On Saturday 1st November 2008 Arthur Scargill gave the following
presentation to a Climate Change conference in Newcastle.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PROPONENTS OF NUCLEAR POWER AND THE GOVERNMENT ALL REFER
TO CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THE PROBLEM IS GLOBAL WARMING.
THE EARTH HAS WITNESSED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS AND HAS
INCLUDED DROUGHTS, AN ICE AGE AND DRAMATIC CHANGES WHICH ARE NATURAL
PHENOMENA. GLOBAL WARMING HAS, OF COURSE, AN EFFECT ON THE CLIMATE BUT AN
EFFECT WHICH SHOULD BE VIEWED IN CONTEXT.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARGUE THAT THE ANSWER TO GLOBAL WARMING IS TO STOP THE USE
OF COAL AND RELY INSTEAD ON RENEWABLE ENERGY. THEY ARE EITHER UNAWARE OR
CONVENIENTLY IGNORE THE FACT THAT 92% OF CO2 IN THE UK IS PRODUCED NOT BY
COAL BUT BY OIL, GAS AND DEFORESTATION.
WE ARE FACING AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS ON A SCALE SIMILAR TO THE
WALL STREET CRASH IN 1929 AND THE MASS UNEMPLOYMENT WHICH AFFECTED THE UK
AND EUROPE IN THE NINETEEN THIRTIES.
OVER 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN BRITAIN ARE “LIVING” ON OR BELOW THE POVERTY LINE
WHILST OVER 1 MILLION CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH FOOD AND ARE CATEGORISED
AS “GOING HUNGRY”. OVER 11/2 MILLION PEOPLE ARE ON HOUSING WAITING LISTS AT
A TIME WHEN THOUSANDS OF PROPERTIES STAND EMPTY AND THREE-QUARTERS OF A
MILLION BUILDING WORKERS ARE UNEMPLOYED.
ENERGY AND FOOD COSTS HAVE ROCKETED AND PEOPLE TODAY ARE PAYING OVER 300%
MORE FOR ENERGY AND 80% MORE FOR FOOD THAN TWO YEARS AGO.
WE ARE FACING A MONUMENTAL ENERGY CRISIS WITH THE UK’S NATURAL GAS SUPPLIES
VIRTUALLY EXHAUSTED, ITS INDIGENOUS OIL SUPPLIES ARE NEARING EXHAUSTION YET
WE LIVE ON AN ISLAND WITH OVER ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF COAL FROM WHICH WE CAN
EXTRACT ALL THE OIL, GAS, ELECTRICITY AND PETROCHEMICALS THAT WE NEED
WITHOUT CAUSING HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
BRITAIN HAS NEVER HAD AN INTEGRATED ENERGY POLICY AND AS A CONSEQUENCE WE
ARE NOW FACING THE WORST ENERGY CRISIS IN OUR HISTORY.
SINCE THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, BOTH LABOUR AND TORY GOVERNMENTS HAVE
SOUGHT TO REPLACE BRITAIN’S VAST COAL RESERVES – OVER ONE THOUSAND YEARS’
SUPPLY OF DEEP MINE COAL – WITH FALSE PROMISES OF “CHEAP” IMPORTED OIL -
“CHEAP SAFE” NUCLEAR ENERGY AND “CHEAP” NATURAL GAS.
THESE POLICIES HAVE NOT ONLY COST THE BRITISH PEOPLE BILLIONS OF POUNDS BUT
HAVE RESULTED IN THE NEAR-EXTINCTION OF BRITAIN’S DEEP MINE COAL INDUSTRY
AND BROUGHT ABOUT MASSIVE ECONOMIC, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS.
HAVING SEEN THE CLOSURE OF 200 PITS SINCE 1980 AND THE LOSS OF 200,000 JOBS,
THE CLOSURE OR NON-OPERATION OF NEARLY 70% OF COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS ON
THE FALSE PREMISE THAT THEY WERE UNECONOMIC AND A MAJOR POLLUTER OF CO2, IT
WOULD BE REASONABLE TO EXPECT THAT THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A DRAMATIC FALL IN
CO2 EMISSIONS. IN FACT, CO2 EMISSIONS HAVE INCREASED SINCE 1993.
