The newly installed UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero has denied that her Labour government’s policies are pushing up the cost of energy for consumers.
Miatta Fahnbulleh was quizzed on national radio concerning the significant proportion of gas and electricity expenditure that was passed on to ‘green’ industries in the form of Net Zero subsidies. Despite the evidence visible on almost every household bill in the UK, Fahnbulleh burbled:
Well look, I don’t accept that. And this is a really important point to make. The challenge that we have as a government coming in is that investment in our infrastructure—irrespective, by the way, of whether we are on the pathway to Net Zero or not – was not put in for a decade and a half…
I think there is a lot of misinformation in this debate. One of the things that I want to do is just take the heat out so that we can have a sensible conversation. Yes, there are costs. Those costs are a function of the fact that we have not invested in our basic kit for far too long… we are feeling the impacts of heat, and extreme heat. We have got to act…
According to Fahnbulleh, costs to consumers are both rising as a response to previous governments’ lack of investment and not rising thanks to Net Zero subsidies (which purportedly deal with ‘extreme heat’). Two other pieces of the puzzle—the negligible global impact of Net Zero Britain and failure to exploit North Sea gas and oil—are not up for discussion.
This should come as no surprise to observers of Fahnbulleh’s political career, largely conducted in the ideological clownworld of environmentalist think tanks.
