Letter to Yorkshire Post on CO2 Pipeline Proposal
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Dear Sir,
If it is ever realised, the plan to build a pipeline across Yorkshire that will send CO2 from our industries under the North Sea will cost £hundreds of millions, possibly billions. Meanwhile, businesses are closing. Jobs are being lost. The elderly and young working families cannot afford their bills.
Whether or not you agree with me that climate change is so much hooey, you must nonetheless agree that sensible priorities should inform policy-making. Our immediate problems are caused not by climate change, but climate change policies.
The pipeline's advocates say it will create jobs. Nonsense. Making energy more expensive cannot create opportunities; it only destroys them by taking money out of the productive economy. It puts hard-earned cash into the pockets of those who have befriended environmental bureaucrats and government ministers.One way we could reduce costs and create jobs at no public expense is by allowing the exploration of the shale gas fields across the North of England. But two almost imperceptible tremors have held up progress for an entire year. The rising costs of energy are far more dangerous to the people of Yorkshire than climate change or earthquakes. This pipeline plan should be scrapped, alongside the UK's dangerous and expensive climate change and energy policies.
Yours faithfully
Godfrey Bloom MEP Environment Committee in the European Parliament