FOLLOWING THE SHORTSIGHTED POLICY OF THE DASH FOR GAS WHICH RESULTED IN
FURTHER PIT CLOSURES AND A SWITCH FROM COAL TO GAS-FIRED POWER STATIONS IT
WOULD – IF THE ENVIRONMENTALST AND NUCLEAR LOBBY WERE RIGHT – HAVE RESULTED
IN A SUBSTANTIAL DECREASE IN CO2 EMISSIONS – THE VERY OPPOSITE IS THE CASE.
IN 1993, TOTAL CO2 EMISSIONS BY SOURCE WERE:-
YEAR 1993
OIL
208.5 MILLION TONNES
COAL AND OTHER SOLID FUELS
206.1 MILLION TONNES
GAS
134.2 MILLION TONNES
NON-FUEL
18.3 MILLION TONNES
TOTAL
567.1 MILLION TONNES
Fig 1
BY 2007, THE POSITION HAD CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY, I.E.
YEAR 2007
GAS
194 MILLION TONNES
OIL
185 MILLION TONNES
COAL AND OTHER SOLID FUELS
150 MILLION TONNES
NON-FUEL
15 MILLION TONNES
TOTAL
544 MILLION TONNES
Fig 2
THESE FIGURES, HOWEVER, ARE NOT ONLY MISLEADING BUT UNTRUE. ACCORDING TO
THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE, CO2 EMISIONS ARE UNDERSTATED BY 189 MILLION
TONNES, NOT SURPRISING IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS
DELIBERATELY OMITTED CO2 EMISSIONS FROM AVIATION, SHIPPING AND
DEFORESTATION. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE STATISTICS BY THE NATIONAL AUDIT
OFFICE, A MORE ACCURATE PICTURE EMERGES:-
YEAR 2007
OIL
374 MILLION TONNES
GAS
194 MILLION TONNES
COAL AND OTHER SOLID FUELS
150 MILLION TONNES
NON-FUEL – DEFORESTATION
15 MILLION TONNES
TOTAL
733 MILLION TONNES
Fig 3
IN SIMPLE TERMS, OIL, GAS AND DEFORESTATION NOW PRODUCE 80% OF ALL CO2
EMISSIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. FIGURES DON’T LIE BUT LIARS CAN FIGURE,
AT LEAST THAT’S THE CONCLUSION ONE MUST COME TO WHEN COMPARING THE NATIONAL
AUDIT OFFICE CALCULATIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT’S INACCURATE STATISTICS AND
MISLEADING STATEMENTS.
AT THE PRESENT TIME, RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCES ONLY 5% OF BRITAIN’S ENERGY
NEEDS YET ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THE UK MUST STOP USING
COAL – WHICH PRODUCES ONLY 20% CO2 IN THE UK AND 2% OF CO2 EMISSIONS
WORLDWIDE.
SOME ENVIRONMENTALISTS EVEN SAY IT MAY NOW BE NECESSARY TO ACCEPT NUCLEAR
ENERGY, IGNORING THE FACT THAT NUCLEAR ENERGY ONLY GENERATES ELECTRICITY AND
IS OF NO USE FOR OTHER INDUSTRIAL OR DOMESTIC USE.
I WAS CHAIRMAN OF ENERGY 2000, AN ORGANISATION ESTABLISHED IN 1977,
SUPPORTED BY THE NUM, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, GREENPEACE AND ALL THE
ANTI-NUCLEAR GROUPS.
ENERGY 2000 PRESENTED EVIDENCE AT THE WINDSCALE, SIZEWELL AND HINCKLEY POINT
PUBLIC ENQUIRIES, PUTTING A POWERFUL CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER.
