Will gas imports be the UK's Achilles' Heel?

摘要

Far from prompting serious debate, the media hysteria that greeted last year's blackouts, has perhaps damaged the possibilities of having a sensible discussion about security of supply issues facing the UK. A handful of ubiquitous rent a quote 'experts,'perhaps with their own hidden agendas, have managed to confuse and obscure the real issues facing the country. In the following article Professor John H Gittus asserts that the UK has one of the highest levels of security of supplies of the G8 countries but that by 2024 an over-reliance on gas imports could place supplies at serious risk.