lead to increased CO2 production which has caused global warming — which will lead to rises in sea levels and all of which can be reversed by controlling industrial CO2 production.


From a purely factual perspective, the science, from across many disciplines, seems very strongly to indicate that although CO2 levels and global temperatures are connected, human activity accounts for less than 1% of CO2 in the atmosphere and the direction of causation lies in completely the opposite direction — the earth's temperature, levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and sea-levels rising and falling for thousands of years and in sync with and caused by variations in solar activity. The assertion that global warming is caused by industrial carbon dioxide emissions therefore has no basis in science or reality.


IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that measures introduced to counteract 'global warming' also implement the globalists' usual themes of :

- long-term global agreements (that bind national governments) and ultimately the global institutions to implement and administer them

- controlling business activity — for e.g. preventing the third runway at Heathrow, and

- intruding into and commanding the daily habits of individual citizens' everyday lives.


It is high time those peddling the lie of man-made global warming stopped misinforming the public and cynically preying upon the minds and idealism of younger generations — seeking to enlist them in the anti-democrats' usual miserable cause of inflexible, top-down, (oh so) controlling, totalitarian supra-national government.

WITHOUT THE DISTRACTION OF MYTHS AND THE NEED TO FOREVER SEEK INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT BEFORE TAKING ACTION, THE ALL-OUT FOCUS CAN BE ON THE REAL ENERGY ISSUES, AND GOVERNMENT CAN BE ABOUT THE PURELY TECHNICAL BUSINESS OF MEETING THE NATION'S LONG-TERM ENERGY NEEDS.

OUR POLICIES

SHORT-TERM :

A POLICY BASED ON FACTS NOT MYTHS



Abolition of UN Kyoto and Paris Commitments To Implement Bogus 'Global Warming' Measures

The policy of meeting Britain's Kyoto (and Paris) Protocol obligations by building gas-fired power stations, which are dangerously dependent on a non-renewable fuel imported from unstable and hostile nations will be abandoned. All associated 'Carbon-Tax' and CO2 emissions-based laws, regulations and distinctions will also be abolished.


Reduction In The UK's Dependence On Imported Energy Sources

In the short-term there is a limit to what can be done, but a review will be commissioned to assess the viability of expanding domestic oil, gas and coal production and a cost-benefit analysis made of the construction of additional gas storage tanks in the UK which at present are rather small (to minimise the current need for the winter buy-back at high prices of our own surplus summer energy sold abroad at low prices).



A Reversal of The Large-Scale, Premature Roll-Out of Inefficient Under-Developed Renewable Technologies


WIND TURBINES

Whilst this party applauds previous administrations' commitment to alternative energy, the large-scale roll-out in recent years of wind turbines has been a pretty extraordinary decision — since the technology is fundamentally inefficient and will always remain so. It also entails covering vast areas of the country — land and sea — with metal towers hundreds of feet high! Sadly, this is the kind of madness that inevitably follows from the politicising of what should be the purely scientific and commercial business of energy production. The building of all new wind farms will be halted and, if energy supply is sufficient from other sources and likely to remain so into the long-term, most existing installations will be dismantled.


SOLAR FARMS

Similarly, although not such an eyesore, covering acres and acres of prime farmland with tens of thousands of solar panels that combined can only produce sufficient power for a few thousand homes does seem a waste of the ultimate scarce resource — land. We will conduct a review of the costs and benefits before permitting any further solar farms to be built.



All Bio-Fuel Crops Abolished

Bio-fuels should not be supported or encouraged since using great swathes of land for fuel consumption rather than for animal or crop farming or for leisure is an appalling waste of the ultimate limited natural resource. The land is for people, animals and crops — not for engines.


Fracking — Existing Licences Terminated and No New Licences Granted.

Consistent with our policy of awaiting the clean alternative energy source of the future, rather than continuing to seek to extract energy from difficult, costly and messy subterranean sources, we will terminate all current fracking licences and not grant any more licences in the future.

A Drive For Energy Efficiency

A commitment to energy efficiency should not be driven by overwhelming concern for environmental factors (which are founded on political considerations rather than scientific ones) but by a concern for as much energy self-sufficiency as possible (to prevent future dependence on unreliable external supply) and cheaper energy bills for the consumer.

Insulation

We will therefore promote and subsidise insulation products (possible through the use of recycled material) and cheap double glazing for warmer, cheaper homes.



All Credible Heath-Robinson Ideas Investigated

Energy production is an area where amateur ideas and DIY prototypes abound and apparently ludicrous claims made for their efficiency. Given the truly massive potential of even the grain of a single new and genuinely workable idea, rather than automatically dismiss all such ideas (many from people with a strong science-based background) we will invite all-comers to submit their ideas for assessment. Any ideas showing promise would be prototyped and the results analysed further. The originator of any idea subsequently incorporated into an eventual source of energy production will be rewarded financially — with the expectation that this would amount to many £ millions. It will be a time for the Heath-Robinsons of the UK and beyond to 'either put up or shut up'.