ENERGY 2000 AND ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS CAMPAIGNED IN THE 1970s AND
1980s FOR AN INTEGRATED ENERGY POLICY BASED ON UK DEEP MINE CLEAN COAL AND
RENEWABLE ENERGIES SUCH AS WIND, WAVE, TIDE, BARRAGE, HYDRO, GEOTHERMAL AND
SOLAR POWER TOGETHER WITH INSULATION AND CONSERVATION.
THE DISASTERS AT THREE-MILE ISLAND IN 1979 AND CHERNOBYL IN 1986 WHICH WILL
RESULT IN THOUSANDS OF DEATHS OVER A 30 TO 40 YEAR PERIOD, DEMONSTRATED THAT
OUR POLICY WAS RIGHT.
BASED ON THE EVIDENCE OF DR ROBERT GALE, THE CANCER EXPERT, WHO TREATED
VICTIMS IN CHERNOBYL, IT IS PROJECTED THAT THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER ALONE WILL
RESULT IN OVER 100,000 DEATHS.
THESE FIGURES ONLY RELATE TO ONE DISASTER AND NOT TO THE CONTINUED RADIATION
CONTAMINATION BOTH WITHIN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND IN AND AROUND NUCLEAR
PLANTS.
EVIDENCE PRESENTED BY EXPERTS SUCH AS Dr ALICE STEWART AND DR ROSIE BERTELL
SHOWS AN INCREASED DEATH RATE FROM LEUKAEMIA AND CANCER IN AND AROUND
NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS 10% HIGHER THAN IN THE GENERAL POPULATION.
ON 13 DECEMBER 1986, DR KENNETH DUNCAN, FORMER HEAD OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY
COMMISSION’S EMPLOYMENT MEDICAL ADVISORY SERVICE AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
THE NATIONAL RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION BOARD ADMITTED THAT IF A NUCLEAR
ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN THE UK WITH A 100 PER CENT RELEASE OF CORE CONTENTS, IT
COULD RESULT IN UP TO 2 MILLION DEATHS (TUC REPORT, 23 JANUARY 1987).
THE CONSTRUCTION, RUNNING COSTS AND DECOMMISSIONING COSTS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
ARE HORRENDOUS – THE CURRENT ESTIMATE FOR DECOMMISSIONING EXISTING NUCLEAR
POWER STATIONS IN BRITAIN IS £73 BILLION. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS SELECT
COMMITTEE IN 1989 REPORTED THAT THE REAL COST OF AGR AND PWR NUCLEAR POWER
STATIONS WOULD BE 400% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ELECTRICITY FROM A COAL-FIRED
POWER STATION.
BRITAIN NEEDS AN INTEGRATED ENERGY POLICY, BASED ON INDIGENOUS DEEP MINE
COAL AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SUCH AS WIND, WAVE, TIDE, BARRAGE, HYDRO,
GEOTHERMAL AND SOLAR POWER, A POLICY FREE FROM UNILATERAL PRICE INCREASES OR
THE INTERRUPTION OR ENDING OF SUPPLY.
CARBON CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY DOES EXIST AND WE CAN – WITH THE PROPER
INVESTMENT – UTILISE UK DEEP MINE COAL IN A WAY WHICH WILL RESULT IN A
REDUCTION OF 90% OF CO2 EMISSIONS.
CURRENTLY THE UK’S ENERGY NEEDS ARE MET BY OIL, GAS AND COAL. HOWEVER, THE
UK IS ALREADY A NET IMPORTER OF OIL, GAS AND COAL AND BY 2020 IMPORTS OF
OIL, UNCONVENTIONAL OILS SUCH AS SHALE OIL, TAR SAND AND GAS WILL – UNLESS
THE GOVERNMENT IS STOPPED – ACCOUNT FOR 80% OF THE UK’S ENERGY NEEDS.
THIS POSITION IS UNACCEPTABLE BOTH IN TERMS OF GUARANTEE OF SUPPLY AND THE
MASSIVE COSTS TO BRITAIN’S BALANCE OF PAYMENTS WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE MET BY
THE CONSUMER WHO ARE CURRENTLY PAYING 300% MORE FOR GAS AND OIL, AT A TIME
WHEN OIL COMPANIES SUCH AS BP AND ROYAL DUTCH SHELL ARE RECORDING PROFITS OF
£6.4 AND £6.6 BILLION RESPECTIVELY FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2008.
