So a load of people got arrested for various alleged criminal activities outside (and inside) Drax Power station in Yorkshire. See story here
They were campaigning for its closure in favour of renewable forms of energy.
Fair enough, just one quick pointer though. Right now it is active for a reason, and it's not just to pump pollutants into the atmosphere!!! The good people of Yorkshire (and the majority after that) want a brew this afternoon and you are trying to stop them, hell hath no fury like a Yorkshireman scorned!
One protester was quoted as saying,
"Shutting down a power station isn't enough to stop climate change but it's a start."
Now I don't want to piss on anyone's parade, but that power station wasn't just powering the "planet trashing economic growth" that they claimed that Drax stood for, it is also powering many hospitals, police, fire and ambulance systems, coastguard communication systems........ would you like me to go on?
So we shut down Drax, then what? Simple we power up the nuclear plants to overload, what a good idea - well thought out!!!
I understand and agree that we need many more renewable sources of energy in this world and that the government's foot dragging and incompetence is delaying the system and coming up with the wrong answers, but reacting in this way is nothing short of murderous!
Environmentalism CANNOT come at all costs!
