Telegraph
"The problem is made worse by the fact that Britain's targets are more stretching than those of any other country. In one of his last acts as prime minister, Tony Blair defied his official advice and signed up to them, in order to prove how virtuous he was. The estimated bill for that man's moral vanity is a capital cost of £100 billion by the end of the decade.
It also means that we are now, from an energy point of view, the worst country in the world in which to invest. We're not even helping to develop inventive technologies designed to reduce emissions because we are putting so many of our eggs in the frail basket of renewables. We dither over nuclear. We pooh-pooh shale gas. The other day, flying over the English Channel, I noticed offshore wind farms in the waters below. They looked, with their rows of white crosses, like military cemeteries. Mr Blair and his successors are giving the British economy a burial at sea."
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