UNLESS THERE IS A DRAMATIC POLICY CHANGE, WE WILL SEE THE UK HAVE AN ENERGY
POLICY BASED ON OIL AND GAS IMPORTS AND EXPENSIVE AND HIGHLY DANGEROUS
NUCLEAR POWER WHICH USES URANIUM AS A PRIMARY FUEL, A FINITE ENERGY SOURCE
WHICH WILL BE EXHAUSTED WITHIN 50 YEARS.
DR KENNETH DUNCAN CONFIRMED TO THE TUC IN 1986 THAT LUNG CANCER RATES AMONG
URANIUM MINERS WAS 3 TO 5 TIMES HIGHER THAN IN THE GENERAL POPULATION AND IF
URANIUM MINERS IN NAMIBIA WERE INCLUDED, IT WAS MUCH HIGHER.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND ECO-WARRIORS HAVE BEEN HIGHLY VISIBLE IN THEIR
OPPOSITION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATION AT
KINGSNORTH AND THE DRAX POWER STATION IN WEST YORKSHIRE.
YET THEY HAVE BEEN CONSPICUOUS BY THEIR ABSENCE IN THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP
OPEN-CAST COALMINING WHICH PRODUCES 54% OF THE UK’S INDIGENOUS COAL AND
ACCOUNTS FOR NOT ONLY CO2 EMISSIONS AT SOURCE BUT FOR MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF
METHANE, A GAS 23 TIMES MORE POTENT AND DAMAGING TO GLOBAL WARMING THAN CO2.
THERE HAS BEEN A SYSTEMATIC CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDIGENOUS DEEP MINE COAL
PRODUCTION SINCE THE MINERS INFLICTED MASSIVE DEFEAT ON THE TORY GOVERNMENT
IN 1972 AND 1974, A POLICY WHICH HAS SEEN THE CLOSURE OF OVER 200 PITS.
THE UK CURRENTLY USES NEARLY 63 MILLION TONNES OF COAL PER YEAR, OF WHICH 44
MILLION TONNES ARE IMPORTED AND 9 MILLION TONNES ARE PRODUCED BY HIGHLY
POLLUTING OPEN-CAST SITES. IN OTHER WORDS, 85% OF BRITAIN’S COAL SUPPLY
EMANATES FROM IMPORTS OR OPEN-CAST SITES WHILST ONLY 15% IS PRODUCED IN
BRITISH DEEP MINES.
THE REASON FOR THIS POLICY IS CLEAR FROM THE SECRET CABINET MINUTE LEAKED ON
23 OCTOBER 1979 WHICH STATED – “A NUCLEAR PROGRAMME WOULD HAVE THE ADVANTAGE
OF REMOVING A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF ELECTRICITY FROM DISRUPTION BY
INDUSTRIAL ACTION OF COAL MINERS AND TRANSPORT WORKERS”
THIS EXPLAINS WHY THE TORY GOVERNMENT WAS DETERMINED TO CLOSE BRITAIN’S DEEP
MINE COAL INDUSTRY. IT ALSO EXPLAINS WHY THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT HAS REFUSED
TO HONOUR ITS UNDERTAKING TO THE NUM TO RE-OPEN PITS CLOSED BETWEEN 1984 AND
1997 AND DEVELOP NEW MINES AND COALFIELDS IN LINE WITH THE 1974 PLAN FOR
COAL.
THE PLAN FOR COAL WAS DESIGNED TO PROTECT BRITAIN FROM AN ENERGY CRISIS. IT
WAS A PLAN WHICH WOULD HAVE AMELIORATED THE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS WHICH IS
PLUNGING THE UK INTO ECONOMIC CHAOS.
WE HAVE SEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMBINED CYCLE GAS TURBINE (CCGT) TECHNOLOGY
IN GAS-FIRED POWER STATIONS, YET THERE HAS BEEN NO REAL ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE
AN INTEGRATED GASIFICATION COMBINED CYCLE (IGCC) IN COAL-FIRED POWER
STATIONS.
