A lesson in the fine art of the use of investigative committees as strategy. Our Nu Labour Lords and Masters want to move us away from fossil fuel based electricity generation. OK, but how do they do this without considering nuclear, something which even James Lovelock (he of the Gaia theory), Moonbat himself and just about every rational commenter agree would have to be part of the solution? For nuclear cannot be allowed to be part of the solution given half the Labour Party’s instinctive rejection of it? Answer, set up a committee to study waste disposal options:

A Government committee has been given the task of
looking at options, including firing nuclear waste into space,
transmuting it into some other substance and introducing it under the
Earth’s tectonic plates.
The committee is due to report to ministers some time next year.
Afterwards,
a whole new process of designing, finding a site and applying for
permission for a facility has to take place. As a result, it could take
up to 30 years for a facility to be built.

Why is this a bad idea?

Prof Neil Chapman, of Sheffield University, said he found it
"astonishing that a committee is set up with a remit of looking at
things which were ruled out decades ago".

So, there you have it, if there is a decision that has to be taken, but you know you won’t like the decision you have to take, set up a committee to study the problem, make sure it delays the decision for a few years and you have your political solution.
Such pandering to the anti-nuclear nitwits does have its problems of course. 20% of UK generation capacity is coming to the end of its natural life and will have to be replaced with something. Windmills won’t do it, coal, gas and oil are all fossil, solar isn’t ready and wave power won’t cover it either. But nevermind the risk of blackouts in the decades to come. You’ve solved a current political problem which is what you want isn’t it?
And people wonder why I don’t like politicians.