MEDIUM-TERM :

NECESSARY CONTINUED DEPENDENCE ON OIL, GAS and NUCLEAR POWER



OIL, GAS and COAL : Continuing To Provide The Bulk Of UK Energy Needs With Domestic Oil, Gas and Coal Resources Exploited To The Last Economic Drop and Nugget

Electricity generation from oil, gas and coal are safe processes that currently supply 80% of UK energy needs, and in the medium-term, due to the lack of any viable alternatives, this should remain the case. There are potentially decades of further resources under UK sea and soil and every effort should be made to extract as much of them as possible — as it is both the cheapest and simplest way to move from old to new renewable technologies whilst increasing our energy independence and without the need to rely on nuclear generation as a stop-gap measure.

Gas Transmission Network Phased Out

Although gas will remain a widespread medium-term source of energy we will stop connecting any additional homes to the national gas supply network and gradually phase out the supply network itself. The present network has always been a source of regular leaks, is expensive to maintain and duplicates the energy transmission network of the much more flexible energy source of electricity. Customers wanting to continue with gas will be able to do so through bottled and tank-based Calor gas services as at present.

NUCLEAR : No More Nuclear Power Stations Built and Existing Stations Not Replaced

Any industrial process that is so highly dangerous in operation that it is a target for terrorists and produces a by-product that remains fatally toxic for hundreds of years must be viewed as a last resort. Therefore, whilst the nuclear contribution to national energy resources will remain significant for several decades it should be allowed to steadily decline as existing stations reach the end of their economic lives and not replaced. New nuclear power stations should only be built as a very last resort.

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES : Large Investment In Researching New Technologies and Meeting An Increasing Percentage of UK Energy Needs

In the medium-term, the development of a truly viable means of cheap large-scale energy production is unlikely, but we will invest substantial resources and employ the best minds in the search, and due to the very large sums involved, actively seek to create joint international research projects in this area. Even technologies showing moderate potential will only be rolled-out in a limited way — up to approx. 10% of Britain's energy needs — in anticipation of the arrival of technologies such as fusion or hydrogen cells with potential to provide truly game-changing benefits.



LONG-TERM GOAL :

90% NATIONAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FROM 100% RENEWABLE SOURCES



Establishing 90% National Security of Supply

With output from our North sea oil and gas supplies in decline and very little coal production, Britain is now more dependent than ever on imported coal and gas. With world energy demands escalating due to the rapid industrialisation of formerly under-developed nations such as China and India, and existing Middle Eastern Oil and Russian Gas supplies susceptible to price-hikes and politically-motivated interruptions of supply (e.g. supply to the Ukraine, and the EU linking the supply of energy to fishing quotas in the Brexit Deal), it would be foolish to allow ourselves to become helplessly dependent on others for our core energy needs.


However, in furtherance of a 'fairer world' international policy and similar proposals for other economic sectors, Britain should NOT become totally self-sufficient in energy, so 10% of UK energy needs should be met from non-domestic sources (or supplied by foreign companies or governments).



Await The Arrival of The Next-Generation Means of Efficient Large-Scale Energy Production Before Committing Taxpayers Money To the Huge Infrastructure Costs Associated With A New Technology

Rather than commit £billions of taxpayers money to under-developed and inefficient technologies — such as wind turbines, wave and ocean current electricity generation — our approach will be to wait for the next genuine advance in energy-production technology. With increasing resources being invested by governments across the globe and several technologies already beginning to show significant promise (e.g. hydrogen-cell technology in particular and to a lesser extent nuclear fusion), large-scale, safe and commercially viable alternative energy production is looking more likely than not within the next 40 years.

Micro-Generation : Favour Energy Technologies Operating At The Level Of Individual Homes and Businesses — Largely Removing The Need For Unsightly and Expensive Transmission Networks

As potential new energy technologies emerge, we will favour those offering the real possibility of cost-effective micro-generation at the level of individual homes and businesses. This would represent a major advance as it would make possible the removal of most of the truly massive existing transmission infrastructure that is both unsightly and an expensive maintenance nightmare. A policy of micro-generation — or even just a policy of more local supply — would also make the nation's power infrastructure significantly more resilient to large-scale power outages and less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Public Ownership Of All Energy Production and Transmission Infrastructure

The energy transmission network of substations, pylons etc should all be publicly owned — to avoid private companies having to be awarded 30 year contracts etc in order to recoup a return on their huge initial investment. Due to the large sums involved, this policy will probably need to be pursued in stages over the very long term. The open market in energy production will also be abolished and, as in other sectors, 90% of energy production will be reserved for UK energy companies.


However, whilst the essential national infrastructure associated with NEW energy production technology will be publicly-owned, we will not waste taxpayers money re-acquiring EXISTING energy production capability associated with the soon-to-be-obsolete oil, gas and nuclear technologies.