IN ADDITION, WHILST GAS AND NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS ARE RUN ON BASE LOAD,
COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS HAVE BEEN USED ON PEAK TIME. THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT THE UK’S 18 COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS COULD ALL BE FITTED WITH CARBON
CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY AND WHILST THE CRITICS CLAIM THAT THIS TECHNOLOGY IS NOT
YET FULLY DEVELOPED, THE GOVERNMENT IN 2003 REPORTED THAT A SMALL SCALE
CARBON CAPTURE SCHEME WAS SUCCESSFULLY OPERATING IN THE USA WHICH REMOVED
90% OF CO2 EMISSIONS.
WE HAVE SEEN THIS YEAR THE DEVELOPMENT AT THE ENEL’S TORRE POWER STATION IN
ITALY A NEW “CLEAN” COAL-FIRED POWER STATION – WITHOUT CARBON CAPTURE -
WHICH HAS REDUCED CO2 EMISSIONS BY 20%!
ENEL’S TORRE STATION IS A 660 MW POWER STATION, PREVIOUSLY OIL-FIRED, WHICH
PRODUCED 2,485,980 TONNES OF CO2, 456,608 TONNES MORE THAN THE UK GAS-FIRED
POWER STATION AT BALLYLUMFORD C, A 616 MW STATION WHICH IN 2007 EMITTED
2,029,372 TONNES OF CO2.
THE ENEL’S TORRE NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATION IS NOW PRODUCING 1,988,784
TONNES OF CO2 OR 40,588 TONNES LESS THAN THE 2,029.372 TONNES AT THE
GAS-FIRED POWER STATION AT BALLYLUMFORD C.
THE TECHNOLOGY IN ITALY WAS DEVELOPED WITHIN THREE YEARS, DEMONSTRATING THAT
IT IS POSSIBLE – EVEN WITHOUT CARBON CAPTURE – FOR MODERN COAL-FIRED POWER
STATIONS TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS TO BELOW THE LEVEL OF A COMBINED GAS CYCLE
POWER STATION.
CARBON CAPTURE WOULD RESULT IN THE UK’S EXISTING COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS
REDUCING ANNUAL CO2 EMISSIONS TO 10,872,720 TONNES PER YEAR, A 90%
REDUCTION.
UNTIL THE 1970s BRITAIN PRODUCED ALL ITS GAS FROM UK DEEP MINE COAL AND CAN
PRODUCE ALL THE OIL, GAS AND PETROCHEMICALS WE NEED AND THIS INDIGENOUS
SOURCE HAS RESERVES OF WELL OVER A THOUSAND YEARS.
AN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT POLICY FOR THE UK
THE UK NEEDS AN INTEGRATED ENERGY POLICY WHICH WILL PRODUCE 250 MILLION
TONNES OF INDIGENOUS DEEP MINE CLEAN COAL PER YEAR – COAL – FROM WHICH COULD
BE EXTRACTED ALL THE ELECTRICITY, OIL, GAS AND PETROCHEMICALS THAT THE
PEOPLE OF OUR NATION NEED.
ALL EXISTING AND NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS SHOULD BE FITTED WITH CLEAN
COAL TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING CARBON CAPTURE WHICH WOULD REMOVE 90% OF CO2, AT
THE SAME TIME WE SHOULD BE DEVELOPING A MASSIVE RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY
BASED ON WIND, WAVE, TIDE, BARRAGE, HYDRO, GEOTHERMAL, SOLAR POWER,
INSULATION AND CONSERVATION.
WE MUST END THE IMPORT OF COAL, CURRENTLY 43 MILLION TONNES, WHICH IS
PRODUCED BY SUBSIDIES, “SLAVE LABOUR” AND CHILD LABOUR, AND END THE IMPORT
OF SHALE OIL, TAR SAND AND OTHER SO-CALLED “UNCONVENTIONAL OILS” WHICH ARE
THE DIRTIEST FUELS ON THE PLANET YET ARE BEING USED AT POWER STATIONS SUCH
AS DRAX TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY.
