John Riseley, Harrogate. Yorkshire Post.
THE Redcar steelworks has had to bear electricity costs inflated by the
statutory requirement to include renewable sources. A substantial body of world
officialdom assures us that such measures are imperative to save us from global
warming (The Yorkshire Post, October 13). We may or may not believe them; they
have shown that their ethos is more that of the “noble lie” than of truth
seeking. Yet either way it is hard to see the
benefit of switching steel production to plants in countries which may produce
the same, or indeed greater, emissions and which bizarrely may have
been subsidised by ourselves under carbon offset
arrangements.The cost of environmental protection should
not be borne by industries which serve global markets and face global
competitors, many of whom are unhampered by such responsibility. It should rest
squarely upon the consumer. Only we have the authority to judge whether we can
afford the luxury of politicians whose egos drive them to assume a position of
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