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Carbon and the JEC
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From Jon Scott.
THE JEC cannot have it both ways. In October 2008 it announced a 24% increase ‘due to strongly rising global energy costs . . .’, yet – as if by magic – somehow the consumption of European grid electricity isn’t relative to that of fossil fuels.
The reason the cost of our so-called ‘clean’ electricity increased is because it competes with fossil fuels on that grid and (as does uranium) on commodity markets. Thus our electricity consumption is probably as relative to carbon emissions as anyone else’s. In general, by using more of it we create more demand on fossil fuels.
The trouble – for Environment – in accepting this is that it is a setback for our Kyoto Protocol undertakings. The convenient myth that Jersey has reduced emissions by nearly 36% since 1990 simply by connecting to France made our targets a walk in the equally tangible Town Park.
Not only that, a recent JEC advert in the JEP featured a graph which appeared misleading since the orientation of the letters suggest the – as yet unknown – costs of their competitors will rise. Maybe it is Jersey Gas who should be complaining to Advertising Standards instead.
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