WE MUST END OPEN-CAST MINING WHICH IS NOT ONLY A BLIGHT ON THE LANDSCAPE BUT
PRODUCES ONE-THIRD MORE CO2 THAN DEEP MINE COAL.
WE MUST END IMPORTS OF GAS AND INSTEAD PRODUCE OUR OWN GAS – AS WE DID UNTIL
THE 1970s – FROM UK INDIGENOUS DEEP MINE COAL.
WE MUST STOP IMPORTING OIL AND INSTEAD PRODUCE OUR OWN OIL FROM UK DEEP MINE
COAL.
WE NEED AN END TO ALL NUCLEAR POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATION, THE MOST
DANGEROUS AND UNECONOMIC METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRICITY.
THE DEATHS AND DISEASE CONNECTED WITH NUCLEAR ENERGY ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION
INCLUDING URANIUM MINING, RADIATION AND DISASTERS SUCH AS WINDSCALE, THREE
MILE ISLAND AND CHERNOBYL SHOULD IN THEMSELVES BE SUFFICIENT TO CONVINCE
ANYONE THAT THIS NUCLEAR MADNESS SHOULD BE PHASED OUT IMMEDIATELY.
WE NEED TO END DEFORESTATION – WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF 20% OF CO2 EMISSIONS
WORLD-WIDE AND ACCOUNTS FOR 15% OF CO2 IN THE UK – AND END BIO-FUEL
DEVELOPMENT – WHICH NOT ONLY PRODUCES SUBSTANTIAL CO2 EMISSIONS BUT CAUSES
MASS STARVATION AND HIGHER FOOD PRICES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
WE NEED AN ENVIRONMENT POLICY WHICH WILL REDUCE EMISSIONS OF CO2, METHANE,
CHLORO FLUORO CARBONS (CFCs), NITROGEN OXIDE (NOX), NITROUS OXIDE (N2O),
OZONE (O3), SULPHUR DIOXIDE (SO2) AND STOP DEFORESTATION.
WE NEED TO REMOVE FROM OUR ROADS THE JUGGERNAUTS AND AS MANY VEHICLES AS
POSSIBLE AND INSTEAD CONSTRUCT A MODERN ELECTRIC RAIL SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH
TRAMS IN OUR TOWNS AND CITIES WHICH WOULD REDUCE CO2 AND OTHER GAS EMISSIONS
BY BETWEEN 15% AND 20%.
CONCLUSION
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE MEASURES TOGETHER WITH AN INTEGRATED ENERGY
POLICY BASED ON CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY CAN PLAY A
LEADING PART IN HELPING REDUCE RISING SEA LEVELS.
WE MUST BEGIN TO DESALINATE SEA WATER ON A MASS SCALE AND PROVIDE CLEAN
WATER TO THOSE PARTS OF THE WORLD WHICH ARE CURRENTLY BEING SUBJECTED TO
DROUGHTS WHICH HAVE TURNED THEIR LAND INTO DUST-BOWLS, RESULTING IN
THOUSANDS OF DEATHS.
THE USE OF SEA WATER IN THIS WAY WILL REDUCE THE RISE IN SEA LEVELS
DRAMATICALLY AND MAKE THE DESERTS BLOOM AND PROVIDE MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS
WITH THE BASIC NECESSITIES OF LIFE.
WE NEED A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING AND ENERGY
TO ENSURE THAT THEIR LIVES AND THOSE OF THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN ARE
EQUAL TO THE STANDARD THAT WE IN THE WEST HAVE ENJOYED FOR THE PAST 50
YEARS.
IF WE DO THAT, THEN WE CAN NOT ONLY CLAIM TO HAVE PRODUCED A SENSIBLE
INTEGRATED ENERGY POLICY BUT ALSO AN ENVIRONMENT POLICY WHICH WILL HELP
TRANSFORM THE PLANET ON WHICH WE LIVE.
ARTHUR SCARGILL
