Norway’s Threat to Cut Off the UK Leaves Labour’s Net Zero Plans in Tatters

 As Norway threatens to cut off the UK from electricity at times of low wind speeds, it’s a sign of a growing energy nationalism globally that leaves Labour’s short-sighted Net Zero plans in tatters, says Andy Mayer in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.

Norway’s Government, whose coalition ended this week, is not the first to collapse over bad energy policies linked to mad climate politics. … It may, however, be even more consequential for the UK.

The politics of the collapse are quite dull, but echo growing global alarm over high prices linked to the high cost of a low-carbon transition.

The populist Eurosceptic Centre Party (and others on the Right) object to Norwegians paying more for their domestic power due to demand for their hydropower reserves abroad. They particularly object to EU Directives that would undermine their domestic sovereignty to withhold those reserves for their own use, or to shield them from an energy crisis. They take issue with the poor energy decisions made by their neighbours (especially Germany) which have inflamed the problem.

This leaves the pro-green, pro-EU Norwegian Labour party solely in charge, but with no working majority and a General Election no later than September, which on current polls is likely to favour a nationalist populist coalition....<<<Read More>>>...