Former UK Energy Minister Calls for National Energy Policy Review

Britain’s current energy policy is “ripe for review” and should be a major issue in the General Election campaign, former Energy Minister Brian Wilson will tell a conference in Edinburgh on Monday, 25 April.

With North Sea oil and gas production now in decline and Britain set to become a net importer in the next few years, he will call for “a balanced and, as far as possible, indigenous energy future” that embraces a range of energy alternatives and conservation.

“It is not necessary to be alarmist or even pessimistic to accept, and then advocate action on the basis of, the basic point which underlies the Peak Oil thesis
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