Lack of infrastructure investment could leave Britain in the dark

the Telegraph

Friday, 9 September 2011

Britain faces a very real chance that the lights could go out in the next five to 10 years, as its ailing energy infrastructure struggles to attract the massive investment needed to ensure a reliable electricity supply, according to a warning by the CBI.

Companies named the potential absence of a secure, affordable energy supply as their biggest concern in a damning report published today by the employers' organisation and KPMG.

The report also finds that the UK's road and rail systems are falling further behind the EU average, while 58 per cent of respondents said that, overall, the country's infrastructure is more expensive, less reliable and inferior to that of the Continent.

It notes a clear deterioration in many aspects of Britain's infrastructure in the past five years, with potentially serious consequences for the economy.

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But the lights are already going out in Southern California...

Massive Power Outage Hits US States Of California, Arizona, Mexico

RTT News

9 September, 2011

A massive power outage left more than five million people without electricity in parts of the U.S. states of California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, causing traffic snarls and forcing California's two nuclear reactors to shut down, reports said.

The disruption in power supply triggered traffic jams on the Southern California freeways, hit water supplies in parts of San Diego county and Tijuana and brought great inconvenience to the residents sending some elderly people to emergency rooms.

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