Net Zero threatens national security

As the EU shifts its spending priorities from the Net Zero agenda to investing in defence, a prominent expert on national security has called for the UK to go back to coal, oil and gas and to start fracking.

‘These are the only domestic energy sources that do not leave the country’s energy security at the mercy of enemy states’, Professor Gwythian Prins has warned.

Professor Prins, formerly head of the Mackinder Programme at the London School of Economics, and an adviser to NATO and the Ministry of Defence, warns that our lack of secure energy supplies risks leaving us dangerously exposed. 

All offshore energy supplies are vulnerable, and we have insufficient naval power to protect them. Reliance on piped gas from Norway, LNG shipments from America or the Middle East, or the output of rigs and windfarms on our own continental shelf is therefore irresponsible.”

Professor Prins notes that Germany, usually seen as an environmental leader, has already taken the first steps down this road, building super-efficient ‘ultrasupercritical’ coal-fired power stations in response to the deepening energy security crisis and the disaster of their green energy transition.

We must follow Berlin’s lead. If we can’t defend our offshore assets, we must exploit our onshore ones, and that means firm power from coal, oil and gas. But we must move quickly. We need a new seriousness about our energy security situation in Government. New Zero is a luxury belief that we can no longer afford and must jettison quickly.”

Professor Prins’ comments are set out in an article entitled ‘The Net Zero Music Stops’, which is published today by Net Zero Watch.