Greenwash!

The establishment continues to trip over itself in it's desperation to paint the LNG pipeline project as being of some benefit to the rest of us.

So after ripping up half the Welsh countryside, damaging an internationally recognized Geopark, polluting an SAC in Milford Haven waterway, and, oh, by the way, locking us into a mode of energy generation that is destabilising our climate, it was almost inevitable that National Grid's pet project would receive some kind of green award.

Presenting this award, the Chair of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Martin Evans, gushed; "To me, the important part was the installation of the pipeline so that none of the LNG that’s being imported had to be transported by road."

I mean, the fact that the Stern report points out that gas transmission is one of the most carbon intensive sectors of the economy, and the fact that the gas has to be be liquified and transported halfway across the world in giant ships is really just nitpicking isn't it?