Factors influencing Energy Security
- Created by: Honor Anne
- Created on: 19-04-13 15:49
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- Factors influencing Energy Security
- Fossil Fuel Supply
- In the UK, Coal as an energy source is declining.
- Polluting
- Coal Mines closed in the 1980s
- Most Coal is now imported
- In the UK, oil use has stayed the same.
- It is mostly used for transport
- North Sea Oil is declining
- We now rely on imports from N Africa and the Middle East
- The use of Gas in the UK has increased
- 'Dash for Gold' in the 1990s, as Gas was cheap and easy
- We now import Gas from Russia and Qatar
- In the UK, Coal as an energy source is declining.
- Foreign Imports
- More dangerous as it gives the other country 'power' e.g Russia
- Foreign Pathways are more likely to be disrupted than Domestic Supplies
- Population increase
- Increased need for energy
- Greater Consumption of convenient Fossil Fuels
- Over-reliance on Fossil Fuels
- Greater Conflict and Shortages
- Fossil Fuel Supply
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