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Originally Posted by Paul
What issue, that who caused  |
The issue of the UK's dependency on global energy prices due to the government allowing UK generating capacity to be closed without replacement capacity. Having said that, I'm not sure that any G7 country is doing particularly well on the energy front. France's nuclear sector is running into countless problems and Germany's dependence on Russian gas is now biting it.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
keeping the coal-fired power stations was not an option.
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Originally Posted by Paul
Of course its an option.
Having no power stations is not an option.  |
You removed the conditional part of my sentence thus rendering its meaning entirely different. The full sentence was:
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
If you agree with Chris's post in the climate change thread, you'll no doubt appreciate why keeping the coal-fired power stations was not an option. But closing them and not replacing that capacity and hoping the market would deliver was a leap of faith too far.
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